Thread: Glo Kobo Glo... Eng-Eng dictionary quality?
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Old 12-03-2014, 12:07 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by supernatural View Post
when I got my Kobo I was thinking that the touch look up would be one of the best things about it... wrong. It absolutely sucks. I read a lot of history books and as such I often come across obscure proper nouns. This is where the failure of the Kobo really lets the reader down.

People say that it is based on the Mariam- webster dictionary but I am not so sure. The mariam webster online dictionary actually has a definition for Bolshevik but the kobo dictionary does not. If you are an amature historian you will not like this dictionary.
Yes, the general opinion is that Kobo probably has the worst dictionaries of the e-ink ereaders. They don't display it now, but it used to show that it was a Merriam-Webster dictionary. Unfortunately, they used the smallest dictionary that Merriam-Webster make. I believe this was free to use in applications like this which probably explains the choice.

For "obscure proper nouns", you will need a big dictionary. But, you can use the Wikipedia or google search functions that are available when you select a word or phrase.
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