METHOD FOR MARKING ELECTRONIC BOOK AND MOBILE TERMINAL

The disclosure provides a method for making a mark in an electronic book and a mobile terminal. In the method, coordinates of a starting point and an ending point that a user has intended to mark are obtained; the coordinates of the starting point and the ending point are transformed to a starting character offset and an ending character offset respectively; characters from a character corresponding to the starting character offset to a character corresponding to the ending character offset are marked in a preset marking manner, the marks are displayed, and the starting character offset and the ending character offset are stored. The method for making a mark in an electronic book and the mobile terminal provided by the disclosure implement the marking function of an electronic book by obtaining and storing a starting character offset and an ending character offset, thereby meeting the marking requirement of a user in using an electronic book and improving the user's experience of usage. Moreover, the disclosure is simple to design and easy to implement.