Thread: Sony Readers, 700 and 505
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Old 11-30-2008, 04:41 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by dhbailey View Post
As for the potential for a dictionary on the 700, it is primed and ready to go and I think they haven't put the development dollars into a dictionary yet because they wanted to see how many units sell to see whether it will be a product which will sell.
I'm afraid that I honestly don't see the relevance of a touch screen to dictionary lookup. Neither the Kindle nor the CyBook Gen3 have a touch screen, but both have perfectly satisfactory user interfaces to allow dictionary lookup.

I honestly think that if dictionary lookup is important to you, you should buy a machine which supports it now, rather than some vague and unsubstantiated "hope" that it will be added to a machine in the future. Have Sony given the slightest indication that they intend to add dictionary support to the PRS-700?
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