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Alpha Centauri · 07-24-2012, 07:06 PM

Hi, I'm totally new to e-readers but am considering getting a Sony PRS-T1 as my first one, so I hope someone can help a confused newbie out!

One thing I like about the Sony is the availability of multiple dictionaries directly from the book reading app. I regularly read books in foreign languages with the main purpose of keeping up a language or learning a new one. That often means looking up a lot of words on each page, so direct access to dictionaries would be great! I would however wish to have more/other languages than those available, so I've been looking around here and in the wiki for solutions to that, and have concluded that one has to root the device and then install and use another reading app along with the new dictionaries in order for that to work. Correct? As I haven't yet made up my mind if I would find it worth the risks to root the T1 in the first place, I thought I'd ask for alternative solutions.

There are several useful on-line dictionaries that would probably do the job for me. (And I normally read in places with Wi-Fi access.) This makes me wonder a couple of things:

1. Is it possible to have both the book reader and the browser open simultaneously and flip back and forth between the book page and the www dictionary page without too many clicks? Is it possible to copy-paste words from (DRM protected) ePubs and PDFs into the browser, or would I need to retype every word I look up?

2. Is it possible to edit / add to the links that show up when highlighting a word in a book, e.g. to have direct links to the Wikipedia page in the language of the current book or to a suitable dictionary?

And also, approximately how short would the battery life be with the WiFi continuously on during reading?

07-24-2012, 07:06 PM	#1
Alpha Centauri Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Sweden / Finland Device: none	Using on-line dictionaries when reading e-books? Hi, I'm totally new to e-readers but am considering getting a Sony PRS-T1 as my first one, so I hope someone can help a confused newbie out! One thing I like about the Sony is the availability of multiple dictionaries directly from the book reading app. I regularly read books in foreign languages with the main purpose of keeping up a language or learning a new one. That often means looking up a lot of words on each page, so direct access to dictionaries would be great! I would however wish to have more/other languages than those available, so I've been looking around here and in the wiki for solutions to that, and have concluded that one has to root the device and then install and use another reading app along with the new dictionaries in order for that to work. Correct? As I haven't yet made up my mind if I would find it worth the risks to root the T1 in the first place, I thought I'd ask for alternative solutions. There are several useful on-line dictionaries that would probably do the job for me. (And I normally read in places with Wi-Fi access.) This makes me wonder a couple of things: 1. Is it possible to have both the book reader and the browser open simultaneously and flip back and forth between the book page and the www dictionary page without too many clicks? Is it possible to copy-paste words from (DRM protected) ePubs and PDFs into the browser, or would I need to retype every word I look up? 2. Is it possible to edit / add to the links that show up when highlighting a word in a book, e.g. to have direct links to the Wikipedia page in the language of the current book or to a suitable dictionary? And also, approximately how short would the battery life be with the WiFi continuously on during reading?