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Originally Posted by ficbot
I read in French on my Kindle. Two problems I have had with it:
- it limits you to one language per book. I have a Jules Verne omnibus which has his complete works, and what they did is use English translations where available, and if a translation was not available, they included the French version rather than omit it completely. The kindle treats this omnibus as an English book (and it 80% is) so if I want to use the French ditionary to read the French parts, I have to manually change it over. With books it recognizes as French books, it will use the proper dictionary automatically.
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I thought I had to always select a corresponding dictionary when I change a book in a language to one in another on my Kindle. It looks this not correct.
But this explains a problem I once had. One of my German books did not work with the Pons GE-EN dictionary. Checking words on this book did not show results. I checked the meta data of this book to find it as marked as an English book. After changing it to be a German book. The dictionary worked with the book. Now I understand the Kindle assigned an English dictionary to this book automatically even thought the German dictionary is selected as a PRIMARY dictionary. I will verify this, when I go home. I am now traveling in Oporto.