[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by delphin

Look at how the entry you are seeing for the word 'published' is being presented in the Kindle.

I just did so, and it seems to be finding the root word 'publish' instead (at least that's how it looks with the New Oxford American Dictionary).

So Kindle's dictionary does NOT include the proper definition of 'published' as the PAST TENSE of 'publish' but rather shows the root word instead.

You can get precisely the same effect on the Sony when it correctly tells you it hasn't found an exact match, by simply hitting the <- backspace key a few times, which will usually delete the troublesome suffix and get you back to a root word lookup.

I suppose that it would be nice if the Sony did the "this is close as I can get" thing automatically like Kindle, but honestly, I don't find it to be that big of deal.

Now, since I have told you how to get the Sony to do what the Kindle is doing (simply a less precise 'fuzzy' lookup) with a very simple work around, perhaps you can explain how to get the Kindle to match the Sony in a few other areas related to the dictionary?

So please do explain how can I look up a word by simply tapping on it on the Kindle?

Or bring up the dictionary easily from the home screen on the Kindle?

Or how can I see a word-log list of all words that I have recently looked up on the Kindle?

Or how to switch to a French-English, Spanish-English, German-English, or their equally usefully reverse English to foreign language equivalents on the Kindle?

These are all ridiculously easy to do on the Sony, so perhaps you could give me the simple workarounds that let you do the same things on the Kindle?

The easiest one I can think of is to lift up the nearest garbage can lid, insert the Kindle, and buy a Sony, but maybe there is one that I am missing?

Delphin, when one knows better than the dictionary there is no need for them to use it in the first place. And the other dictionaries show it is possible to recognize the correct word. So this means there must be something wrong with the Oxford dictionary that clearly can be done better.