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Originally Posted by Dinsule
How do the reading features hold up between the Sony, the Kindle, and the Bebook/associated products? Specifically with regard to format availability, dictionary usage, and text searching.
It sounds like the main advantages of the kindle are the store, and as XKCD put so wonderfully, the mobile Wikipedia. But short of those advantages, style and functionality points seem to go to Sony and various other competitors.
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The Sony readers don't support dictionary lookup but the 700 supports search. The 505 doesn't. The Cybook has dictionary lookup but not search. It does have user-loadable fonts, though, and better dictionary support than the Kindle as it lets you have multiple dictionaries searchable at once. The iLiad has dictionary but only search in PDF if I recall correctly. I actually got the Kindle because it was the only one that would let me do search and dictionary lookup in all my books, plus it had annotation and Wikipedia. I bought if for functionality primarily. The store is a great bonus convenience and I love the free samples but at the time I made my decision, those didn't weigh very heavily.
I've heard talk that dictionary might be coming to some of the other current readers and some of the things shown at CBIT definitely had search. I don't know the BeBooks and Netronix variants all that well. Maybe some of them already have search.