Thread: New Kindle Word Wise feature
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Old 11-29-2014, 01:39 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Doitsu View Post
@Hitch: I've unpacked several free Word Wise enabled Kindle books. Since I didn't find any definition markup in those files, I strongly suspect that Amazon simply licensed a large English thesaurus database that eInk Kindles use to add definitions on-the-fly. However, since not all new Kindle books are automatically Word Wise enabled, this feature seems to be artificially restricted to certain books. (Maybe they have to pay a small per book license fee to the thesaurus provider or eInk Kindles can only display Word Wise definitions on-the-fly, if the style sheet of the Kindle book meets certain requirements.)
Hmmm. I may inquire. Honestly, that feature, along with x-ray, makes my head hurt (as a reader)...what was wrong with the idea of tapping a word, if you didn't know it, for heaven's sake? And ditto what Wolfie said: there goes ANY hope of a less-than-1.2em line height.

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