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Originally Posted by fatidik
It's a bit hard to sort something out in all the answers as everyone has practically recommended a different device...
For what I understanding from my reading...
Official Kindle dictionaries are not offering most of the dictionaries I'm interested in.
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True, but they're not offered in the Kobo or Sony stores either. AFAIK, Sony and Kobo only have the usual EFIGS dictionaries.
However, even with limited technical skills you can generate your own StarDict or Kindle dictionaries from tab-delimited text files. To give you an idea about the work involved, here are the
instructions for generating Kindle dictionaries.
The process for creating StarDict dictionaries with
pyglossary is very similar and IIRC, PocketBook also offers a custom tool to generate dictionaries from text files.
You may want to do some serious googling to find out if there are Open Source word lists/dictionaries for the language combinations that you're interested in, because it's not very likely that major publishers will offer commercial dictionaries for these language combinations anytime soon. (
dict.cc has some decent lists.)
BTW, Kindles require no hacking whatsoever for dictionary installation. You simply copy the dictionary .mobi file to the designated folder to install the dictionary.
Android based eInk readers also don't require any hacks, if they have access to the Google play app store.
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Originally Posted by fatidik
The easiest option sounded the googletranslate option.
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IMHO, for less known languages GT results for single words are often pretty much useless, because Google Translate uses an
SMT algorithm, which can be hit or miss.
Why don't you experiment with generating both Kindle and StarDict dictionaries and test their functionality with the
Kindle and
StarDict Windows apps?