Thanks, Kris!
In terms of dictionary integration, you might want to look at the Vietnamese app called eBookMobi. (It supports both MOBI and EPUB books.) A friend of mine who was likewise delighted by Marvin the other day (and called it "the ideal studying tool" as soon as iCloud sync arrives) uses eBookMobi to read Russian e-books because unlike the mainstream apps, it supports a Russian dictionary. You can download and integrate Stardict dictionaries (support for up to 105 languages!) in eBookMobi. It would be cool to have similar functionality in Marvin, so we don't need to wait until Apple makes official dictionaries available for additional languages in future iOS versions. Of course, there are two types of dictionaries:
- definitions
- translations
Should you decide to support the second type of dictionaries in Marvin, too, you could then add another button to the pop-up that appears after the user taps a word: there could be the
Translate button in addition to the
Define button.