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Originally Posted by karunaji
As I understand Sony has not published their dictionary format therefore it is not possible to use third party dictionaries without Sony's cooperation. That's really not enough.
Some other epub readers use stardict format dictionaries. I haven't tried them but it could work for most people. I am already planning to convert my existing mobipocket dictionaries so that I don't have to buy them again when all vendors have switched to epub readers.
Amazon's dictionary support is not perfect either. It is just a byproduct of a hack job over Palm databases that is called mobipocket format. For example, their newly released Cloud reader does not support dictionaries at all.
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Kindle Cloud Reader has just been lauched. Be sure that they are going to add that feature as well as taking note and make bookmarks. Ah, and Sony doesn't have dictionary format; such thing doesn't exist. Sony just have a dozen of dictionaries embedded in their firmware. That can hardly be called "format". And the quality and selection of stardict dictionaries is infinity inferior to the ones Mobi has.