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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
Glad to find a couple of Italian ebookers here, because I am very interested in reading Italian books, particularly if I can find a decent Italian>English or Italian>Italian DICTIONARY to work inside the ereader. I have not bought a reader yet but am tending strongly toward the Pocketbook 360 precisely because it seems to have more dictionaries available -- though unfortunately so far only English>Italian.
So my question, Beppe et al., is : What ebook reader would you recommend for reading Italian with a built-in or add-on dictionary?
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Hi Mdmorrissey,
There's the possibility of:
1. Kindle. I'm not sure but it should have a proper IT-EN compatible (i.e. integrated with the system) sold. But I'm not quite sure about the quality/range of these ones. Reviews and stars doesn't usually point to complete satisfaction of those dictionaries.
2. The PocketBook, which can use files from
this repository of free dictionaries. You have to convert the .dic file with a program supplied by Pocketbook, it's very very simple. The dictionaries aren't comparable to the "big" dictionaries, but they're in the mid-range, from what I could understand, which is the kind of dictionary somebody not making a translation of the whole text would usually use- if it's just to check the meaning of a word it's pretty fast (and I fear you wouldn't fall in better hands with Kindle's dictionaries- maybe Abbyy's, but I'd wait to know that from somebody else's experience
before betting on that horse). You can also set a key (or the long pressing of a key) to open the dictionary without using the menu.