e-reader question

[Susan Freese]

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

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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