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Originally Posted by AGB
Oh, so you're not looking for a dictionary to be used with epub books you read, but actual epub dictionaries. Well, that's a different kettle of fish.
My Sony-reader can use its inbuilt dictionary when reading books in whatever format I am reading on it. I don't think I really need the dictionary itself to be in a particular format, as long as I can use it while reading whatever book i'm currently reading and can use it as a stand-alone dictionary (which I can).
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I cannot talk for the person you quote, but, per your first paragraph, I
am looking for a dictionary, or dictionaries, I can use with epub books I read. I don't want a pre-installed dictionary unchosen and unchangeable. I want to
buy/download dictionaries that suit what I want (be they Chambers English, or Harraps French-English, as I have now, for instance). With Mobipocket on my Iliad I can buy from a reasonably large variety of dictionaries which are then used by the software as the lookup dictionaries. With epub there is not currently support for that (though I believe it's being looked at/worked on/discussed).
User-selectable dictionaries for use by dictionary-lookup is what the Mobipocket format provides for. Epub does not (as far as I know, yet).
Cheers,
Marc