Word Lookup.....blessing or curse?????

[Slicer]

Lately I find myself reading something like web pages or word documents etc... either at work or wherever...and I find myself trying to use the 5-pointer to get to a word that I want to look up in the dictionary....am I alone??

I am absolutely spoiled with this feature...I use it quite often for words that I don't hear everyday. Absolutely love it.

[VictoriaP]

LOL--you're not alone.  I do it all the time and it seriously ticks me off that it doesn't work anywhere other than my Kindle!   

[KindleChickie]

Me too!

I came across the most awesome word in a book and meant to memorize it, then forgot.     It was a word for someone who is always looking for splinters in others eyes, yet never for the bolder in theirs (form the bible verse). 

[capeach]

I love it!  I'm reading Alice in Wonderland to my son, and we've had to look up two words so far (lorey and comfits)  It is wonderful being able to learn new words so easily.

[4Katie]

I use it a lot. Love it!

[beckysma]

I never realized before, the amount of words I just kind of guess their meaning and skim over, without really knowing.

I'm reading The Apotecary's Daughter, one of the past freebies (love it, btw) and it has a lot of old english words.  I guess at them, then use the cursor to define, and am often wrong!

So I had to read on the iPod Touch last night in bed, because I don't have a book light.  I was bummed that I couldn't look up the words!

[pawsplus]

Due to my losing my charger (arrived yesterday and all is now right w/ the world again) I had to read a DTB Wed. evening.  TWICE I started to try to look up a word!  I guess I'm really hooked.

I have a graduate degree in English and a pretty massive vocab, but I find myself looking up words I know just b/c it's easy and I'm interested in their origins.  I've been surprised - who knew that "dungarees" came from Hindustani?

[jonathanbloom]

There are plugins for Chrome and Firefox that let you browse for definitions by right clicking. I also visit Dictionary.com on my computer and iPhone when I don't know a word.

There is nothing like the Kindle's definitions, but then again there is nothing like the Kindle. Amazon is what makes the Kindle unique.

[svsilentsun]

One of my favorite secondary features!

[Someone Nameless]

I love it and that's one reason I love my Mac computers.  I can highlight a word and right click then "look up in dictionary".

[skyblue]

The dictionary feature is AMAZING, but I do find myself looking for the toggle button on a DTB.   Of course I am also looking for the page turn button as well. 

[Neekeebee]

This is a feature I never missed until after I had it.  I am reading the Percy Jackson series and love that I can access useful but succinct entries on the Greek mythology references that come up.  I learn something, and it doesn't take so long that it interrupts my reading!  The dictionary feature is probably what I miss most when I read on my Sony 300.

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[RiddleMeThis]

This is a feature I never missed until after I had it.

I agree. When I first bought my Kindle 2 I didn't care about the built in dictionary. Even said I would probably never use. Now I use it all the time, and hate the thought of not having it.

[cybergeezer]

I love it and that's one reason I love my Mac computers.  I can highlight a word and right click then "look up in dictionary".

Thanks for that I had forgotten about it. When I'm writing I use Spotlight, type "dic", open the dictionary and enter the root of the word I'm considering using. Might be easier to type part of it, highlight, right click and look up in the dictionary.

Love the built-in dictionary on the Kindle. When I'm out in the wild with my Kindle and someone inquires about it and has a few moments to hear about the features I generally say something like "You know when your'e reading and you see a word you're not sure about and you know that you should go pick up your dictionary and look it up but you don't...on the Kindle(1) you just click on the line and the dictionary brings up definitions for all the words on the line. That invariably produces a positive response.

[mrskb]

I love it and that's one reason I love my Mac computers.  I can highlight a word and right click then "look up in dictionary".

Me too!   

[Magenta]

That and pressing my thumb on a DTB to turn the page!

[PraiseGod13]

That and pressing my thumb on a DTB to turn the page!

Same with me.... if I have to read a DTB I find myself tryng to turn the pages with my "Next page" button and I REALLY miss being able to look up a definition in the dictionary that my Kindle offers.  My Kindle has me spoiled and I will only read a DTB if I have no choice to have it on my Kindle (either not available or too expensive).

[librarylady]

I also love the dictionary and it causes me to actually look the word up rather than guess since it is so convenient.  The funniest thing I've done with a DTB since I started reading on Kindle was that I was reading a paperback with one hand holding it open, using my other hand for writing, then I needed to answer the phone so I let go of the paperback ... and was actually really surprised when it closed and I had lost my place!  My kindle just would have patiently waited for me, "open" to right where I left off.

[TechBotBoy]

My mother was an English major in College and loved reading and words -- every morning at the breakfast table we would have a new word written out on a sheet of paper with pronounciation and definition, and then a quiz that evening at dinner so I've got a pretty good vocabulary and haven't used the dictionary yet -- but it's still early days -- thanks for the tip.

                                 -- Tbb