Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by gambiting on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:30AM
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As someone whose first language isn't English - 100000x times this. The fact that I can just hold down on any word and instantly see its definition is just incredible. It's a must have feature of any e-reader for me.
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by Derbasti on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:11AM
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Kobos have this feature
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by gambiting on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:25AM
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Didn't know that! Can you upload custom dictionaries to them? That was my only gripe with how Kindles do it - they support this feature in some languages but not others.
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by goosedragons on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:25AM
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Yeah it's possible but it's not an official feature (it's not hard though).
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by Derbasti on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:32AM
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What are you talking about? It's built right into the Kobo reader, and has been for years. https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017639893-Define-...
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by goosedragons on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:38AM
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The dictionary is a built-in official feature and includes options in few different languages but CUSTOM dictionaries are not. It's possible to add dictionaries beyond what Kobo includes but it takes a little bit of work.
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by Derbasti on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:26PM
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I missed the "custom". Sorry about that.
Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
by Derbasti on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:36AM
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It seems to be a limited selection of languages (EN, DE, ES, FR, IT, PT, TR, SE, JP on my Kobo), with both EN-XX and XX-XX available for most languages. It doesn't look like you can add your own, at least not on my kobo.
One reason I'm stuck with Kindles is because Amazon makes it sane to look up words when reading Japanese books and articles.
When you use Amazon's "Send to my Kindle" service (eg, you email a book to yourself, and then it appears on your device), Amazon seems to do some kind of de-conjugation which magically knows how to break-apart terms and grammar so that you can easily look anything up. Normally, if uploading straight to your device, or if using a Kobo, a term you want to look up has to match your on-device dictionary exactly, which is clunky and awful, especially since Japanese doesn't use spaces and has lots of inflections.
If Kobo had something similar, I'd ditch using Kindles entirely.