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Originally Posted by HarryT
I use the Kindle's dictionary a lot
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The English one? You? I figured you had it memorized by now.
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and it's about 1000x easier to use on the touch-screen Kindles than the non-touch-screen ones  . On the touch-screen you just "tap and hold" the word you want to look up. On the basic Kindle, you select the word you want to look up by moving a highlighter with a 5-way control.
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Touch is nice for that, but 1000x might be a tad of an exaggeration, as the 5-way has never presented me any noticeable difficulty, and the touch lookups on my PRS-350 and Fire have both been a bit finicky at times (as in I thought I was touching the right word for right amount of time, but the machine disagreed). Plus no need to touch the screen, which I like.
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Originally Posted by BookCat
I'm now seriously considering the kindle and I'm drawn to the paperwhite because of the 3g option, even though the basic would be a lot cheaper.
I've just asked over at the Kindle dept whether kindles have expansion slots for SD cards. I don't trust keeping books in the cloud but don't mind storing them on my pc or external hard drives.
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No SD slots. But transferring directly to the device from your PC is quite easy.
And while I'm no fan of cloud storage either, if you do get the 3G version, the cloud is mighty handy.
At least I THINK you can use the 3G for Amazon personal document storage?