[Rojofo]

Merry Christmas to all!

Having had my dictionary loading problems solved, I would now love to find a better, more complete custom Spanish to English dictionary.

The ordinary Kobo Spanish to English dictionary is not so bad but often I can't directly find the word I'm looking for.

There are two reasons for this. The first, obviously, is that the word is not in the dictionary. Consequently, I would love to have a more complete dictonary — one with South American usage as well would be great.

Secondly, there is a specific problem with Spanish (and probably other languages but not English!) which is the complex inflectional system. For example, looking up "dandoselo" directs you to "dar", however, too often, this doesn't work.When you come across an unknown complex verb form, you are told that the word is not in the dictionary, especially if the verb is not very frequent, even though the infinitive is in the dictionary.

So a good "reading" dictionary would have to be very different from a simple "paper" dictionary put into a Kobo-readable form. A good "reading" dictionary should have a complete list of all the possible forms of the verb, including all of the possible suffixed pronouns. Normal paper dictionaries don't include these forms as you can generally easily derive the infinitive. In Spanish the number of these forms is surprisingly large!

Of course, there is an annoyingly round-about way of solving this problem with a "poorer" dictionary. You quit the book you are reading, go to the home page of the Kobo, summon up the Spanish/English dictionary and then type in and look up what you think is the infinitive of the verb, which, often enough, is indeed present (despite the fact you were originally told that the word is not in the dictionary when you looked it up inside the book you are reading). This time-wasting solution is what I would like to avoid in a good "reading" dictionary by having all the verb forms and other derived forms directly accessible inside the book itself, giving immediate access to the infinitive and its translation.

Given these conditions, I wonder if anyone could point out to me a "good" Spanish to English custom dictionary, more complete than the ordinary Kobo dictionary ?

Many thanks,
Rojofo.