[takikura]

Originally Posted by Zetmolm

Hi Takikura, thank you for your reply. I had a look at "Onyxreader". Installation is indeed simple, but you must convert your books and dictionaries before you can use it, which may be quite an obstacle for many people (although the tools seem to work like a charm)..

I do not know why Eduardo decided to use the text based formats. For me this is rather an advantage than a disadvantage. Since I use this reader for learning German, I often need few weeks and even few months to read a German book. So spending few minutes for converting a epub book to this format is not an issue. Since the books and dictionaries are text based, I can edit them with an editor with regular expression functionality. I did not like the way my English - Japanese dictionary was displayed, I removed some redundant characters to make them rendered nicely on the screen. Eduardo, being extremely busy guy, may have chosen the text format to let us easily manipulate the books and dictionaries rather than to change his own software.

The reader program works OK but lacks a lot of features of the original Book reader programs..

When I read English or Japanese books on eBook readers, I hardly use any other functions of eBook reader than "next page". The only function I miss with the OnyxReader is the function just to mark words checked with the dictionary. I do not need to leave a note or comment on the words, wasting my limited time available, but want them high-lighted. When I can not remember them, I could just click on them and instantly its meanings are shown in full screen. OnyxReader has a function to leave a log file recording the words checked with the dictionaries. This can substitute my wish.

The biggest disappointment for me is that "Onyxreader" does not support Russian dictionaries (or in general, dictionaries using non-Latin alphabets), which are practically the only dictionaries I need on my Boox.

I have not realized this fact. I assume you meant a dictionary for reading Russian texts. As I wrote in the above, my English - Japanese dictionaries work well as shown on the following photo.



Now I have to stop here for dinner.

takikura