Firstly, I have an Iliad V2, running 2.12, for whatever that's worth.
I recently bought the
Chambers Dictionary and
Harraps Shorter French-English Dictionary.
I am experiencing no problems with the Chambers.
However, with the French-English, it will not work with some specific books,
but only on the Iliad (ie. it works fine on Mobipocket Reader on the laptop).
Initially I thought it was a problem with my relocating my books from the Iliad's internal memory to a compact flash card. I did some mucking around there (removing books, resending them from the laptop, simply dragging the dictionary across manually), but no success. I also removed the compact flash card altogether (changing the settings for locations on the Iliad), relocating the books back to internal memory, in case that was the problem. I did all this initially because I hadn't realised it was ebook-specific. It was during these investigations that I found this out.
In the end, I narrowed it down to the fact that, as shown in Mobipocket Reader on my laptop, the ebooks that cannot "see" the French-English dictionary on the Iliad are those that have anything other than "neutral" in the language field.
For instance, my 6 ebook volumes of Proust's
In Search of Lost Time have a language of "en-us". Other books ("public domain", often obtained from here) have a language of "en" or "en-gb" or, one I created myself "en-au".
Note that the languages of the Chambers Dictionary (which all ebooks seem to find), and the French-English Dictionary (which only the "neutral" seem to find), are, respectively:
en<->en
fr<->en
(Note the "<->" is a two-ended arrow, unlike the "en-us" for example, which just has the "-")
So, that's where I am stuck. It looks to little old ignorant me that I either change the language of all the books to neutral, or change the language of the French-English Dictionary (fr<->en) to the same as the Chambers (en<->en). One involves changing a lot of books; one involves changing one book. Either I am prepared to do.
If this is possible, my question is, "How?"
(Apologies if I've missed something. I've been looking at this all day, so it's all a bit messed up in my head at the moment.)
Cheers, with thanks in advance,
Marc