E-book viewer's "read the text aloud" function conflicts with dictionary lookup

[Seiichi Saida]

If "read the text aloud" is turned on with the dictionary lookup panel opened and "update on selection change" checked, the dictionary lookup panel will lookup every single word that is being read out.

It should tell the difference between human selected words and "read aloud" selected words.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

that is by design. It can be helpful to see word definitions while
reading aloud. If you dont want to see them, close the panel.

 status wontfix

[Seiichi Saida (s1-saida)]

This triggers Googe Dict's anti-robot CAPTCHA if you let it read for a while.
And I don't think human eyes are fast enough to read the description in the dictionary when the word speed is above 1 word/s.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

The idea is you pause reading and read the lookup. Like I said, if you
dont want to see the lookups, close the panel.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

That said it might be worth adding a debounce timer to the lookup so
that repeated fast lookups are throttled automatically.

[Seiichi Saida (s1-saida)]

Agreed.
My user case is letting it read and pausing when I need to look up a word. It's really not convenient to close the dictionary panel manually every time.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

There is already a checkbox at the bottom of the lookup panel to prevent lookup on selection change. Use it, then all you have to do is pause and then click th erefresh button in the lookup panel to lookup the currently selected word.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased

[James Romero (turapter)]

It's strange that I didn't catch this bug when I was listening to Catcher in The Rye for my college work, although it wasn't that long ago. I saw some examples of essays on https://eduzaurus.com/free-essay-samples/catcher-in-the-rye/ and decided to try to write a similar paper myself, but it was necessary to read the book, which I did through calibre. But as for me that mistake is not so critical and I would not even pay attention to it if I faced it.

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