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Oh, okay - I looked through the thread but only found the issue with British vs American English. Now I understand your suggestion, thanks.
I do have a Kindle, and while I agree that navigation can be sluggish when compared to non eInk devices, dictionary lookup functionality is pretty good, and certainly nothing I'd complain about specifically. 'Flipping through pages' is not something the current crop of eInk devices is any good at, unfortunately. eInk may get a little faster, but it will never approach LCD performance, as it relies on physical rather than electronic pixels. That's just physics...
For dictionary lookup, you just locate the word using the joystick (touch screen would be better here, but...) and a short definition pops up at the bottom of the screen. 'Enter' takes you to the full def, Back takes you back from there. No typing is involved. The joystick is a little awkward, but the effort to use it is not very great, and certainly it is a lot easier than looking up in a print dictionary, or having to type in each word to look up.
When you do start typing something it is the beginning of a search of: current item, all items, kindle store, google or wikipedia search, or dictionary search. After typing your search term, you then have to declare the search scope. To be useful, autosuggest would have to default to dictionary scope, but that's usually not what one would be searching when typing in a search term. On Kindle anyway...
I have navigation complaints more generally - should be able to jump to a link with a keyboard shortcut rather than having to locate it with joystick, for example.
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