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title: "4 Kindle Tools You Should Use: Dictionary, Wikipedia, Translation, Content Errors"
description: "Obviously I am a fan of ebooks.  But I am a fan, not just because they are portable, are sometimes cheaper, or because they don't take up shelf space.  I am a fan of ereaders because of the tools..."
url: https://bookwi.se/dictionary/
date: 2013-10-30
modified: 2013-10-30
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Kindle Tips"]
type: post
lang: en
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# 4 Kindle Tools You Should Use: Dictionary, Wikipedia, Translation, Content Errors

Obviously I am a fan of ebooks.  But I am a fan, not just because they are portable, are sometimes cheaper, or because they don’t take up shelf space.  I am a fan of ereaders because of the tools that they bring to reading.

There are three in particular that most ereaders have that everyone should use.

**[![b](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/b.jpg)](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/b.jpg)Dictionary – **almost every ereader now has a built in dictionary.  For kindle all you need to do is touch the word (on touch screen kindles) or move the cursor to the word on non-touch screen kindles.  That will either pop up a dictionary or bring up an entry along the bottom of the page.  Everyone needs a dictionary at some point, so you might as well get used to using it.  The new Kindle Paperwhite also has a flashcard game that uses the words that use lookup in your dictionary to help teach vocabulary.

**Wikipedia – **Everyone knows that Wikipedia should not be used to write papers.  But it is a good enough system to give a good overview of almost anything.  On the new Kindles the wikipedia is a tab on the dictionary popup.  So if there is not a good definition in the dictionary then you should try wikipedia.  It is particularly helpful with names and places.

**Translation – **Translation is an option I rarely use, but it is occasionally helpful.  Highlight the phrase and then a popup will appear just like you were highlighting.  Choose more and one of the options is translation.  It does not do Latin, which is what I most often want to look up.  The language options are French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Dutch.

**[![a](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/a143.jpg)](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/a143.jpg)Bonus tip – **if you are as frustrated as I am about typos in ebooks then take charge and start reporting content errors.  In the same menu system as highlights or wikipedia, you can **Report Content Error.  **There are four options, typo, formatting, image and other.  Most of the time I only report typos.  So at one point in one of the Chronicles of Narnia the book said Asian.  What it meant was Aslan.  So I typed in ‘it should be Aslan not Asian’ and reported it.  If you want you can go to http://kindle.amazon.com and see a report of what happens.  It is not very detailed, it really just says whether the publisher has acknowledge receiving the report, now what actually happens once they get the report.