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Old 12-26-2010, 06:42 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by LenEdgerly View Post
On a Kindle, does anyone know a convenient way to read a document in French (like the newspaper Le Monde) and look up the words in English translation? Thanks,
Len Edgerly,
The Kindle Chronicles podcast
Contrary to what has already been said, the answer is: yes.
But only if you know how to de-DRM Mobipocket dictionaries (there are threads about this on Mobileread, but you have to search for exact procedure elsewhere, so as not to provoke the corporate rage).
Once you know how, it works as simple as it could be. I have several bilingual dictionaries on my Kindle and in fact K3 can also recognize the document language (if it is set in the properties), so I do not even have to manually set different dictionaries for different documents.

A Fr-En dictionary I use is this one:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/...sp?BookID=9193

Alternatively, you can produce your own dictionary from a Stardict dictionary database (also discussed earlier on Mobileread, eg. here: http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/sh...ad.php?t=20480).
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