- I think Reader might struggle a bit with this, if I’ve read your comment correctly. The app is a reading app, so it does assume you’re doing your reading and annotating inside it. If you add additional notes outside the application, how would it know? And even if it did know there’s no guarantee that the new notes would be in a format that it could use/present correctly? The books you’ve imported to Reader are copies of files you have stored outside Reader, so any changes you make are not reflected across apps.
However, there is an Obsidian plugin that pushes Obsidian notes to Reader for reading and highlighting, which might be of interest?
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I’m a bit confused by this, depending on the book format can you not name it in your preferred format before you import it to Reader? Does Reader have any function to rename files you import? (I’ve not tried.)
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I suspect this would depend on the format of the book you’re reading, but I agree that it would be nice! PDFs have a button in the web browser to navigate a page at a time but it doesn’t work consistently in Safari on iPadOS and at present the same button isn’t available in the app that I’ve noticed.
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Agree! I was thinking about that last night for @ryanjamurphy’s question about PDF readers with rulers (I’m not aware that any exist currently). In the web app Reader puts a blue bar in the left margin of the paragraph you’re reading, but the intention with that is to indicate to those using keyboard navigation where they are in the text. The same function isn’t available in the iOS apps, plus it wasn’t intended to help the reader read. I think I am going to email the devs about a reading ruler though because it’s an accessibility tool and given what they’ve achieved so far I figure that even if it is technologically challenging (I assume that’s why no-one except Kindle has managed it), if anyone can figure it out they will!