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Old 01-30-2011, 06:40 PM   #31
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Question Annotations and logs -- and what about the Nook?

A few more comments:

The Kindle allows you to highlight and make annotations in dictionaries as you can in any other e-book. You can't do this on the Sony, but the Sony keeps "logs" of words you look up. It even maintains separate lookup logs for each e-book in addition to each dictionary.

Maybe a Nook fan could jump in and talk about dictionary functionality on the Nooks. I know that the Nooks use Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. If I recall correctly, on the Nooks there is no way to simply open the dictionary and browse; you have to search for a word from within an e-book. When you do that and the Nook takes you to an entry, if it's not what you're looking for there's no way to advance to the next entry or select another from a list. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I also noticed some formatting problems with the dictionary on the Nook Color, i.e. missing spaces, etc. Also, as far as I know you can't install different dictionaries. I have some old eReader dictionaries, but I don't think these will work on a Nook.
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