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Originally Posted by diamante
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.
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Thank you, diamante (and speedlever and Harry), for explaining this. This is really a feature I'm taking into account when buying a new reader one day.
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Originally Posted by diamante
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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I would have guessed that Bookeen was one of the first companies to make dictionaries work on an eink device
. But of course, they work only on the mobipocket firmware and not on the epub firmware (one of the reasons I'm still using mobi).
The usage is not that comfortable as with the Sony 650 - to make a little understatement -, but the dictionary itself is very good. It is this one:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/...p?BookID=86466
I bought the hardcover version (20 cm thick!); that included both English-German and German-English and the respective mobi-files. Maybe Amazon is offering this dictionary, too, but I haven't checked.