e-reader question

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

On 12 Nov 2011, at 19:06, Susan Freese wrote:

> I tried iCab, but there was no triangle to the right of "Copy."  Should it
> work with iBooks?

Have a look at <http://folk.uio.no/kjetilrh/test/icab.jpg>. The only application I know that offers this, is iCab.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Kjetil Rå Hauge <k.r.hauge at ilos.uio.no>wrote:
> 
>> On 11 Nov 2011, at 16:23, Cynthia Simmons wrote:
>> 
>> Can anyone recommend an e-reader or similar device that offers the
>>> easiest and quickest way (app or other connection) to obtain a
>>> Russian-English translation of a word (what is available for an
>>> English-language text on the Kindle for instance).
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This may not be what you had in mind, but the browser iCab for the iPad
>> wil translate into English whatever text you have selected on the screen
>> (just click the triangle to the right of "Copy"). It works through Google
>> translate, so I suppose it covers the languages available there and is as
>> exact or inexact as its source, and you will have to be online to use it.
>> It does not seem to work for PDFs.
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>> Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo, PO Box 1003 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
>> Tel. +47/22856710, fax +1/5084372444
>> 
>> 

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Tel. +47/22856710, fax +1/5084372444

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