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Does this have a proper translate function?
As in, can it use Google Translate or WordReference to translate via a tap? If not, I'd definitely definitely recommend trying to incorporate that. It's genuinely the most frustrating thing about ereaders at the moment for me, that they don't properly utilise the web translation services available to them.
I'm considering buying an iPad at the moment just because it seems the most likely platform to find an app that might eventually incorporate them. I wouldn't really be interested in many apps, but I'd definitely pay like 20euro if I could find one that did just that one thing. I think a lot of people would be really interested in it too, because foreign dictionaries are only really useful for people at a high enough level already, and even as a college student in a language, I find them a right pain to use. I'd definitely recommend it to a lot of people.
As regards implementation, you could try implement them directly, or if that's not possible due to licencing etc...I know WordReference has a search engine script that you can incorporate into your browser, so if you type fr:en <word> into your address bar for example, you'd automatically be directed to the page with the english translation of a french word. Maybe that could be used in some way?
There's literally no feature I want more out of an ereader than that. Paragraphs, spacing, all that can be unattractive if I could just have that one thing. And I think it'd be a hugely popular feature too.
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