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Originally Posted by speedlever
You should do a short video of that comparison and post it on YouTube. That's the kind of review that I would find helpful in determining the usefulness of a device under consideration.
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Thanks, speedlever! Hmm, I've never made a YouTube video before...
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Originally Posted by Billi
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.
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Billi, yes, that is an annoying characteristic of Mobipocket (I sometimes still use the Palm OS version). The Kindle retains this behavior in that you cannot move the cursor to the position immediately after an em-dash; the cursor moves word by word and it treats two words separated by an em-dash as a single word (I just realized that speedlever and HarryT have already pointed this out). However, if you highlight the two words and then hit the space bar, a search box pops up in which you can then easily delete everything but the second word before searching the dictionary. It's just a few extra clicks. Em-dashes don't affect dictionary lookup on the Sony; you can double click on either word to get the appropriate definition. This is a point in Sony's favor.
By the way, Billi, can you comment on the quality of the Pons dictionaries? You provided some interesting information; I didn't know whether Mobipocket dictionaries would work at all on a Cybook device.
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Originally Posted by boxcorner
My Sony PRS-650 uses the New Oxford American Dictionary Second Edition © 2005 OUP, Inc. Which edition does your Kindle have?
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My Kindle 2 has the same dictionary.