Best way to look up a dictionary entry on the iPad?
I was trying to look up some terms in Easton's Bible Dictionary on the iPad for my 10-year-old son who had to define "Jewish" for his school work. I could not find an easy way to navigate to "Jew" in the dictionary on the iPad. If I open the book and go to contents and then click the arrow next to "J", it only takes me as far as "Jacob". I have to select that entry and then page through several tens of pages to make my way to "Jew". Am I missing something obvious? Searching isn't a help either since a common term like "Jew" returns far too many hits, even if I only search my "Dictionaries" collection.
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Ron, if you swipe down, you will get the menu bars. In the top bar, you can enter the reference "Jew" and then hit the "go" key on the keyboard.
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Hey Damian,
Sorry it took me so long to respond. This did the trick...thanks. The funny thing is that I did try this that day, but it kept taking me out of the book and switching me to my Bible instead of taking me to the corresponding dictionary entry...but I can't get that to replicate now, it's working as expected.
Thanks!
Ron
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There have been a lot of changes to the ipad version since this was posted. Currently, if you swipe down there is a box at the top that says "Enter reference", but entering a keyword does nothing (unless you enter the name of a Bible book in which case you are taken to that book in your default Bible).
It seems to want you to enter a page number or something else--when you are already at an entry, the input is prefilled with a number. For example, in AYBD, if I am on the entry for Abigail, the data in the input box is "Vp 1.15". If I try typing in "Abigail" it does nothing.
Am I missing something or is looking up entries in a dictionary now broke?
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I've found the same behaviour and I find it very limiting. I have to make my way through the table of contents in order to get to a specific entry. I should be able to just enter it just like I can in the Logos desktop app.
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