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Nokia n9 lacks a decent dictionary, so i ask for a decent dictionary reader that can use the words data from our Oxford Dictionary CDROM(that come with the dictionary book we bought).

BTW, iphone is supported by Oxford university press.
 
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If data isn't encrypted just write scripts to parse/grep the files. That, or petition the press to open the source, support er else
 
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I wouldn't say 'N9 lacks a decent dictionary'. If you don't mind paying money, Merriam-Webster has a few options, all decent. I have the full Unabridged installed on my N9, which is sufficient for most needs.

Being British I would prefer to see either the Chambers or the OED available (both of which I have for my desktop). The Chambers I can have on my N900, but not the N9.

I have wondered how easy it would be to have these running on a Windows server with a web app front end I could access over the internet on the N9, i.e. to my own licensed versions. I guess I would have to write the web app, which would have to simulate mouse-clicks etc to 'read' the OED database and then display the results directly in the browser - not easy for me, but for a coder I imagine relatively straightforward.
 

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