Thread: best dictionary in an epub reader?
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Old 01-26-2011, 01:14 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Billi View Post
My mobipocket dictionary (Pons on a Gen3) is unable to find words with an em-dash as are the dictionaries inside the Pocketbook 902 (epub). But as this quite often occurs I would be interested to know if there are any dictionaries that could translate both words of such a combination correctly.

Thanks in advance for your help.
I've just checked, and the Kindle will correctly look up words in the dictionary which are separated by an em-dash.

EDIT: The word BEFORE the dash at least. You can't select the word AFTER the dash.
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