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Originally Posted by Archilochus
I might be mistaken, but this is my current understanding of Kindle e-readers: The devices include one or more monolingual dictionaries for each of the supported menu languages,
English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese,
but that is it. Additional dictionaries can be added, but must be purchased. I believe the English monolinguals are the same as Sony's. I think the Spanish is Diccionario de la Real Academia, and I can't remember the rest. The monolinguals are indeed very good.
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You are correct about the Kindle dictionaries, but you're not correct about them being the same as the Sony's dictionaries. Although both the Sony and the Kindle have English dictionaries based on Oxford English dictionaries, the Kindle's dictionary is a lot more comprehensive than the Sony's.