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Originally Posted by bounce
Came on today to make a feature request that I noticed was implemented in today's update (dictionary list). Will look into those import functions.
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In a future Marvin release, it will be possible to export the Vocabulary Lists using the HTML and CSV formats. Import/restore/merge will work for them as well, just as they do for highlights and annotations.
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Originally Posted by Mike76
Is there any chance to implement feature of using custom dictionaries (for example StarDict ones) in the future?
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StarDict dictionaries have been discussed earlier in this thread. It appears they are out-of-date, and there may be copyright issues with them.
I'm eagerly awaiting the announced
Translate button in Marvin, too. Once it's there, it will (for example) transfer the reader to a 3rd-party translation app or service. I use the Lingvo app currently, for e-books in languages such as Russian and Polish, for which iOS offers no internal dictionaries. Lingvo gives you both definition and translation dictionaries, of top professional quality (such as from the Collins publishing house), which I'm afraid isn't quite true of StarDict dictionaries.
Especially now with the new Vocabulary List feature in Marvin, I can't wait to see that
Translate button implemented. Right now, when reading a Russian book in Marvin, I first need to (seemingly uselessly) press the
Define button, so that the word gets stored in Marvin's Vocabulary List. Then I need to press the
Copy button, and then I need to switch to the Lingvo app manually. That's 3 steps. As soon as we get the
Translate button in Marvin, it should be possible to merge those 3 steps into a single tap of the
Translate button.
