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Originally Posted by norweger
I think it may be ideal for ebooks in foreign languages. So, you read the book on the eink side, and when there's a new word you gotta understand and learn you flip the phone and there you have your favorite dictionary.
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No need for such an approach. Instead, just use a reading app like Moon+ Reader and the ColorDict or the GoldenDict app.
In the settings of Moon+ Reader, you can have it use either ColorDict or GoldenDict to look up whatever text you select when reading. You can also choose what happens on a long press. I usually have it automatically open another dictionary app.
This is a very efficient method which works exceptionally well with my A5. Currently, I'm reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in Chinese. When I click on a character or phrase that I am unfamiliar with, it looks for the text in all the dictionaries I have installed in GoldenDict. Some are Chinese-Chinese Dictionaries. Others are Chinese-English dictionaries.
Additionally, I have the e-ink button on the A5 set to open a different Chinese dictionary app on a long press of the button. So I can copy the selected text, then paste it into that other app. Works very well.
On top of that, I use a different reading app with a copy of the book in English open to where I am in the Chinese text. That way, if there is something I really cannot figure out with the help of dictionaries, I can check the Chinese translation against the English. Very useful having two different reading apps open at the same time. One can seamlessly jump between them.
The A5 is such a wonderful tool for language study. Having downloaded the appropriate language packs, I can also have the TTS engine read the text aloud while I follow along. I wish I had such a tool when I was in university. I spent thousands of hours with my head buried in various paper dictionaries which I also had to lug about.
So no need for the dual screen. The single screen A5 works just fine for language study. And I find it much easier to select text on it than on my Onyx devices even though they are much larger.