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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
Thanks, Kacir. Some follow-up questions:
Does "replaceable" mean by the user, or do you have to send it in. (The latter is usually very expensive.)
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Replaceable means that you can replace it yourself in 30 seconds. You do not even need screwdriver.
The battery is behind a small door at the back of the device. The battery is attached to the reader by a small connector.
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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
I haven't actually seen a Pocketbook "live" yet. What is the mechanism for looking up words? Buttons to spell out the word or navigate onscreen to the word? Doesn't have a touchscreen, which I suppose would be easier.
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You enter "dictionary mode" you scroll down to the line where the word is by pressing Down button repeatedly (or, if the line with the word is near the bottom by pressing Up repeatedly - the scroll "wraps around"
Then you use Left and Right buttons to get to the word and you see dictionary entry immediately in a "window" that takes up part of the screen. if you press OK you get to the dictionary window and there are more functions available. You can switch between dictionaries, you can look up different wird by typing it on the on-scren keyboard, or you can scroll up/down in a dictionary to look up similar words(*).
(*) Russian and other Slavonic languages are very different from English. A simple verb, that has only one form in English has many forms, depending on the [grammatical] gender of the speaker or described object, tense, whether it is in plural or singular. Nouns have even more forms, so scrolling in the dictionary is necessary, because you need to find the root of the word.