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I have a PocketBook device, and although I don't think it is advanced enough for your purposes, I'm curious about some of your claims with respect to those devices.
1) By multiple dictionary support, do you mean being able to search multiple dictionaries simultaneously? If so, it's true that PB doesn't do that. It does have support for multiple dictionaries that you can switch between, though.
2) I haven't heard of any size constraints for PB dictionaries, so I'm curious where you found that bit of information. Ron Steiner created an English-English dictionary for PB devices from the Wiktionary database. It comes to about 20 MB. I'm a bit confused about your mentioning Wikipedia. Are you suggesting creating an encyclopedia from the Wikipedia pages that would work via the device's dictionary app? It's not a bad idea, but an encyclopedia doesn't really have the same information as a dictionary, so doesn't fall nicely into the expected data format.
4) What do you mean that the PB morphology support is very limited in size? Do you mean for each entry? I've seen the list for German, and it is quite large overall.
The worst part about PB dictionaries is that they are in a proprietary format. They provide a Windows-based application for converting other open dictionary formats to their own, but it does mean that commercial offerings are quite limited.
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