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10-18-2010, 08:57 PM | #1 |
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Kindle 3: Highlight and lookup the definitions for words not in dictionary?
Is there a way to quickly search google or wikipedia for the word under the cursor? If its in the dictionary, I can open up the dictionary entry and then easily go from there to a wikipedia search for that word. However, for words without a dictionary entry (exactly the ones I'd want to wikipedia), I can't find a way to do this, short of typing out the word and manually doing the search, which strikes me as a less than ideal solution. Just pointing the cursor at a word that's not in the dictionary doesn't do anything.
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10-19-2010, 12:15 AM | #2 |
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Google search on a highlighted word or phrase would be a great feature.
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10-19-2010, 08:56 AM | #4 |
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You, sir, are a scholar and a saint. Works perfectly, thank you.
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10-19-2010, 09:42 AM | #5 |
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10-19-2010, 10:19 AM | #6 |
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That's a neat trick! Thanks.
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10-19-2010, 04:05 PM | #7 |
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C'mon now, being a woman is hardly a trick.
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10-19-2010, 04:07 PM | #8 |
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10-19-2010, 04:15 PM | #9 |
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*spews diet coke all over keyboard*
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10-27-2010, 01:46 PM | #10 |
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I'd just like to say thank you for this tip as i've been wondering how to perform this all day
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10-27-2010, 01:52 PM | #11 |
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