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Originally Posted by blue_skies
(Apologies in advance - this is a long story:  )
You guys, I had such a terrible time yesterday and last night. After being so pleased with my new T-62, I decided to install a dictionary. I thought it would be a fairly simple task. I thought I would install the ColorDict app and use StarDict for the actual dictionary aspect... but when I went to download it, it seems StarDict has been very recently pulled from SourceForge due to copyright issues. I spent a long time searching for other free options, but eventually decided to go with ColorDict and WordNet.
I also had to look up how to sideload an App since I've never used Android. Well, it seemed easy enough. I just copied the ColorDict APK on to the root directory along with the WordNet folder. I tapped it to install it, which seemed to work. Then it asked about downloading dictionaries and I chose WordNet. So far, so good I thought. But when I opened the Colordict app, it was completely black with all the icons and text in a very dark color, which made it almost impossible to see or read anything.  That was not what I was expecting. I had to turn the light all the way up just to be able to make out a few icons and the search bar at the top. I couldn't find any way to change it.
Then I opened a couple books and kept trying to get a definition to pop up, but it wouldn't work. I read online that it might be because the dictionary had to be indexed, but the option for that was missing in my ColorDict. I was able to type in words in the actual program and get a definition to pop up there, but after trying everything I could think of, I still couldn't get it to work with FBReader.  |
How can I understand you,
7 years ago with my sony I had inbuilted high quality licensed dictionaries with immediate pop up, no installation, no root, no new apps to download, today that sony went away from the market... ereader manufacturers do not offer nothing!!!!
SHAME on them
one of the main causes I do not buy new readers, I prefer to read a sluggish and grey screen old Sony without backlight than go through every sort of trick, bugs, wasting my few free time to find my system.
Kobo, Kindle, Energy Pro, Onyx, Boox, Bouye, and all the android/ios apps, shame on you. I look forward to jump on the newcomer that understood what is a decent user experience! At the moment my Sony PRS T 2 works perfect and I do not need you!