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Originally Posted by Papi
The Sony PRS / T1 do that. Unfortunately you can't add dictionaries to them, that's why I went for the Kindle.
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In my experience pocketbook is best at handling dictionaries. You can add your own, choose dynamically from within the book, browse similar entries etc. I'm not very sure about the availability of good commercial dictionaries for the pocketbook, but it's relatively easy to find or convert dictionaries on your own.
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Originally Posted by Papi
I just checked on my Kindle Keyboard, and it doesn't have the new "feature" of the Kindle NT : the dictionary used when reading a book is the same whether it's a word from the book, or a word you typed yourself.
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Interesting...
It still sounds very much like a bug to me.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
AFAIK, you can use lookup dictionaries only with Latin languages. For example, Russian or Arabic dictionaries won't work.
A workaround is the use of transliterated headwords. That's what Russian Kindle users did, when they created their Russian-English dictionary.
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That's strange, my greek dictionary works fine - at least in the few cases it can actually find the words I look up. Of course I can't type greek to directly search in it, so transliterated headworks would probably make sense for searching, but not to use as a default look-up dictionary surely.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
As for the inflections, they need to be explicitly defined by the dictionary author, because they cannot be automatically generated by kindlegen.
I.e. you'd need to find a Greek inflection list and add the entries to the source file. |
I had come across this link but I'm not sure I understand what it says. Should I add all possible inflections to all words? That is surely too much work.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
Unlike Mobipocket Reader, the Kindle doesn't support fuzzy searches. I.e. don't expect it to suggest a similar dictionary entry if it doesn't find the exact word.
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Too bad. I wrote to Amazon about it (and the other stuff I mention in this thread), but even though I got a polite reply I don't expect much to come out of it.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
As for changing the keyboard layout, there's a Kindle hack for it, but I haven't tested it myself. |
This was designed for kindle keyboard and I'm not sure it would work for my kindle 4. I'll look into it further, though.