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The only tool that can convert to this format is private PocketBook’s tool called Dictionar圜onverter ( links are below), which runs only on windows ( or under wine on Linux). dic and combines definitions and index in one file. PocketBook uses custom format dictionary format, to which we must convert required dictionary, before uploading it to the device. To be sure look into files with hexadecimal editor/viewer. You cannot rely only file extensions to determine dictionary format – it can be deceiving ( for instance Bookeen is also using. Definitions are usually compressed somehow to save space (stardict uses dictzip). It depends on particular format how these two are represented ( stardict has definitions in. In order to work efficiently dictionaries usually need two data structures – terms definitions (like one above) and indexes – which enables to quickly find right definition ( I guess most implementations use some kind of binary tree to search efficiently). (n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole a sample a specimen.ĭetailed description of the XDXF format is here. Here is a small sample of one entry in XDXF file (text can contain some basic html formating – like bold, italics …): Example XDXF site also contains many dictionaries in this format. One of standard formats is XDXF, which is basically XML with terms/keys and definitions. ifo is missing it can be easily recreated – it’s text file). dict (or dict.dz – compressed definition) and. Stardict dictionary is usually composed of 3 files. Already mentioned stardict was fairly popular private format (however stardict application is abandoned, you can use it successor Goldendict, which supports stardict format). There are many private formats (actually each ebook vendor tends to use its own format) and few (if any) public standards.
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Many high quality free dictionaries are available in stardict format (for instance here for Czech language dictionaries other sites are available, which offer also other formats of dictionaries).Īctually it’s quite big mess in dictionary formats out there. One of first tasks was to get there more useful language dictionaries (there are some built in, but can get better ones).

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I personally do prefer it to Kindle because of wider format support (especially for support of epub format) and for broader possibilities how to customize the device (price wise they are basically similar to Kindle). Ukrainian and Russian programmers have been always very active in ebooks technology ( FB2 format, CoolReader, FBReader, OpenInkPot (opensource FW for ebook) and more), so no wonder they have been able to produce quite a nice device. PocketBook is an European company, which is distributing PocketBook readers, the actual development of devices is done by Ukrainian company Obreey Products. I’m great fan of ebooks and recently I changed my old Hanlin to new reader – PocketBook 626.
