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Old 05-20-2010, 02:59 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey View Post
Sorry, didn't read the previous posts carefully. So to answer my own questions, yes the battery is user-replaceable, Italian>English is not (yet) possible, and the new Pocketbook 360 with the language pack will cost 259 euros. This is 20 euros more than the current model, so assuming there are no other differences I guess I should go ahead and get the current version. Does this come with an English-English dictionary, or any other dictionaries? From what I've read it seems likely that two-way dictionaries will be coming before too long (?). Or is there an Italian>English dictionary already that can be uploaded? I'm just about sold on the Pocketbook 360...!
Italian-English is possible with free dictionaries. I don't have one in my PB because I don't need it, being Italian and having practically no ebook in Italian on the PB (they're just beginning to sell them properly now!); it also probably depends on the level of the dictionary you want to use. The free ones (with a few exceptions) are quite basic, and if you don't know, say, the proper infinitive form for a verb you have to scroll- just like Kacir said for Russian and Slavonic languages, Romance languages work the same way; so if you don't know the "forms" yet (paradigms, in old grammar) it's harder to use them for- say- verbs.
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