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Originally Posted by Hmcaun
The main reason I'm asking this is that I'd like to make use of such a feature for looking up dictionary definitions from an EPUB file. That seems to me the only solution for having an Italian dictionary - albeit illegally obtained - on e-reading devices that offer none.
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The original legendary PocketBook 301 and 360 had a number of unique features.
One of them was the possibility to use an user-created dictionary. The manufacturer released a dictionary builder that enabled users to create custom dictionaries. Legal ones - the most famous created from an old, out-of-copyright English dictionary from 1913, lots of dictionaries created from free ones, such as star-dict and also Not-so-legal ones created from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Some dictionaries can be still found on the net.
The PocketBook company no longer strives to make their readers as configurable as possible and hasn't released an SDK or dictionary builder in quite a while, but the new firmware is still somehow backward compatible.
If I needed to have an e-ink reader with a dictionary, I would get one of Android e-ink readers and install one of many reading apps that support external dictionaries, free or paid.