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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sony could use exactly the same user interface for a dictionary that the Gen3 uses - it has a "lookup mode" which gives you a "word highlight" cursor that you can move up, down, left, right on the screen with the navigation pad. When the word you want to look up is highlighted, you press the "Select" button and you're taken to the word's definition in the dictionary. Works beautifully.
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Hi!
I looked into different solutions for dictionaries as I desperately wanted one for reading Italian books.
I found out:
On Gen3 you have to move cursor 1-10 times up/down plus 1-6 times left/right.
So on average that's (5+3=) 8 moves. (I could not find out whether/how many page changes will happen, yet.)
But: lookup will only find EXACT inflections - the dictionary has to be VERY large - or won't find
anything at all...
In contrast Sony PRS500 can only use PDF-hyperlink-jumping (which Gen3 does NOT).
I made an Italian>English (also an Inglese>Italiano) dictionary that works as follows:
(
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16929)
1. You put the Italian word into your personal cerebral store (=note in mind).
2. Go two levels ("Menu") up from your book (=2 page changes).
3. Type number for the dictionary, then type "2" (=2 page changes).
4. Move cursor to first letter of word (in my simple case 5 moves on average; can be optimized...)
5. On the letter page move cursor 3 moves on average to get to dictionary page.
6. Go to appropriate page in dictionary - maximum of two.
7. Return: repeat step 2. and 3. - but: Italian book, then "1" (=4 page changes).
So added up this means: 8 page changes plus 8 cursor moves (on average!). Both values can be minimized. The size of the dictionary can me minimal as NO inflections are needed!
I don't mean to promote my dictionary, but since last december this PDF was downloaded over 200 times - AND:
the (various) versions of "English>Italian" over
450 times! (...seems there are fewer offers for Italian natives...)
I admit that those "8 page changes" are crucial and a nuisance. Therefore I use my dictionary mostly for "important" or "repeated" or extremely "cryptic" Italian words.