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Originally Posted by emai7s2
Hi mtravellerh,
Thanks for putting the PocketBook 360 on my radar. PDF support sounds exemplary, and support for Adobe Digital Editions means that I could use the PB 360 to read ebooks checked out from the public library, which is a big plus.
Could you talk a little about the dictionaries? The German web-site mentions that some dictionaries are included, and it is possible to install others.
"Mit Hilfe des vorinstallierten Wörterbuchs erhalten Sie die Übersetzung eingetippter Wörter direkt im Text. (Das Hinzufügen weiterer Wörterbücher ist ebenfalls möglich!)"
I would be interested in learning: which dictionaries are included, how well do they work, and what other dictionaries can be installed? I'm guessing that the PB 360 can handle Unicode - Eastern European/Asian character sets?  |
Dictionaries are a really nice subject to talk about! There were four dictionaries on MM when I got it but they've multiplied in the meantime. On the PocketBook site, you may find a tool to convert dictionaries to the PB format. "Eingetippt" is in fact not right. You go to dictionary over the short menu you get into by a quick flick on okay, then the page you're reading displays and the first word is highlighted. You can quickly scroll through the text in search for the word you want a definition/translation for -done. Nice: by going up, the highlight switches from the first word of the page to the last!
There's about a dozen dictionaries available right now (say, shouldn't we host those somewhere?) but you're of course free to make your own!
As for language support: I hear Thai has large spaces between words
You have, of course, to download the appropriate fonts and paste them in your fonts folder. There is native support for cyrillic! I tried to display a text using cyrillic. That looks positively alien, I tell you!!