07-22-2009, 10:16 PM | #46 |
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I know I've said this before, but user-selected/purchased dictionary lookup from within the read text (and down the track, encyclopaedia-lookup) is an essential feature for me. Without it, I would abandon ebooks altogether, as other benefits are not of significant enough value to me to abandon pbooks.
As such, I thank Abelturd raising the motion, and then others for seconding, thirding, fourthing...eleventying it, and add my own. |
07-23-2009, 02:46 AM | #47 |
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07-23-2009, 03:39 AM | #48 |
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I find it works pretty well considering the limitations of the device's physical interface. Sure it could be improved to be faster and more user-friendly, but I find it perfectly usable in this implementation.
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07-23-2009, 12:03 PM | #49 |
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I was just in a Fry's and an Asian girl who was interested in improving her English was looking at a few different E-Readers (I was trying to steer her to my beloved 505 ). The killer feature for her was a built in dictionary.
This is a great idea! |
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How about when it presents a list of alternatives? I don't know how to choose the one I want - so it's a lucky dip. Am I doing it wrong? Just went to get an example, using the Chambers dictionary - looking up the word 'male' produces a pop-up window: male male which one do I select? Last edited by Sparrow; 07-23-2009 at 12:17 PM. Reason: Adding example |
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07-23-2009, 12:21 PM | #51 |
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The first one. Then, once you are in the dictionary you can page forward if the first definition does not match the text.
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07-23-2009, 12:28 PM | #52 |
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Sometimes the menu does not have the same word, I guess if you look "lay" up, you'd get to choose between "lay" and "lie", at least... But this is getting |
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07-26-2009, 11:52 AM | #54 |
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I would love to have several dictionary's in ePUB.
Please make it support UTF-8 or other international character sets. Hmmm. Maybe even a couple of encyclopaedias |
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Sony may be having ePub dictionary look-up with the new 600. If so, all that needs be done is for Sony to license their approach to all the other reader makes using ADE and voila.
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08-02-2009, 11:39 AM | #57 |
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08-02-2009, 09:27 PM | #58 |
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These proprietary approaches to incorporating a dictionary (jetBook and Sony?) are fine as a stopgap measure. However, I hope Sony does not license their method to anyone (assuming that the 600 actually has a dictionary). We don't need more Balkanization in ebookdom. What we need is for the IDPF to do something about a standardized method of implementing dictionaries for epub. This has two major advantages over proprietary implementations: it will be an open standard that doesn't require licensing; you won't be limited to a few dictionaries, as everyone would be able to make or sell a compatible dictionary.
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