[jcobban]

I would like to load as many ancient texts in the original languages, particularly classical Greek, and Biblical Hebrew, as I can onto a tablet and link them to appropriate supporting dictionaries, since while I have basic familiarity with these languages (1 year each at the university level) my vocabulary in each is distinctly finite. I intend to spend the coming summer at a dig on Cyprus and cannot haul my bookshelves with me. However support for ancient languages appears to challenge the capabilities of e-reader software. For example even if the e-reader supports displaying a Greek character set, it only appears to support modern Ellenika Demotica (ISO 639-1 code el) and not Classical Greek (ISO 639-2 code grc), and therefore I would not be able to load the appropriate dictionary, even though the two languages are almost as different as modern Italian and classical Latin. For example "fish" in modern Greek is "psari" as opposed to "ikhthous" in classical Greek. The identification field for language in E-book metadata references IETF RFC 3066 which permits use of the 3-character language codes in ISO 639-2, but I cannot find any documentation for any e-reader or software which explains what it supports.

I am looking for user experience in this area.

Also Liddell & Scott, the standard classical Greek to English dictionary is available as an e-book, but I would prefer a version encoded as a lookup dictionary, that is in a form such that clicking on a word in an e-book with language code "grc" would pop-up a matching definition from Liddell & Scott, the way that my e-reader works when I am reading a book in a modern language. That way I would not have to switch between two open books.