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Originally Posted by osnova
Could you explain this a bit more or at least point to where I can read about it? Is the changing ASIN an attempt to fool the software Kindle into thinking that the new dictionary is the standard Amazon dictionary?
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I made a thread about it :
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=dictionaries .
What I did for example, and it worked in K4PC 1.6 :
- got the Duden through Kindle 4 PC, it will automatically download when you try to get the definition in a book with the language metadata set to German
- use a tool (I don't remember which) to get the ASIN from this dictionary (the dictionary can be found in the normal library directory : "My Kindle Content" directory, and it's easily spotted as usually you don't have many ~20MB files)
- buy a German -> French dictionary from mobipocket.com, and DeDRM it
- set its ASIN with the one found in the 2nd step
- close K4PC if it's started
- move the original Duden dictionary away from the "My Kindle Content" directory
- move the new dictionary to the "My Kindle Content" directory
- start K4PC and that's it : it shouldn't list the dictionary in your library, but when you're looking for a definition in a book with the correct language metadata (i.e german in my case), it will get the translation from my mobipocket dictionary.
To sum up if the program finds the american english meta-data language in the book you're reading, it will look for a dictionary with a given ASIN, same for the other 2 languages, so far the program has 3 dictionaries pre-set. Get the ASIN from one of them, put it in your dictionary, and your books with the given language meta-data will open your dictionary.
Note that the program doesn't display the 3 pre-set dictionaries in your library, if you want to make them appear, just change their ASIN. You can have 2 copies of the same dictionary : one with the correct ASIN used for instant lookup and one to use as a normal dictionary / book in your library.