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Originally Posted by barrow
Thanks Harry. You're right, the Kindle does let you change the default dictionary, so in effect there are already "replacement dictionaries" in foreign languages. However, making this change does not allow the new dictionary to be the "lookup dictionary", that thing you do "on the fly" when picking a word in the text. So in effect, it doesn't really allow you to change dictionary at all.
You can only ever use the lookup function in English.
For the record, I don't deny the right of Amazon to make it English only if they choose. It is their company, their language, their product, they can do whatever the hell they want. Good luck to them!
Interesting that the European produced (is it french?) Cybook offers multi-dictionary/language support, but the equivalent Amazon and Sony products from the States do not.
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Sorry, but that's wrong. You can add for example standard .prc dictionaries (stripped from DRM and ported to DRM-free .mobi), set them as default and the default one is used for lookup.
Just checked to make sure. Kindle 2 uses my German-English dictionary for lookup.