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Mobipocket format dictionaries work fine for html files. |
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http://www.etoengineering.com/Pictur...omkeyboard.jpg You simply have a cursor shaped like a frame that you can move around the alphabet with the navigation keys, to 'write' a letter hit whatever key you use to enter things. |
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Concerning the form of the words I did some tests. "humanity's" is not found. "published" gives a menu with "publish" and "publisher" to choose from. If you choose one of them and then press back you return to the menu so you can easily check the other alternatives. "writers" gave me the alternatives "writ[1]", "writ[2], "write", "writing" and "writer".
To get to lookup mode you have to press MENU, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, ENTER and you have to do it every time you want to look up a word. I tested to do a file where you can enter words with four letters. It became a 7M mobipocket file (27M html) and it kind of worked but you had to linerarly choose each letter and it was not so fun to press a button 16 times to choose a "p" for example. |
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Is there any way in the Gen3 to cut off a word either in the beginning or at the end by selecting only a part of it with the check box? If this were possible my problem would be solved. |
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11-06-2007, 03:58 PM | #22 |
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I'm interested in buying a mobipocket dictionary, but not sure wich one would be the best for me. I'm dutch, doing my 1st year english teaching course ( just for secondary grade at the moment) After playing around with the different demo's I think I like the longman dict.contemporary english. It shows the phonetic transcription and I like the definitions. This will be used for reading novels and english,american newspaper articles.
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Having just received my Gen3 I tested the lexicon / dictionary capabilities with the following results:
One knew of course from the specs that there is no possibility to enter words directly. However, the big deception for me was that one cannot browse through a dictionary by using chunks of words because there is no index (i.e. the alphabetical order of words without explanation or translation). In fact, one receives the message: indexes of words are not supported in this version. The implication of this lack of indexes is quite devastating both for (a) using a dictionary as a stand-alone device and (b) for the lookup function of the Gen3. Concerning (a): With an index, it would have been possible to stroll through the words of a particular letter by using the page turn and make a bookmark when a new letter starts. After that you would be able to start your search at a particular bookmark i.e. letter. Each page turn would advance you by some 25 words, that is the number you normally have for the indexes of mobipocket dictionaries. By reducing the font size it would be possible to increase this number, maybe quite significantly, I have not tried it. By contrast, in the current version of the Gen3, there are only 1 to 3 words per page and tabbing your way page by page through the whole volume or just one letter is virtually impossible. Concerning (b): When using the lookup function and the word you have selected is not in its standard form i.e. the infinitive for verbs and the singular masculine nominative for nouns or adjectives the Gen3 is not able to show you any result. If there were an index at least you would be offered a page with some 25 words (or more, see above) which start with the same letters and in 80 per cent of cases (depending on the language and your knowledge of the grammar) you would find the word you are looking for. This said, depending on the quality of the dictionary, there are some non-standard forms for some words supported. However, this is very rare, although this may change in the future; for a discussion of these issues look here . For me the big question thus is, why the indexes of the mobidictionaries are not supported in the Gen3, it would make a difference like night and day. |
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I am following this thread because I have some problem using a Mobipocket dictionary on the Iliad, while I am able to open and to use in the look up function a small dictionary (pons basis Worterbuch english deutsch) a bigger Duden Deutsches Universal worterbucH (29 MB) does not work, I am wondering if it is a matter of size or what, both technical assistances Mobipocket and Iliad I find hopeless
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I suspect the answer as to why the index isn't supported is in the version number. 1.0. I suggest you forward your request to Bookeen so it can be on the rather long list of stuff they still need to do.
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I would imagine it would work a lot less well for a more heavily inflected language such as German. |
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Maybe the word "devastating" is too strong in the abstract; but it holds for me. I like to read books in Italian which I have learned rather late in life; thus my vocabulary is pretty shaky and I have to use the dictionary constantly. The Italian language has at least as many inflections as the German. In addition it allows under certain circumstances to add pronouns at the end of a verb. For instance, you may come across a word like "daglielo", which means "give it to him". To arrive at this translation through a look-up is quite a job. Therefore, willy-nilly, I have to go back to my old Cybook where I can fiddle around with the stylus. |
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I tried to use this principle to enter word up to four letters and it worked but you selected a letter by selecting a link so you had to press a button 26 times to select a letter in the worst case. |
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