Pleco for e-ink readers

[LeonardoM]

I wish Pleco was available to use on e-readers.
It would obviously lack some functionalities, but it would be an awesome way to have a full mandarin dictionary that still allows for pinyin or draw-with-finger search.

Has anyone been able to use it on an e-reader yet?

Or:

Do you know if there any plans for it?

 

[Krytes42]

I wish Pleco was available to use on e-readers.
It would obviously lack some functionalities, but it would be an awesome way to have a full mandarin dictionary that still allows for pinyin or draw-with-finger search.

Has anyone been able to use it on an e-reader yet?

Or:

Do you know if there any plans for it?

It works perfectly fine, you just need an Android e-reader. Using the file reader on my Boox Tab Mini C looks like this:

 

[shaluig]

I agree with Krytes, it works! Not "perfectly fine", since my device is an old Onyx C67ML, I would say "fine"

Like Kryte said, it does not work on ALL eReader, you will need an eReader on which you can install android apps.
Mine begins to be really slow, so I recently ordered and received (yesterday) a brand new BigMe B1051C, which got color

Only had the time to open it and use it a little bit, Pleco is still not installed, but I guess I will see the difference, compared to my 8 years old device.

 

[Shun]

I only have a much cheaper Kindle Paperwhite, without Pleco, but it includes Chinese dictionaries, too.

 

[catusf]

If you want to get your hand wet, you can make custom dictionaries for any Kindle too.

 

[Shun]

Thanks a lot! CC-CEDICT would be a good candidate. I saw that someone has already made it easy to do that:

GitHub - gkovacs/cantodict-kindle-mobi: CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary for Kindle with Mandarin and Cantonese (mobi format)

CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary for Kindle with Mandarin and Cantonese (mobi format) - gkovacs/cantodict-kindle-mobi

github.com

His Python script can generate both the CC-CEDICT and the Cantodict for Kindle from the newest data.

 

[catusf]

FYI: The input for making Kindle dictionaries is very similar to Pleco flashcard/custom dictionaries. So if you want you can take any flashcards in this forum and convert them to Kindle format, then sideload to your Kindle devicea or Android or Windows apps.

I am not aware of any ways to sideload to iOS Kindle apps.