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Originally Posted by HarryT
The main menu on the CyBook has an item called "Lookup Mode". Selecting this gives you a "word highlight" cursor, which you move left, right, up, and down around the page using the navigation key. When the word you want to look up is selected, you press <Enter> to see its definition.
It's an interface which works very well indeed.
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It works but it is a bit slow due to the slowness of the navigation. And if you have a lot of books in the same directory as the dictionary the lookup is also very slow.
I just tested the MobiPocket reader on my S60 phone and the lookup worked pretty similar there. You press 9 to get to lookup mode and then you navigate exactly as on the Cybook Gen3. The thing the Mobile Phone reader is much better on is that it supports looking up any word in the dictionary and it support search through the whole dictionary. And since the navigation on the phone is much faster it works really well as a portable dictionary.