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likewater · 11-17-2011, 05:11 PM

I have a US Kindle 4. It came w/ the standard dictionaries (Oxford etc.). I would like to read German books so I would like to have a German Dictionary on my Kindle device.

Curiously, Kindle for PC comes with a great German dictionary (German-German not German-English) but... you can not buy that dictionary. Bizarre.

So via Calibre I found a nice German-English dictionary. Loaded the mobi file to kindle via USB, but is views it as an English dictionary and will not use it to translate the German text.

Calibre metadata conversion:
I converted the source language of the book to German (originally it was set to English) inside of Calibre, the exported it to device from within Calibre, but again, the Kindle views this book as an English dictionary.

Poking around inside Calibre's folder for the book the XML in the "metadata.opf" file states:
<dc:language>deu</dc:language>
deu ~ Deutsch aka German.

Perhaps the language is also inside the *.mobi file and that still states English? Any ideas on how to successfully convert the file to german and export to a US Kindle would be appreceiated.

Thanks!

11-17-2011, 05:11 PM	#1
likewater Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kindle	Unable to convert foreign language dictionary for Kindle I have a US Kindle 4. It came w/ the standard dictionaries (Oxford etc.). I would like to read German books so I would like to have a German Dictionary on my Kindle device. Curiously, Kindle for PC comes with a great German dictionary (German-German not German-English) but... you can not buy that dictionary. Bizarre. So via Calibre I found a nice German-English dictionary. Loaded the mobi file to kindle via USB, but is views it as an English dictionary and will not use it to translate the German text. Calibre metadata conversion: I converted the source language of the book to German (originally it was set to English) inside of Calibre, the exported it to device from within Calibre, but again, the Kindle views this book as an English dictionary. Poking around inside Calibre's folder for the book the XML in the "metadata.opf" file states: <dc:language>deu</dc:language> deu ~ Deutsch aka German. Perhaps the language is also inside the *.mobi file and that still states English? Any ideas on how to successfully convert the file to german and export to a US Kindle would be appreceiated. Thanks!