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One-touch dictionary wouldn't be a make-or-break feature for me, either. Although if it were one-touch wikipedia, I might be tempted! Re the OP - I think you have a good point about the risk:benefit ratio offered by B&N... they really could provide a bigger incentive. Maybe they just figured they'd have enough preorders without the incentives. |
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10-21-2009, 07:37 PM | #32 | |
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Bu then there is just old and uncommon word that is hard to know the meaning of like "obnubilate". |
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10-21-2009, 07:45 PM | #33 |
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Despite the fact that you don't want us to do so, there are quite a few folks on this forum that consider dictionary support as a 'must have' feature in an e-reader. So your derogatory comment at the beginning of this thread will gain you nothing good here. You're incorrect in assuming no one wants the dictionary feature and you're incorrect in assuming we're somehow your inferior for wanting dictionary support. Last edited by pking36330; 10-21-2009 at 08:19 PM. |
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10-21-2009, 08:23 PM | #35 |
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Back in the day I pre-ordered a Playstation two months before it came out, upon release they told me the shipment had not yet arrived. It took a full month after release for the thing to arrive and I ended up being the last person on the block instead of the first to get it. Being a kid that month was the equivalent of 6 adult years.
Pre-ordering is a bit of a scam and of little benefit to consumers. |
10-21-2009, 08:42 PM | #36 |
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Or..........you read enough to know that you don't know the meaning of every word ever published, and have an inquiring mind.
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10-21-2009, 08:47 PM | #37 |
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Gosh, I feel so left out. When thread was fresh, and pking's post was the last one, I was gonna toss out that I, too, consider a dictionary quite useful. I, too, could have been abused and tossed out with the garbage for not knowing every word in the English language. (I'm not very good as scrabble, either)
Now, I may or may not purchase a reader with a dictionary, but by the time I make the choice, it may be difficult to avoid it and it won't hurt my feelings. But there is no doubt the reader device manufacturers pay attention to the forums, and mentioning how useful one finds a dictionary to be cannot hurt. A few people saying it is a deal-breaker can get even more attention. Perusing a pd book from the first part of the century, I ran upon two words in the first 25 pages with which I was unfamiliar -- portentous, and nutation. YOU may know what they mean, but I don't. In casual conversation with our (college grad) renters about remodeling the rental house, my wife was recently astounded that they didn't know what a cupboard was, or the meaning of "residual" funds. So a dictionary may not be critical, but it sure is useful. Just my 2 cents presented in a $5 wrapper. eGeezer (still can't find where to create a signature) |
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10-21-2009, 10:13 PM | #39 |
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Same here, I was going to pre-order and then I started reading B&N return policy on this board and hesitated and I also read about being immediately charged and completely changed my mind. I will now wait for reviews. I will also wait until I can personally go to My nearest B&N and play with it a little. With a Kindle 2 & PRS-505, I think waiting is good thing because I sure don't need another 6 inch reader but the B&N was tempting. Now I had a chance to think about it a little, I probably will wait to add a bigger screen reader like I intended.
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I just wanted to reiterate that the Nook does in fact have dictionary support. This is based on looking at the features comparison chart to the Kindle 2 on the Nook website.
Personally, I rarely use the dictionary on my Kindle, so I can understand Bilbo's position. However, I can also understand everyone else feeling like Bilbo is telling them that the value they place on the dictionary function is not justified and they strongly disagree. Yet, regardless of your position on the value of an integrated dictionary, I think we are getting off track because the Nook has a dictionary. |
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I have a 505. It works well. So no need to spend the money on a Nook. Besides, I'm waiting to find out about the QUE, The PRS-900, and the DR800SG (sp?).
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I based my choice of an e-reader on the "availability of a dictionary", and I have never not been reading a book since...well, since as far back as I can remember. I can infer meaning from context, and I'm also sure folks here would justly contest that my vocabulary is on occasion too impracticably broad for general social communication (that's most times a flaw, I know - I am socially inept, a product of my antisocial introversion, no doubt). However, I have a pedantry for exact meaning (sometimes meaning inferred from context does not convey the complete intent of the author's use of the word), and a passion for words and their uses, abuses, misuses, and mischief, and a knowledge that some of the authors that I read precisely select words for not just meaning but etymology - this passion is an intrinsic part of my passion for reading. I would never buy an e-reader without user-selectable dictionary lookup. Cheers, Marc Last edited by montsnmags; 10-21-2009 at 11:31 PM. |
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10-21-2009, 11:51 PM | #45 |
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I too am looking for a new ereader WITH an inbuilt dictionary. It is going to be for my 'just' 13 year old daughter. She has just started to really read her way through the young adult books and is coming across vocabulary that she sometimes doesnt know, even when reading it in context she is sometimes still puzzled.
When reading a DTB she will have the dictionary someplace close. When I let her read for a while on my Kindle she loved the inbuilt dictionary for its ease of use (our DT dictionary is one of the large tomes, not a pocket edition). She has done nothing but complain about having to use the big monster book since I took my Kindle back. We compromised and now she borrows my iPod Touch to look up words until she gets her own ereader. So.....Yes, an inbuilt dictionary is a must! I will however not be going for the Nook until they put folders on it. I am looking for something better than my Kindle 1 to tempt me away from the Amazon format. The Nook would have won out if it would have only incorporated some sort of folder organization into its firmware. |
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