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Originally Posted by karunaji
Original Mobipocket reader on PC supports multiple dictionaries. When you select a word lookup it can give you a choice among multiple entries and even multiple dictionaries. It is important because many inflected wordforms can be interpreted differently and the first match is not always the best one.
Kindle support is limited in this regard. Also when you browse the dictionary itself, it doesn't support inflections at all. Also Kindle does not support lookup for Asian languages and even for Russian.
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This statement doesn't make any sense. Kindle software support dictionary inflections when they have to and it is useful: inside the book. If you are typing a word you want to look up, why on earth are you going to type "faster", when you can perfectly type "fast". This is not a problem at all.
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Originally Posted by karunaji
Probably, these details are outside of the scope of the format. Even using mobipocket dictionary format requires that a reader software implements these features. I used to favor mobipocket on this count but after careful consideration I no longer think that it discredits epub format. After all, dictionary format is simply a list of paired headwords and entries. It is very simple concept and it is the software that has to do most of the job to use it. Of course, we need a commonly accepted format for dictionaries too but it is not a technical issue but the question of an agreement.
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That the point. Since a dictionary standard is so easy to make, why ePub doesn't have one? And, I insist, dictionary standard definition is more important than blockquote, embedded font and so on. I daresay, it's essential.