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Originally Posted by Lupin
Great. I applied for participation too. There should be a dictionary for most European languages, but somehow I feel that it won't happen.
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oh give it some time. i am actually pleasantly surprised that the english and italian dictionaries are up for beta-test already so shortly after the odyssey got released. it is possible that bookeen never planned to release any other dictionaries than french to keep development time/money low. and now that so many people outside of france buy them, bookeen can justify the cost. or they simply rushed to get the odyssey out before christmas, which worked, just not with all the features they wanted.
and who knows - maybe after the beta-test there will be more languages available. i cannot imagine a dictionary needs beta testing - but the implementation into the odyssey might need tested - on how to choose a dictionary to automatically select one for the book you are reading, show more than one dictionary at the same time. now that would be nice to have for multilingual readers like me - show the english-english descripition up top, and a quick translation english->german in the bottom. you set your primary language in the settings and done. or choose to have description OR translation (for me again always to german if available).
and what about an english book - and someone inside says some words in french. now i would be dumbfounded, and that would be for sure a word i would like to look up - but not in the english dictionary, but in the french->english one. but only once, for this word ...