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But are you looking up UK words or UK spellings of words? That could be where things fail more then using US words with US spellings.
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I think it's certainly true that Sony and Kindle have better built-in dictionaries than Kobo but it is possible to create custom dictionaries for the Kobo. I don't think it's a trivial process, though. There's a few threads about it in the Kobo Developer's sub-forum.
Over the last few years some members have posted their ready-made custom EN-EN dictionaries. Once created, loading them is a trivial drag-drop operation. By a simple cheat with filenames it's possible to have several different EN-EN loaded simultaneously which can then be accessed from the standard dictionary drop-down menu. I'm a Brit and not an especially heavy user of the dictionary feature but I can't say I've noticed any particular problems looking up words on my Kobos. If I can't find it in one EN-EN it's usually in one of the others. I suppose it's going to depend on what kind of words you need to look up. |
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I have to say that I haven't had a problem with the Kobo dictionaries not having definitions for the words I look up. I think JS Wolf may be on to something--maybe the Kobo only has a US English dictionary and not a British English dictionary, which would be unfortunate.
That being said, the Kindles definitely are the winner when it comes to dictionaries offered. When I look up a word on the Kobo, the definition is usually only a few words where as on the Kindle has a much more complete definition. |
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Currently, what is the best English dictionary? Is it one of the custom ones or is it Kobo's own? I've found out that someone has converted the Kindle Oxford dictionary for Kobo. I have no idea how easy is is to convert.
Maybe someone can come up with a program to convert Kindle dictionaries. Then we could say that Kobo is as good as the Kindle for dictionaries. |
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I don't know if I am correct or not. I'll have to try reading a book that has some British words to see if they appear in the dictionary. |
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The Kobo dic is adequate for my needs. I'm currently reading a medieval historical, and it's had definitions for all of the words I've looked up. If it doesn't, or I need more information, I just hit the search button to search Wikipedia or Google.
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Not only the Dictionaries themselves are far, far better on the Kindle, but in languages where word or verbs are being declined / conjugated (my personal experience is with German, Spanish, French and English) they always find the words/verbs I am looking for. The Kobo Dictionaries don't always, more often than I need. If you only read in one language, you don't see it. But as soon as you read in more than one (I read in 4, and although my level is advanced or proficiency in 3 of them, I still use dictionaries once in a while, and a lot when I am reading research essays), this is evident. But if you don't need the dictionaries, than H2O does a brilliant job. It is just that I would like you guys to be accurate in your descriptions when advising a newbie. So, uppopn2, again. :
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Personally, the only must-have hacks for me are the screensavers hack (current book's cover) and the collections manager hack (I hate managing collections on a six-inch screen, one book at a time). Note: I believe the Kobos do both natively, although they don't do nested collections. (Neither does the Kindle post-fw5.4.0, one reason I love my KT.) Most of the features I like about the Kindle are part of the stock firmware and Amazon infrastructure. |
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I read in only one language, and the Kobo dictionary is fine. What I wish it had more than a better dictionary is the Kindle's Vocabulary Builder.
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