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opasteen · 12-15-2007, 10:26 AM

(cross-post from MobiPocket Forum)
Am author of an ICT dictionary (English- Dutch) that I would like to offer electronically. I found MobiPocket technology very attractive as it will adapt to screen size, and will allow for an embedded database with good search capability. But the market for such a MP-dictionary is very limited because there are few eBooks on ICT sold in The Netherlands.
Therefore my question is whether an immediate bridge can be made from an MP environment to Windows (Explorer, Word, PDF etc) and back, WITHOUT having to convert these files to the MobiPocket format? After all, most of the coding is in XML (or similar) in both environments… So that in Windows one can select a word and press a key, to immediately obtain the query results from my MP dictionary. Any suggestions how that could be realised? Should I be using another eBook format? Or should I forget the possibility?

12-15-2007, 10:26 AM	#1
opasteen Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: MobiPocket	Bridge MobiPocket to Windows files for dictionary lookup (cross-post from MobiPocket Forum) Am author of an ICT dictionary (English- Dutch) that I would like to offer electronically. I found MobiPocket technology very attractive as it will adapt to screen size, and will allow for an embedded database with good search capability. But the market for such a MP-dictionary is very limited because there are few eBooks on ICT sold in The Netherlands. Therefore my question is whether an immediate bridge can be made from an MP environment to Windows (Explorer, Word, PDF etc) and back, WITHOUT having to convert these files to the MobiPocket format? After all, most of the coding is in XML (or similar) in both environments… So that in Windows one can select a word and press a key, to immediately obtain the query results from my MP dictionary. Any suggestions how that could be realised? Should I be using another eBook format? Or should I forget the possibility?