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Originally Posted by lindemaximilian
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.
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I think you're being a little pessimistic in describing it as "devastating", at least for dictionaries in English. English is a language with relatively little inflection, hence a simple lookup works pretty well. Eg, with the sample dictionary supplied with the Gen3 (which only contains the letter "L"), a lookup of "living" and "lived" both found "live" as the correct dictionary entry.
I would imagine it would work a lot less well for a more heavily inflected language such as German.