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Originally Posted by ahi
About 15 clicks then.
And, assuming people are smart enough to find the shortest way to getting to their word, an average of 8 clicks to get to the right word on a 23 line 9 word/line page.
If they are not smart enough to find the shortest way, they may be clicking as many as 30 times to get to words at the bottom of the page.
I suppose this is tolerable--but I don't see myself being able to put up with it.
Touchpad with word-poking for dictionary look-ups sounds delightful though!
- Ahi
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don't forget that for instance bookeen has now implemented key-repeat ; you can click *once*, hold the key, and the cursor will skip down the lines until you release. then press to go sideways and allow it to skip along to your word. i agree with you, personally ; i find it a bit laborious to use this method. but nonetheless it's not so laborious as you think, and can be improved (with key repeat, for example).
but obviously the touchscreen word-poking method is much faster and easier.
it's one of my favourite features of the eb1150.