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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
Maybe something like the Kindle's dictionary function (I seem to recall other readers can do this too, but I've only used the Kindle's) but with pictures, or the option of pictures?
That way the pictures could be in one document and not need to be imported with each new document. Perhaps one could work something like cascading style sheets into it, and have supplementary pictures for specialized vocabulary in new documents, so a reader can pick "Brewster Buffalo" and not have to page past pictures of bison relatives.
I would not mind having pictures available in my reading when I wanted them, but I would find the "show" buttons a bit obtrusive for my tastes. Even the underlining of a hyperlink tends to distract my eye. But the way the K2 handles dictionary lookup (i.e. not, unless requested by the reader) might work well for something like this.
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I read a Terry Pratchett ebook (Unseen Academicals I think) where he used inline footnotes. Click on the footnote and you get taken to a page with only the correct information relating to that footnote. Another click and you were back reading the story.
The only problem was the footnote markers were very small. Of course, some would say THAT was the best part.
PS- Terry Pratchett is a one person vocabulary builder. You definitely want a dictionary. Preferably a UK dictionary.