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Originally Posted by Peter Sorotokin
The thread is amusing not so much because someone calls me stupid or misinformed. It is because most people attack a straw man. Suppose I have said, "most people who read ebooks can't read Spanish" - would you infer that Adobe does not plan to support anything but English? This is not a Boolean flag - important or not.
Also, to make it clear - I do not represent Adobe here - not even allowed to. I am an engineer, not a PR guy. So all my posts are strictly personal opinions.
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You are correct that a number of posters were making the assumption that Adobe was not interested in supporting dictionary look-up. The statement, "while it's a neat feature, most people don't use it", could lead a reader to make that assumption. Unfortunately, inferences from reading a text of any kind are not as cut and dried as Boolean operators. They are left up to interpretation by the reader based on a number of personal factors and experiences. Because of the ambiguity of the conclusions that could be drawn from the statement and to help clarify the wants/needs of the ebook reader for EPUB developers, this poll was created. The poll results clearly show that the readers here at MR are very interested in the dictionary feature.
I apologize for assuming that you represent Adobe. I was led to that conclusion by your user tag. However, if you do not want to be seen as a spokesperson for that company, you might want to change that to something less corporate.
