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05-19-2010, 09:08 AM | #17 |
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Thanks, Logseman. Sorry for my ignorance, but what is "PB"? Not sure how you navigate onscreen to look up words in the separate application...?
When you click on a word in the text, how does the translation show -- in a pop-up box? Do you know if the price for the Pocketbook 360 will go up next month when the new dictionaries are added to the "package"? |
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05-19-2010, 09:22 AM | #18 |
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Sorry, didn't read the previous posts carefully. So to answer my own questions, yes the battery is user-replaceable, Italian>English is not (yet) possible, and the new Pocketbook 360 with the language pack will cost 259 euros. This is 20 euros more than the current model, so assuming there are no other differences I guess I should go ahead and get the current version. Does this come with an English-English dictionary, or any other dictionaries? From what I've read it seems likely that two-way dictionaries will be coming before too long (?). Or is there an Italian>English dictionary already that can be uploaded? I'm just about sold on the Pocketbook 360...!
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05-19-2010, 09:29 AM | #19 | ||
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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. |
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Sounds like just what I want, except the Italian>English doesn't seem to be available yet. I think I'll get one. Thanks!
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05-19-2010, 10:55 AM | #21 |
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Well, let's see how that works out. I'd be happy to pay a little premium for a quality dictionary, but they should either be good mono-lingual ones, or if they use English as the common language be able to translate to and from that. I have no need for an English>Greek dictionary (I don't speak Greek), a lthough a Spanish>English one, say, might come in handy at times.
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05-19-2010, 02:27 PM | #22 |
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05-19-2010, 03:49 PM | #24 |
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Just watched "Nate the Great's" 2-part PB hands on video, which was good because I had not seen one in action yet. After that, however, I watched this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFTkL...eature=related. But reading the comments to this video, it appears that this comparison is misleading and due to a file defect. Or does anyone else claim that PB is slow to open and cannot remember bookmarks accurately?
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I've never had such trouble with any book I've ever opened, in any format (even DRM'd ones). I believe that would have to do with the file. For some reason, the reviewer didn't disclose any information about the file which would have been useful.
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05-20-2010, 12:24 AM | #26 |
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I haven't watched the video, but I've never had any problem opening any of my books/files and my bookmarks have been remembered every single time.
I'd say it was a problem with the file itself. |
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I have never experienced PocketBook loosing a bookmark or not remembering where I left the book. The vast majority of files I have opened on PocketBook open in a very reasonable time. A friend of mine wanted to test my PocketBook on one particular pdf and the opening of file took several minutes. It was pdf with textbook. Big, complicated book full of graphics, very complicated layout, *lots* of embedded fonts, lots of formulas, charts ... The video is definitely misleading. I have opened many hundreds of various e-books on my PocketBook and only one, or perhaps two took this long to open. |
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