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Thanks for the quick info. It is an unfortunate conspiracy of Amazon paying off the inventors of epub to create a big format war and thus boosting the Kindle even further. You don't need to put in a dictionary standard, look at all the time you save by not having to implement lookup if you create a reading-app. I do hope that Amazon did not actually do that.
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Checking the blog is unfortunately useless. It is moderated and posts won't show up unless somebody from Bookeen approves. The last comment was from me, and I did sent another one a few minutes later specifically asking how we are supposed to report our findings on the beta-test. I failed to see that they forgot to mention that. With it beeing a open beta-test the blog seams highly inapproriate, IMHO. Bookeen needs to get feedback on it. It is an easy way out to say it is a beta-test and then ignore complaints that it does not work right (but hey you did know it is only a beta-test, right?). I have never seen any beta test where the company does not appreciate feedback and even encourages it. I am sorry Bookeen, if you cannot handle thousands of people sending the same issue in multiple times, then you should not have made it a open-beta. Limit the number of beta-testers to a small number, give them access to a forum so discussions are possible, and then after the first major issues are solved, move on and increase the number of beta-testers or make it public. I do believe that there is a high number of people interested in the beta-test that just wanted a dictionary. |
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If the definition of a dictionary was a part of the ePub specification, you could buy dictionaries for any ePub device in an ePub bookstore, just like you can with Mobipocket dictionaries. How could that not be a good thing?
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01-21-2012, 10:33 AM | #33 |
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What is the big deal with writing that into the ePub standard. As in "ePub readers must be able to support stardict". Now it is up to the manufacturer of the ePub-reading-app if they want to only support stardict. If they don't like the performance or file structure of stardict, they are free to include a tool that will generate a compiled version for the reading app. If they want to reinvent the wheel for various reasons (they cannot get a reasonable licence of a startdict dictionary e.g.) then they are free to put additional support in for a different (even propritary) format.
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I'll go check the SBf-forum thread out, hopefully I can make some sense of it. |
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01-21-2012, 02:21 PM | #36 | |
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AlPe, correct me if I am wrong, but the Odyssey did infact already support a Italian dictionary before they started the beta-test for multiple dictionaries? |
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01-21-2012, 02:39 PM | #38 |
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Looks like he used the French dictionary that was already there
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No the french dictionary is not accessable - it is in a part of internal memory that cannot be seen (w/o root access). He used an Italian dictionary that was available before the beta-test for multiple dictionaries. I guess Italian people have enough pull to make Bookeen give them what they want.
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Well cut of my legs and call me shorty. Blimey. Are you sure that was there yesterday? I am just asking, because I remember reading the top part. I might have simply missed it. But I see they finally woke up and posted my comment and answered it.
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EDIT: sorry, I do not own a T1, so I do not know which format it adopts and therefore I am of no help for that. Last edited by AlPe; 01-21-2012 at 04:58 PM. |
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