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Originally Posted by HarryT
The situations I'd like to have it in fiction are for the really long "classics" - stuff like "War and Peace", or "The Count of Monte Cristo" where you encounter someone's name who last appeared 1000 pages before and you can't remember who they are. That's especially a problem in "War and Peace" where there are literally hundreds of named characters, many of whom have very similar names.
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That's one of the things I'd use it for most, since I tend to have several books on the go at once and would appreciate being able to selectively refresh my memory.
I'm also hoping travel guides will start coming out on the Reader, since it'd be handy to carry around a few on a trip without the bulk... being able to search for place names and such would be great.
When I'm reading, I'll sometimes run into a word I'm not sure of the exact meaning of... usually I'm too lazy to run for the dictionary, but I'd still LIKE to know what it means. Being able to pick a word on the page to look up in a dictionary would be pretty cool. Not sure how it would work with the existing keys, though, unless you went back to the book menu and keyed the word in from there - a search would probably have to work the same way.