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Old 01-21-2012, 10:04 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by vishcompany View Post
I hope, bookeen uses the Webster just for testing purposes and will come up with something decent in the end. I still am interested in the Odyssey (i really like, how it handles fonts), but a proper English dictionary (and options do install others) is compulsory. I have no problem paying for a good dictionary. I really loved the PONS EN-GE I had bought for my Gen3 (mobi). It still is the best to me (also beats the Colins, which is on Sony).
I hope they are going to sign some agreements with some good publishers of dictionaries, so probably you are right: they are going to use these first dictionaries they published on their blog in order to "test" the response of their customers.

BTW, they have to improve their grammar algorithms a lot. Right now, they are working decently for French and partially for English, but - for example - the Italian parser lacks many features (like properly associating plural words to the root, singular word included in the dictionary)
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