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Originally Posted by Robertb
Yes, I am remiss on the dictionary. We NEED a good one; and all I could find was a 1913 dictionary.
I will email my friends at Fictionwise NOW and ask them to research this. Jinke had the same 1913 Dictionary and that is lousy. If I can find something decent ALL future EZ Readers and Mentors will have a dictionary,
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So far as I know, there are only three large non-commercial English dictionaries. The MOBI versions are
Dictionary, Webster's: Webster's Dictionary 1913, v1, 22 Nov 07,
GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, and
Wordnet Dictionary for Mobipocket. I don't know of any similar dual language dictionaries which are definitely legal to distribute (there are some "freely available", but it is difficult to get their copyright status). These are in MOBI format for a reason, MOBI provides the best dictionary support that I have seen and there are many DRMed commercial MOBI dictionaries. It is even possible to use MOBI dictionaries in non-MOBI applications (as has been done by iRex on the Digital Reader - this obviously involves invoking the MOBI Reader as a "helper" app).
There are dictionaries for eReader, but I don't know how well they work.
The Kindle comes bundled with the New Oxford American Dictionary, which Amazon is presumably paying a licence fee for. Even though the Kindle software is MOBI-based, most MOBI dictionaries are not supported on the Kindle. One interesting thing about this dictionary on the Kindle is that it is in the firmware. This approach might allow a licensed commercial dictionary to be installed without DRM, which is important because there are DRM-free dictionary applications for Linux (and OpenInkPot is even writing their own).