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Originally Posted by rkomar
Dictionary support is not one of PocketBook's strong suits. Dictionaries need to be converted to a proprietary format (using a freely available Windows application). So, there aren't many commercial dictionaries offered for the devices. The dictionary app also doesn't support links within definitions.
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I think that this needs to be commented, because I believe - but cannot be totally sure - that PocketBook has indeed a good dictionary support. To get an idea of it, you may check out
the BookLand site area reserved for dictionaries. If the dictionaries they provide are as good as they appear - in
the English-Italian bilingual ones there seems to be one I used on Kindle, or something similar to it - then we can agree that PocketBook devices may not be so lacking on that side. They may have nevertheless their limitations, because I seem to know that any single dictionary purchased from BookLand can be used on one device only, once purchased.
As far as I know, PocketBook devices support .pbi and .dic file formats for dictionaries. (I know this from an answer received directly from the PocketBook support center.) And perhaps definition links aren't a big issue.
Something I've been wondering until now is: do PocketBook devices have a lookup feature for normal books? If the answer to this were to be affirmative, then who knows if it isn't possible to load dictionaries in the guise of normal books? The optimal condition would be to have the ability to press on a word while reading, with a dialog doing a search on one of the selected library books, which in this case should be a chosen dictionary.