Hey Eschwartz, my fellow dark agent
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Two things.
First, you can probably just hit the back arrow in the uper left corner, to go back from the Wikipeda page to the book.
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OF COURSE I tried this and it works like a charm on all occasions, unless you either:
- open the dictionary to fullscreen, follow words in the dic (which - yay! - works) and enjoy your lingual adventure AND THEN decide to go back to the book (Tom Wolfe and T.C.Boyle tend to hijack me like this sometimes and I love it). Then you find yourself going ALL the way back or hit HOME, find your book and open it again...
- open wikipedia in full view and FOLLOW LINKS (html is based around that feature, so is wikipedia, people outside amazon know that since the 90s) or view some of the images... same lame route to get back to the book.
Both pains could be fixed with a back-to-the-book button in the context menue. Why won't it be fixed? In dics, because they are books like the book I read and opened the dic from. If I lookup dics inside dics and switch dics while doing this, how could the little bugger know which one is the book I read to begin with? I can live with that one, the functions I pay for with this hazzle are worth it
In wikipedia, because the browser is far from an "experimental browser" but utter crap. There's no Interface to the Kindle itself besides light settings, when you are caught in that stinkhole. But then again, browsers and the internet are not the main focus for e-bookreader devs outside mobileread.com, so... nevertheless: Sony did it way better half a decade ago.
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Also, make sure you don't forget to look at both JBPatch for the margins and the Fonts hack (for fonts obviously), once you jailbreak.
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Oh I read you and a lot of the engaged people here very carefully, especially about that.
Without the JB option, I would have canceled my quest already and decided to stick with my Sony for a couple of years longer, would have bought another T2 or a T3 just in case mine died.
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Oh, and third --congratulations on your new Kindle, and it is good to hear you are happy with it.
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Thanks man and indeed I am! I know there's nights of mobileread to explore to make it a Sony replacement, but with what NiLuJe and others including you give to the ereading community here, it might even become an upgrade!
A hell of an upgrade! The bitter pill however will stick in my throat: Amazon is definately paying the very wrong software devs!
Jeez, 3 hrs to alarm clock again, see you later over at kindle sections
