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Originally Posted by kazbates
As of right now, I don't think anyone actually knows how Sony's dictionary look-up will work (with the exception of the developers at Sony). The application has not been available on their readers to date. I would hazard to guess that it will be in the LRF/X format, since that is Sony's format. As far as being able to do a search on an Epub file, I could only guess again since I have little working knowledge of Epub, but I would think that it wouldn't actually matter which format the ebooks are in. The application is basically a search engine. I could be, of course, be completely wrong and bow to the greater wisdom of the Epubn gurus here at MR.  |
There's probably no technical reason that the dictionary couldn't work with different document formats. Eg, on the iRex DR1000S, you can look up a word in a PDF document using a Mobipocket dictionary.