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wallcraft · 02-21-2009, 07:12 PM

I am aware of no dictionaries with DRM (or from the Kindle store) that work as the primary dictionary on the Kindle. You can use one of the publicly available DRM-free MOBI dictionaries available here as the primary dictionary on the Kindle: Webster, Noah: Webster's Dictionary 1913, GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, and Wordnet Dictionary for Mobipocket. I have only tested the GNU dictionary (not the other two), but I am anyway happy with the Oxford American so I have not switched.

I downloaded the sample of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition on the Kindle, but this is not detected as a dictionary and isn't even usable as a conventional book dictionary. The entire dictionary might be ok though, and I'm sure you will get your money back if it does not work.

02-21-2009, 07:12 PM	#13
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	I am aware of no dictionaries with DRM (or from the Kindle store) that work as the primary dictionary on the Kindle. You can use one of the publicly available DRM-free MOBI dictionaries available here as the primary dictionary on the Kindle: Webster, Noah: Webster's Dictionary 1913, GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, and Wordnet Dictionary for Mobipocket. I have only tested the GNU dictionary (not the other two), but I am anyway happy with the Oxford American so I have not switched. I downloaded the sample of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition on the Kindle, but this is not detected as a dictionary and isn't even usable as a conventional book dictionary. The entire dictionary might be ok though, and I'm sure you will get your money back if it does not work.