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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
I'm all in favour of adding new features to the Kobo Touch, and the "Translate" feature is a nice one, but it should be its own separate button on the bottom of the screen. I look up words in the dictionary all the time; I almost never need to translate one. But now the action for looking up has gone from one press to two, because you have to choose every time between "Define" and "Translate." Ugh.
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I wholeheartedly agree on this one!
1.9.10 introduced this extra tap, and it is one annoying tap too much which in fact makes the interface feel clumsy. There is more than enough space for separate, direct-access buttons for "Translate" and "Define". Separate buttons would not make it look cluttered.
I am not a native English speaker, but I read lots of English books, and frequently have to look up verbs and adjectives (for example, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, which I'm reading now, frequently uses a lot of words I did never read before, or I always read over them). I do never translate words but look up their English definition, so the change was pretty noticeable to me.