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Old 01-13-2026, 06:41 PM   #4
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by jackm8 View Post
I think that it's a great tool, smart and well executed, I just don't think that it's bringing anything to the table that I personally need. If I encounter a word that I don't understand, I use a dictionary, and If I need to wiki something, I use a browser. Either in Koreader or on a phone.
Thank you for your response. You probably have a lot of company. I'm hoping that there are enough people that like using X-ray or would like using better created X-ray to form a community.
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Originally Posted by jackm8 View Post
I'm not a fan of x-ray features. That goes for both WordDumb or official Kindle x-ray. They've managed to spoil stories in a few cases that I've used them.
I agree that's a problem. I probably encounter it less because I've been reading mostly non-fiction. It is unfortunate that wikipedia and other wiki or wiki like sites are so prone to put spoilers in their initial summaries.

I hoping that there will eventually be a repository of community generated and polished worddumb-custom-xray.json files available that will result in excellent XRAY.*.asc files. It will certainly challenging to get something like that up and running.

The motivation for this poll is to find out whether a potential community exists. The thread for the plugin has over 700 posts and over 500,000 views, so I was hoping for a larger response to the poll. I did expect that most mobilereaders would not be xray users.
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