I am in agreement with many here. I really miss the ability to look up a word on the fly that I have on my Palm, and the EB-1150.
Here is Amazon CEO Bezos on the reason the Kindle has a look up feature.
Quote:
Portfolio: Every effort at e-books has failed. Why should this one work?
Bezos: We decided we were going to improve upon the book. And the first thing we did was try to determine the essential features of a physical book that we needed to replicate. The No. 1 feature is that it disappears. When you're in the middle of reading, you don’t notice the ink or the glue or the stitching or the paper — all of that disappears, and you're in the author's world. Most electronic devices today do not disappear. Some of them are extraordinarily rude. Books get out of the way, and they leave you in that state of mental flow.
Portfolio: How do you improve on that?
Bezos: We looked at things that physical books could never do. One of them is that you can look up any word that you're reading. It used to be that if I came across a word that I didn't know, I guessed from context. I'm astonished at what a bad guesser I am. Now that I’m looking up the words, I'm like, "Huh. Really?"
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I am not really a bad guesser from the context, but I have been surprised more than once on how wrong I have been.
Wired interview with Bezos found
here.