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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Yeah they have some uses. If they could do them without sacrificing contrast I'd be supportive.
That said, I've probably looked up a word on my Kindle 5 times or so in the year I've had it. My vocabulary is pretty solid, and many times I just don't bother since these e-ink readers are so damn slow to pull up a dictionary definition and get back to the book. Maybe the Sony's are quicker than the Kindle though.
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It depends what you're reading. Reading Dumas, I found that there were lots of words that I looked up - which I wouldn't have bothered with looking up on paper - and that I learned a lot by doing so. On the Sony, it's quick and easy to do this. I find it a real benefit reading the public domain books which tend to be >100 years old; a lot of words shift their meaning in 100 years!