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Mabel · 07-31-2014, 05:53 PM

One of the great advantages of an ereader (or at least of my sony T3) is that i can, when reading books in a foreign language, just tap on a word and hey presto: a translation or explanation appears on screen. This feature alone could make it worth while to buy a reader, but to my astonishment it seems my device does not allow me to buy & load other dictionaries than the ones built in! There's a bunch of them and they are good-to-reasonable, but there's only one foreign language and I'd like at least 4 and of better quality as well. If I'm right and you can't add dictionaries I'm truly shocked: what a missed opportunity! I'd gladly pay twice the price of the reader itself for those additional dictionaries.
My question, then, is: are there readers around which will allow me to purchase and install additional dictionaries? And do they offer the same ease of use (just tapping on a word)?

07-31-2014, 05:53 PM	#1
Mabel Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Sony PRS-T3	Add dictionary? One of the great advantages of an ereader (or at least of my sony T3) is that i can, when reading books in a foreign language, just tap on a word and hey presto: a translation or explanation appears on screen. This feature alone could make it worth while to buy a reader, but to my astonishment it seems my device does not allow me to buy & load other dictionaries than the ones built in! There's a bunch of them and they are good-to-reasonable, but there's only one foreign language and I'd like at least 4 and of better quality as well. If I'm right and you can't add dictionaries I'm truly shocked: what a missed opportunity! I'd gladly pay twice the price of the reader itself for those additional dictionaries. My question, then, is: are there readers around which will allow me to purchase and install additional dictionaries? And do they offer the same ease of use (just tapping on a word)?