Problems highlighting text

Trying to highlight something in Boox is a constant nightmare.  80% of the time it decides to highlight further text on its own.  

The problem is described here: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/1e5dgbu/anyone_with_problem_highlighting_in_books_after/

Can anything be done to fix this?  This basically makes the device unusable for highlighting.