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Originally Posted by ApK
Ah...well, that would be because your instructions didn't TELL me to press Go! 
Indeed, I see what you mean, but that is exactly the same as clicking the magnifying glass at the top, just in a more convenient location.
The success of that work around depends on what word you are looking up, presumably based on how it's indexed..
Type the word "test" and results do indeed appear immediately.
Type the work "research" and it takes a couple extra seconds to appear.
Type the word "pathway" which, as it happens, is the word that inspired this thread when I tried to show my son how to look it up, and it takes forever!
I guess I'll try a dictionary app, but I'm with osnova...this was dumb implementation for for a device with the Kindle name it! |
It took me 68 seconds to search for "pathway." Its true all my other tests were instaneous.
That may be because "pathways" had only ONE instance of being mentioned in the Oxford Dictionary. Still 68 seconds for a rare word still does work. Its highly probable that folks will never even look for that particular word.
It appears that the words to be defined are not indexed. Only the words in the meanings are indexed. Thus, if a word is not mentioned in many meanings, it will take longer to locate it. Its still far better then requiring WiFi access which most of the other dictionaries require. Its also much better than using a large amont of the small disk space up for a mere dictionary.
If you go to Settings \ More \ Application and tap "User Dictionary," you will see it uses only 20 Kb for its database. I doubt if any other dictionary app uses that little.
Frankly, I rarely use a dictionary separate from reading those words in eBooks. Thus, the Kindle version of the Oxford Dictionary is more than ample for my uses. In eBooks locating a dictionary definition is instantaneous.
I use Osnova Bibles on my Kindle Keyboard. However, that is NOT an Android device. Osnova will have to port his indexing strategy over to Android. I get rapid searches and verse location with the Tecarta NIV and the NIV Notes in my Kindle Fire since it is an Android application. Every word is instantly indexed there. I can get to any verse there with just 3 short taps. However, I did search for "pathway" in the Tecarta Bible and it is not present in the NIV both Old and New Testament. It took under 2 seconds for the Tecarta NIV to tell me that.
By the way, the Tecarta Study Bible only uses 22.29 Mb and does not require WiFi for use. The Kindle User Bible (Oxford) also does not require WiFi for use.