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wallcraft · 07-01-2009, 11:27 AM

1) You can search within the current ebook if you use the 3rd party FBReader (which supports many DRM-free reflowable ebook formats). Otherwise not.

2) Only within the supplied MobiPocket Reader. Multiple MOBI dictionaries can be used at once and there are a wide selection of commercial and free dictionaries.

3) Annotations are handwritten onto PDFs only.

Overall the answer is more no than yes.

The only current ebook reader that can answer yes to all 3 questions is the Kindle 2 (but it requires conversion of PDFs to MOBI, and supports only a single dictionary). The Kindle DX cannot highlight/annotate PDFs (and dictionary lookup in PDFs isn't automatic), but it is otherwise like the K2.

07-01-2009, 11:27 AM	#4
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	1) You can search within the current ebook if you use the 3rd party FBReader (which supports many DRM-free reflowable ebook formats). Otherwise not. 2) Only within the supplied MobiPocket Reader. Multiple MOBI dictionaries can be used at once and there are a wide selection of commercial and free dictionaries. 3) Annotations are handwritten onto PDFs only. Overall the answer is more no than yes. The only current ebook reader that can answer yes to all 3 questions is the Kindle 2 (but it requires conversion of PDFs to MOBI, and supports only a single dictionary). The Kindle DX cannot highlight/annotate PDFs (and dictionary lookup in PDFs isn't automatic), but it is otherwise like the K2.