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This is so painful. Kindle still after all these years cannot select a single word without a comma. So, dictionary does not work. Such simple thing could be fixed, but you did all this bullshit work instead.

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I’ve used a Kindle since 2012 and I don’t think I have ever seen that kind of dictionary issue. On my Kindle, even though text highlighting behaves as you describe, dictionary lookups still work because punctuation is stripped before searching. For example I just highlighted “doing,” (including the comma) and the dictionary shows the definition of the word “doing”. I wonder if it works differently for languages other than English. (There is a different problem, that the stemming/trimming can be too aggressive and gets you irrelevant words in searches — i.e. ‘several’ when you search ‘severance’.)

You are right. This does not happen always, but sometimes. Maybe with Wikipedia, not dictionary? Maybe with my english-russian dictionary.

What got me was the kindle’s inability to not have ragged edges on the right. It’s really not that hard to implement I’d assume, LaTeX and the kobo do it well. Switched to kobo + calibre years ago, never looked back.

Also, I try my best not to buy anything Amazon anymore because Bezos is a gigantic prick.

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