Quote:
Originally Posted by wallcraft
There are no usable dictionaries in ePub format. The only format with a large number of commercial dictionaries is MOBI. If MobiPocket were an independent company they would already have leveraged their dictionary capability onto devices using ePub and other formats. Since they are owned by Amazon, this will never happen.
So currently we are stuck with built-in commercial dictionaries (e.g. Sony) or DRM-free dictionaries (e.g. PocketBook). Both work, because there is indeed no need for a dictionary to be in any particular format to work with ePubs. To get generic commercial dictionary support we need some format that dictionary vendors will use that can be licensed for dedicated reading devices.
|
True I presume, but that's a different answer.
The assertion was that the epub format precluded dictionary support.