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Old 03-12-2017, 03:29 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Difermo View Post
It is to bad that kindle or kobo aren't so powerful. In tablet, pdf, I can't hold word and see what it means (if i do not understand it). That was the second reason for me to place books on my kindle paperwhite..
I assume you mean something like this

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All I did was highlight the word 'manuscript' (double click) in the PDF (opened in PDF xChange), and press Ctrl+Shift+`, voila WordWeb popped up with a definition, the only customisation was to assign that particular key sequence as the WordWeb hotkey. I have another gadget (clickto) that will lookup the highlighted text on the Web (Google, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc, or even MobileRead)

If something similar can't be done on Android or iOS I'd be surprised, but if not get a Surface, its a walk in park with Windows.

One of my dislikes of Android (and iOS I would guess, were I to use it) is the difficulty of getting 'apps' to interoperate, walled gardens full of walled gardens, or as I prefer - nests of recursive arboreta.

BR
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