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Originally Posted by pierre71
Hi there !
I m looking for an eink device with the following mandatory features:
Support for Classical Greek, Biblical Hebrew and Japanese.
Optional features that I would be interested in:
- waterproof (as in stuck in a bag that fell in the pool or left under the rain for a night).
- default support for inflexion dictionaries, if not possible then support with third party document reader.
- Existing dictionaries for the above mentioned languages.
- Linux desktop friendly.
I know nearly nothing about those type of devices. I first compared Kindle and Kobo and felt Kobo more appealing (default epub support). Reading this forum I realise there is also the pocketbook market and some third party viewer such as Koreader or Platon that may or may not support inflexion dictionaries.
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You might want to consider an Android reader if dictionary support is important to you. I use aard2 with offline wiktionary as my dictionary on my Nova 3 and Hisense A5 Pro. It is able to find most Finnish words, which are highly inflected. Wiktionary also has a lot of Ancient Greek. I don't know anything about Japanese or Hebrew support, though.
Unfortunately, the dictionaries on Kindle, Kobo and Pocketbook are lacking for inflected languages. My Kindle is good for only English and Spanish (on Android I have dictionaries for Russian, Ukrainian, Finnish, etc. working just fine).
I use Linux and haven't had a problem managing these devices on there. I mostly use syncthing to sync my books, fonts, documents, etc between them and my computer.