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Old 07-10-2013, 06:06 AM   #16
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I read in (in order of competence/interest) Spanish, French, English, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic. [...]
IMHO, the closest reader or app would be the Kindle.

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(1) support for non-Roman characters,
The Kindle fonts cover pretty much any common alphabet including, but not limited to, (polytonic) Greek, Arabic and Turkish. However, the default Arabic glyphs are really hard to read and vowel signs are not supported for larger font sizes.

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(2) monolingual (not translation) dictionaries.
The Kindle comes with 7 free commercial monolingual dictionaries (English US/UK, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese). Except for the French dictionary, Amazon has licensed the top notch dictionary for each language (Oxford, Lo Zingarelli, Duden, RAE, Priberam).
You can check out these 7 dictionaries by installing any of the free Kindle apps. (The non-English dictionaries are downloaded on demand if you open an ebook with non-English language metadata and try to look up a word in it.)

Since you most likely already have lots of epubs, maybe an Android tablet with Moon+ Reader and the Kindle app might fit the the bill.
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