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Old 07-10-2013, 06:06 AM   #16
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I read in (in order of competence/interest) Spanish, French, English, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic. [...]
IMHO, the closest reader or app would be the Kindle.

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(1) support for non-Roman characters,
The Kindle fonts cover pretty much any common alphabet including, but not limited to, (polytonic) Greek, Arabic and Turkish. However, the default Arabic glyphs are really hard to read and vowel signs are not supported for larger font sizes.

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(2) monolingual (not translation) dictionaries.
The Kindle comes with 7 free commercial monolingual dictionaries (English US/UK, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese). Except for the French dictionary, Amazon has licensed the top notch dictionary for each language (Oxford, Lo Zingarelli, Duden, RAE, Priberam).
You can check out these 7 dictionaries by installing any of the free Kindle apps. (The non-English dictionaries are downloaded on demand if you open an ebook with non-English language metadata and try to look up a word in it.)

Since you most likely already have lots of epubs, maybe an Android tablet with Moon+ Reader and the Kindle app might fit the the bill.
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Old 07-10-2013, 06:39 AM   #17
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The Kindle comes with 7 free commercial monolingual dictionaries (English US/UK, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese).
Also Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, if memory serves me correctly.
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Also Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, if memory serves me correctly.
AFAIK, Amazon only provides a monolingual Japanese dictionary (Daijisen) and an English-Japanese dictionary (Shogakukan) for free.
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Free is nice, but availability is a must ^^. Some people write these dictionaries afterall...

On the Kindle, I would be concerned about storage space. If you read in five languages, you might want a monolingual dictionary on each language plus a translation dictionary back to your own language. That's 9 dictionaries. With the limited storage space on the Kindle, you should better stick to books in two languages only...
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Free is nice, but availability is a must ^^. Some people write these dictionaries afterall...
Unlike some other readers whose dictionaries cannot be changed, installing a dictionary on a Kindle is as easy as transferring a Kindle book. (There's no jailbreak or firmware update required.) It's also relatively easy to create a custom dictionary from a tab delimited word list. The tricky part is finding a free word list with enough coverage.

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On the Kindle, I would be concerned about storage space. If you read in five languages, you might want a monolingual dictionary on each language plus a translation dictionary back to your own language. That's 9 dictionaries. With the limited storage space on the Kindle, you should better stick to books in two languages only...
The size of the default monolingual dictionaries is only 15 to 20 MB per dictionary, leaving ample space for other books. I have an old K3 and haven't encountered any space issues even though I've lots of dictionaries and ebooks installed.
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I wrote a number of posts on the Pocketbook forum about getting PB 602 to display Arabic fonts properly. It is buggy, but if you fiddle with the fonts every time you open an Arabic epub, you can get it to work. I don't know if Pocketbook fixed the problems in later ereaders. I would like to see if Onyx does it right. One problem with Pocketbook is that they don't pay attention to any bug reports in English, so they never responded to my reports about Arabic bugginess. Frustrating.

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I have no personal experience but it seems from this video that onyx and pocketbook support RTL language epubs : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5z7oXH_LrA
I do not know how good the support is.

I would actually prefer pdf files as pdf files on onyx read as fast as epub. I once loaded an Idries Shah story book by mistake on my Onyx and the text was displayed in FBReader and CoolReader but not in PDFReader
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