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Originally Posted by AlPe
False. They just have to adopt some "standardized" format, like stardict or XDXF, instead of trying to play as Apple does with its devices... the "reinventing the wheel" thing is done on purpose, in this case, I suspect.
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What is the big deal with writing that into the ePub standard. As in "ePub readers must be able to support stardict". Now it is up to the manufacturer of the ePub-reading-app if they want to only support stardict. If they don't like the performance or file structure of stardict, they are free to include a tool that will generate a compiled version for the reading app. If they want to reinvent the wheel for various reasons (they cannot get a reasonable licence of a startdict dictionary e.g.) then they are free to put additional support in for a different (even propritary) format.