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eljacob · 03-14-2009, 11:57 AM

I am a newbie to this forum, but I am a long time ebook reader. I started reading electronic books in an iPaq, back then when we didn't have smartphones and carried a cell phone and a PDA. I know, I am getting old...

Since then I tried quite a few readers, some of them with built in dictionaries (like Windows Mobile devices and the iRex 1000), and it is nice to have a built in dictionary, but I always found it very slow and distracting to select the word, move to the dictionary, and move back to what I was reading.

What I really would like to see is a good dictionary implemented as a true feature of the reader, and not as a linked separate book (ok Sony?): you select a word, and the reader shows a fast pop-up window with the translation or definition.

Until I find something like this I am using a separate Franklin dictionary device (I use the MWD-1490). I do have to carry a separate device and I do have to retype the word I am searching for, but the device is very small and light and for me it is faster and less distracting to type the word in a separate device then to do the full cycle in a built-in “linked book sort of” dictionary.

03-14-2009, 11:57 AM	#107
eljacob Member Posts: 10 Karma: 14 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: PRS-700	I am a newbie to this forum, but I am a long time ebook reader. I started reading electronic books in an iPaq, back then when we didn't have smartphones and carried a cell phone and a PDA. I know, I am getting old... Since then I tried quite a few readers, some of them with built in dictionaries (like Windows Mobile devices and the iRex 1000), and it is nice to have a built in dictionary, but I always found it very slow and distracting to select the word, move to the dictionary, and move back to what I was reading. What I really would like to see is a good dictionary implemented as a true feature of the reader, and not as a linked separate book (ok Sony?): you select a word, and the reader shows a fast pop-up window with the translation or definition. Until I find something like this I am using a separate Franklin dictionary device (I use the MWD-1490). I do have to carry a separate device and I do have to retype the word I am searching for, but the device is very small and light and for me it is faster and less distracting to type the word in a separate device then to do the full cycle in a built-in “linked book sort of” dictionary. Last edited by eljacob; 03-14-2009 at 12:16 PM.