{"id":23,"date":"2009-07-23T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/whats-the-deal-with-the-kindle-dictionary\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T01:36:00","slug":"whats-the-deal-with-the-kindle-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2009\/07\/whats-the-deal-with-the-kindle-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the deal with the Kindle dictionary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently lost in wikipedia hell when I realized one of the things I find disappointing about the Kindle.  I love the inline dictionary, but I really dislike:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>How long it takes to look stuff up\n<li>The quality of the dictionary (not the definitions themselves, but how many words aren&#8217;t in the dictionary)\n<li>The fact that the dictionary can&#8217;t be used to look up words in a definition.<\/ul>\n<p>While all of these are annoying, the last one drives me nuts.  I end up looking up words in definitions all the time.  Even if I know the word, I might want the exact denotation, a derivation, pronunciation, etymology.  Not being able to easily &#8220;chain&#8221; lookups together is really frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently lost in wikipedia hell when I realized one of the things I find disappointing about the Kindle. I love the inline dictionary, but I really dislike: How long it takes to look stuff up The quality of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2009\/07\/whats-the-deal-with-the-kindle-dictionary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}