Thread: Glo Kobo can no longer select words in dictionary
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Old 12-18-2015, 06:05 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by gianni_c View Post
Does anyone recall which version of Kobo firmware allowed drilldown within the dictionary? In other words, touch a word in your Kobo ebook, the dictionary opens in a corner of the page, then touch a word in the definition of that word, and the dictionary opens full screen, and then you could merrily continue selecting words in the dictionary to look up their definitions - without returning to the book you were reading. This feature was vital to a language learner like me, and seems to have been lost in the last 6 months.

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I tried 3.12.0 and it has the "new" dictionary functionality: tap, hold, and release to bring up the word definition, when you exit the dictionary you are back in reading mode.
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