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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Unfortunately no. Mobi has a standard for dictionaries. Every reader that supports mobi also has to support dictionary lookup for those mobi dictionaries. It is beyond me why epub does not have a standardized dictionary (not sure about epub3, have not checked that out in detail).
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No, no dictionary support in ePub 3.
I completely agree with you that it's a real shortcoming with ePub. With Mobi, you could buy your device, and then get whatever dictionary you wanted for it - and pretty much all the commercially published dictionary are available, from Oxford, Chambers, Collins, Webster, etc.
With ePub, every device maker has to reinvent the wheel, and come up with their own dictionary implementation, and only the big players - the Sonys and B&Ns of this world - can afford to license decent, modern, commercial dictionaries. The smaller players, such as Bookeen and Pocketbook, can only use what's in the public domain.