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Old 12-13-2013, 11:48 PM   #1
bobafruit
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Device: paperwhite 2
Vocabulary builder

Has anybody looked at the .db file that vocabulary builder uses?

I was very much put off by the vocabulary builder words being completely deleted when I changed the registration on my Kindle, but I did some digging and I want to share what I found.

After installing USBNetwork on my PW2 I noticed that I can access the Vocabulary builder files, and after opening the .db file in notepad I see it is "SQLite format 3"

... and so I download a nice little database browser http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/
and in no time at all I can export .CSV files and import them into ANKI, and so avoid the rather slow and feature limited Vocabulary builder but still have the benefits of automatically added words while I'm reading.

only problem is the Kindle doesn't seem to store the definition in the database (which makes sense given how the dictionary is implemented, but makes a little more work)
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