by Josh Lowensohn
The idea of finding out more about a word or phrase you run across while reading is becoming more popular. In reading applications on the iPad, and of course, Amazon’s Kindle, it’s now common to find a built-in dictionary tool, or a way to start a Web search on something that may have you scratching your head.
That same technology is coming to digital book and document repository Scribd via a partnership with Apture.