Thread: 5 Things That Will Make E-Readers Better in 2010
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Old 02-19-2010, 02:44 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton View Post
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!
Agreed. Most of the 5 or so words (if not all) I looked up were from reading Crime and Punishment.

Since then I've read pretty light and recent stuff so I haven't had much need.

Even with Dostoyevsky, I didn't look up most stuff I didn't now as the the Kindle is just so slow to pull up the dictionary etc. that I'd just read on.

I'd do it more on an LCD tablet I'd guess, as I could touch the word and get the definition to pop up nearly instantly. The speed of e-ink readers keeps me from using it as much as I would if it was fast.
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