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Originally Posted by HarryT
OI do support dictionaries, using something called DICT format (which, I must admit, I've never encountered before). The issue is, though, where would one buy decent dictionaries in such a format? One of the reasons I went with Mobi is that they have all the "big name" dictionaries - Oxford, Collins, Chambers, Websters, etc - available. I don't know if they are available in other formats, and I don't know if it would be either straightforward or legal to convert them from Mobi to DICT format.
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True, all true. But that's a situation specific for you. English is not my native language as you must have already found out by now and the lack of good bilingual dictionaries in mobi format is a hard fact for me. I can't even expect there will be any available in the future as the ebook market is too tiny in my region and no publisher would venture on such an uncertain ground (basically the same goes for other ebooks too). So the only options I'm left with is to use some monolingual english dictionary (which i prefer not to, because it slows me down) or to make my own. I agree that OI might not suit you as well as it might suit me.