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How to do a multiple word look-up within a book
Hey all,
I have a K3 and it is possible to do a multiple word look-up from within a book. I am not very good at explanations, but I will try... 1. Use the five-way to put the cursor in front of the first word. 2. Press down as if highlighting. 3. Press right on the five-way to highlight the second word, but do not complete an actual highlight. 4. Press the space bar to make the words appear in a box at the bottom of the screen. 5. The bottom of the new box will give options: Cancel---Clear---Save & Share---Save Note--- and then a little arrow pointing to the right. Go down to this line and keep clicking to the right until the -Dictionary- option appears and is highlighted. 6. Press center of the five-way and the dictionary will open on the definition. 7. Press the Back button to return to your book. I know this more tedious than simply moving the cursor up to the front of the word, but it works for me. ![]() Last edited by dragonette; 11-04-2010 at 12:01 PM. |
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Wait, the free 3G isnt free? Then why am I paying an extra $50? Whats the difference between the $139 version and the $189 version?
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Agreed. I find being able to put a single book in to multiple parallel collections vastly superior to a simplistic system based on a tree of folders. True, I would like to be able to nest collections, but while its a choice of one or the other I prefer the current Kindle approach.
With Collections, I can have genre based groups (SF, Mystery, ...), length based groups (Novel/Novella, Short Story, Flash, ...) and have a "My Shortlist". A single book can easily be in multiple Collections. It can't be done at all on a simple system based on a folder tree. |
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@dwig Thank you both for your thoughtful and well written responses. I must say you have presented an interesting concept - one that I shall have to give thought. I must agree that keeping duplicate copies of the same ebook is a waste. I will comment that it is more important to me to have my ebooks in a single genre category than to "spread" them across a number of genres. Of course, with my method I would have one book in one sub-folder under one genre folder. EDIT I thought some more on your concept and have a few queistions for you. I would assume, given the "flat" nature of Kindle collections, that you have separate collections for each genre (Fiction - Science, Fiction - Non, Fiction - Historical, etc.) as well as "specialty" collections such as collections named Novel/Novella, Short Stories, (what is Flash?) as well as (I would assume) collections named Author, Title, ... Is this a correct assumption? Finally, are there other "specialty" collection types that I should consider? Thank you, in advance, for your replies. END EDIT Again, than you for your replies. Regards, Vandy ![]() Last edited by Vandy; 11-04-2010 at 04:21 PM. Reason: More thoughts on comments... |
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I completely agree with this one! But it's not only the Kindle who has this problem, the Sony also doesn't nest.
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Perhaps this is just an issue in South Africa but "free books" cost $2 and we pretty much have to add the same $2 to every book price for the "free" delivery. Web browsing is disabled in South Africa.
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Most of these points are not valid.
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I don't bother making a collection for each author because there's a sort that already does that. Granted, sometimes the sort doesn't work because publishers aren't consistent in their naming, so sometimes it shows up under the author's first name, and sometimes under the author's last name. If I'm looking for something by a particular author, I just search "My Items" for the author's name. |
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The real reason Kindle doesn't (and won't) support ePUB is because Amazon doesn't sell the Kindle to make money on Kindle sales; they sell it to increase book sales. And they don't sell ePUB format books. If one day they move to ePUB format books, then it will support ePUB (and probably an Amazon-proprietary ePUB DRM). Until then, there is no reason for them to support ePUB, and a reason not to: perceived lost sales. The funny thing is, if it did support ePUB, I would have considered it, and probably would have bought more Amazon books. Right now, I avoid Amazon like the plague, because my reader (nook) doesn't support Amazon format. I only buy from Amazon if I can't find it anywhere else and I can confirm (by downloading a sample) that the book can have DRM stripped and format converted to ePUB easily. |
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I thought that samples were not DRMed?
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There's tools available to easily convert from Mobi to epub and vice-versa, so what's the big deal anyway? |
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Also, the formats have different features. For example, in ePUB you can float images and tables beside text, but in MOBI you cannot. So conversions lose formatting, which, in some cases, leaves the book unreadable. In one case I had, the book had little 'tips' occasionally on the right. After a conversion, the tips were interleaved inside the text. It was terrible. |
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