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Originally Posted by AGB
Erm, just a little correction: I said I didn't have a clue about the format. Some people more into the technical side of things might very well know exactly what it is.
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But that is also part of the point. It is a dictionary solution that has to be "reverse engineered", and still might not be easily dealt with (even if those dictionaries were "ePub" in form), in the absence of other ePub dictionaries. The point of the mobipocket format is that dictionaries and dictionary-lookup are part of the format. This would allow publishers to create dictionaries in that format with confidence, and app-developers to create the necessary hooks. Dictionaries would be simply part of the bookstore (as they are with mobipocket).
That is to say, mobipocket currently provides a solution as part of it's format for dictionaries and dictionary lookup. ePub does not. Some of us want/hope/wait for this to change, (and, again, I believe the developers of the standard are looking at it) so we can with ease and confidence jump into ePub (note, I'm in the process of converting my books to ePub). I
want ePub to "win", but my personal scorecard gives heavy weight to this dictionary-lookup standardisation, and it's on the essential technical, rather than style, part of the scoring.
Cheers,
Marc