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Originally Posted by barryem
Today while reading on my Kindle a character in my rather long book referred to someone doing something with the color violet. I don't recall the details at the moment but they don't matter. Anyway I had no idea what that was about so I held my finger down on the word "violet" and selected "search" and "this book" and in a couple of seconds I was looking at all the instances of the word "violet" in the book, along with enough context to remind me what the reference means. That is an extremely useful feature.
I haven't read a paper book in a long time. Do they do that now too? 
Barry |
And if connected to the net or if you have the right dictionary on your reader you can get definitions for unfamiliar terms or even translate phrases in other languages. Paper can't do that either.