01-30-2011, 06:40 PM | #31 |
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Annotations and logs -- and what about the Nook?
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The Kindle allows you to highlight and make annotations in dictionaries as you can in any other e-book. You can't do this on the Sony, but the Sony keeps "logs" of words you look up. It even maintains separate lookup logs for each e-book in addition to each dictionary. Maybe a Nook fan could jump in and talk about dictionary functionality on the Nooks. I know that the Nooks use Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. If I recall correctly, on the Nooks there is no way to simply open the dictionary and browse; you have to search for a word from within an e-book. When you do that and the Nook takes you to an entry, if it's not what you're looking for there's no way to advance to the next entry or select another from a list. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I also noticed some formatting problems with the dictionary on the Nook Color, i.e. missing spaces, etc. Also, as far as I know you can't install different dictionaries. I have some old eReader dictionaries, but I don't think these will work on a Nook. |
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The usage is not that comfortable as with the Sony 650 - to make a little understatement -, but the dictionary itself is very good. It is this one: http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/...p?BookID=86466 I bought the hardcover version (20 cm thick!); that included both English-German and German-English and the respective mobi-files. Maybe Amazon is offering this dictionary, too, but I haven't checked. |
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01-31-2011, 04:44 PM | #35 |
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I don't remember them touting dictionary capabilities in their product information, but maybe I just wasn't paying attention. Anyway, dictionaries seem to be a feature that quite a few people don't care about. For me, it's one of the most important features in an e-book reader. From this perspective I'm very happy with the Sony PRS-350 and the Kindle 2, and for that matter I also like Mobipocket and eReader for Palm OS.
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The Sony PRS-950 comes with about 11 dictionaries pre-install. If you are able to get you hands on it, then it's the best choice.
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02-18-2011, 05:03 PM | #39 |
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Another Sony dictionary feature
I've just added the following to the "review" of the Sony 350's dictionary feature that I wrote earlier in this thread; I'm posting here as well so that anyone subscribed to this thread who might be interested will be notified:
I recently noticed a useful dictionary feature on my Sony 350. If you double-click on a word for which there is a corresponding entry in the dictionary, the dictionary suggests the first corresponding entry. If there are more corresponding entries, it also displays a small icon that looks like a bulleted list. If you click on this icon, you get a list of other entries that begin with the letters in the word you clicked on. For example, if you look up might and click on the "list" icon, you get a list of entries that includes terms like might-have-been and mighty. This provides an alternative way of looking up hyphenated terms like the example "four-square" I used above. Instead of selecting the entire term and deleting the hyphen, you can just double-click on the word before the hyphen, click the "list" icon, and select the term you are looking for from the list. The list is limited to 100 items, which may not be enough to reach the term you are looking for without adding more letters to your search term. It took me a while to notice this feature; the "list" icon is rather easy to miss in my opinion. |
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