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Originally Posted by livingenzyme
It will only work with text-based formats. Any page-based format (like pdf) the dictionary will not work for.
This goes for text search as well. There is an option where you can search a text within your book (much like the search function in windows where you just keep clicking next until you find what you want). It will only work with text-based formats. You can't do this with something like pdf.
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* Um, PDF is more complex than that.
If you try the standard Acrobat reader that Adobe supply as a free download the text search (Ctrl-F) will work fine on most every PDF. That because these are indeed "text-based". The JBL reader should be just as good. However PDFs can also contain page images where, as you say, search and copy/paste won't work. (IIRC "PDF is really three formats with one reader").
Now I was told "The JBL PDF reader supports search and dictionary use (firmware level 0.15d and after)" and put this in
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/JetBook_Lite
If you have evidence otherwise, please share.
* As to the JBL Dictionary the English look up one is too small, in fact there are many more words in the English-German translation dictionary.
I don't expect the full Merriam-Webster which I have on my PC's hard disk but it should have as many as the translation dictionary and contain most of the words in a novel.
As a check get a college type paper dictionary and go through it sise by side with the JBL, starting at "aria" or "burgle".