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Originally Posted by EldRick
As to the dictionary, Speaking of the (beta version) English dictionary, it's pretty bad.
It starts by presenting you with several choices for a word - these are the various definitions, with no information as to what is behind each. So you have to blindly tap on each item in the list, and then you get to see almost entirely unformatted text, describing one definition of the word.
There is quite a bit of information contained in the formatting of a dictionary definition, and this dictionary is missing all of it.
It's pretty bad.
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I agree, the version Bookeen put online is just the GCIDE (with a lot of examples, phonetics, etc. that are not useful on a e-reader) in the Odyssey format.
You can try this one that I helped putting together by "cleaning up" the GCIDE:
http://www.ultimabooks.it/cybook-odyssey-dizionari
(the page is in Italian, you might want to use google translate) --- grab the two files english-english (*.dict and *.dict.idx) and copy them to your Dictionaries/ directory on the Odyssey.
It won't solve your problem with the "uninformative" list of different meanings (that's a problem with the sw of the Odyssey, not the dictionary itself), but I think it is more nimble to use.