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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not that straightforward. Sony would need to define a dictionary format (you need to have a special format for dictionaries to allow efficient lookups) and then provide tools to allow the major publishers of dictionaries - Oxford, Collins, Chambers, Websters, etc - to do the probably considerable work of converting their dictionaries to that new format and pursuade those publishers that it's commercial worth their while to do it.
It's not a 5 minute job.
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True... but it Sony provides a tool to convert an existing Mobi format dictionary to Sony's format/indexing then the dictionary makers could quickly make their content available.
Of course, Sony has never had a lookup dictionary feature before. So, if they haven't even started on putting this feature in to the reader than it could be a while. Also, if they are using Adobe's code for the PDF readers they would need to work with Adobe to have the dictionary lookup work the same in PDF/ePub books as it does with BBeB books.
All that said I wouldn't expect to see dictionary lookup on a 700 for quite a while... unless the open source community does it.
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