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Indubitably! It's also only 7 years ago, so the language is likely still relatively current. Very much unlike the inexplicably popular 1913 Webster's English.
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The popularity could be due to people reading "classics" and wanting to be able to look up words that either no longer exist or have changed since.
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10-01-2020, 07:11 AM | #51 |
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To answer a question that I had asked earlier, the Oxford dictionary does include a copyright notice, so it's immediately obvious when it's installed.
I like it. It's well formatted with comprehensive definitions. I'm not sure if it beats my sideloaded Webster's 1913 dictionary, but since it's so easy to use custom dictionaries now, there's no reason not to use both. Last edited by the.Mtn.Man; 10-01-2020 at 07:14 AM. |
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By my reckoning there are 8000+ more headwords in this new Kobo Oxford English than there are in the Kindle's equivalent Oxford English. |
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Not really. It needed someone to find a replacement dictionary, convert it to a suitable format, patch and install the firmware. And repeat that when the firmware is updated. The number of people who are interested in jumping through those hoops is pretty small. Most people just want to turn the device on and read. That is a big reason for why Kindles are so popular. People know that they just work.
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Well, English-Spanish dictionary updated... best vocabulary... but a very crowded format (from my POV)
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I've yet to see any of the custom dictionaries mentioned in these forums that were remotely appealing. All seem to have been old enough to be PD, making them of little use. I'm assuming that publishers of modern dictionaries don't take kindly to having their copyrighted works disassembled and reassembled for use on an ereader. Kindle's solution made any such IP circumvention unnecessary, I'm glad that Kobo has caught up.
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