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Old 05-27-2009, 05:00 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy View Post
Well, to be fair, converting a dictionary to be a usable Mobipocket format dictionary is an enormous amount of work. You would have to individually edit each word entry to get the lookup feature to work. Who is going to want to do that much work for a very small revenue stream? Not the average publisher, for sure. Nothing to do with Amazon, since a publisher has to provide the dictionary.
Oh, c'mon: you can buy *any* secure mobi one and dedrm it and then install it - it works fine. This is Amazon, it's clear to me, nobody else.

It seems I have no choice left but to buy one and hack it to be able to use it on my Kindle...
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