Several years ago I bought on the page www.mobipocket.com dictionaries which you could use with the free dictionary software for many operation systems.
The last dictionary I bought in 2011. Altogether I paid 70 Euros, about 90 $ for these dictionaries.
But then mobipocket was sold to Amazon.
The mobipocket website is still available but no more purchases are possible. the dictionaries you can still download.
What the users of mobipocket files hits is that you cannot download the mobipocket reader, which
you need to run the dictionaries.
You cannot use the dictionaries anymore on any new device or new operation systems.
So my purchase gets worthless. Of one dictionary I had one year of use of the others between 4 to 5 years.
I do not think that such is legal.
Amazon should at least allow the use of mobipocket dictionaries as user dictionaries on their kindles or the kindle software. This is not difficult as you can read mobipocket format files on the kindle but you can't read the paid mobipocket files on the kindle. Is it legally possible to achieve that. Who can do that?
The last dictionary I bought in 2011. Altogether I paid 70 Euros, about 90 $ for these dictionaries.
But then mobipocket was sold to Amazon.
The mobipocket website is still available but no more purchases are possible. the dictionaries you can still download.
What the users of mobipocket files hits is that you cannot download the mobipocket reader, which
you need to run the dictionaries.
You cannot use the dictionaries anymore on any new device or new operation systems.
So my purchase gets worthless. Of one dictionary I had one year of use of the others between 4 to 5 years.
I do not think that such is legal.
Amazon should at least allow the use of mobipocket dictionaries as user dictionaries on their kindles or the kindle software. This is not difficult as you can read mobipocket format files on the kindle but you can't read the paid mobipocket files on the kindle. Is it legally possible to achieve that. Who can do that?
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