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Old 04-20-2012, 12:53 PM   #294
valex
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: IL, USA
Device: kindle 3
First of all thank you for the great software!

I have a semi-automated process to convert all my e-books to pdf (formatted to fit Kindle's screen size so that scaling is not required). This way I can have all the typographical niceties (my process is LaTeX-based) of printed books. I have always been irritated at Amazon's pdf viewer for its inability to turn off margins and the stupid progress bar occupying precious screen's real estate. Now I use kindlepdfviewer 100% of the time.

The only feature I miss sometimes is an ability to quickly look up a word in a dictionary. The Kindle's pdf reader shows a pop-up with short translation for a word next to its cursor and pressing "enter" button switches to the full dictionary. Would it be possible to add similar functionality to the kindlepdfviewer? The pop-up is not necessary, just showing the word in the dictionary and switching back to the book would be sufficient. I heard Duokan has something like that but it uses dictionaries in different format.

Alex
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