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Originally Posted by PRS-T2
Hey Eschwartz, my fellow dark agent 
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. |
I definitely hear where you are coming from. Personally, I don't bother exploring much in the browser, and when I do, I use
the skipstone hack. It doesn't integrate with the Wikipedia ACX (though I bet someone could write one which does
) but it can be launched with Aeris's Kindle Menu (pulldown, smartphone-style, also the
Guake terminal emulator, which I have fallen in love with
) and then when you X out the browser overlay, you go back to wherever you were before.
It is a superior browsing experience in general (tabbed, bookmarks bar, better rendering, landscape mode for full desktop rendering) and of course being a hack has a better way of quitting.
