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Rojofo · 04-27-2018, 08:27 AM

Like Anacreon and others, I have a problem with my dictionaries since my Kobo Glo HD updated to 4.8.10956.

The side-loaded dictionaries that I need to read Spanish are still on the reader (as I see on inspection) but are no longer available for consultation. I cannot access them directly from a book nor by going to the dictionary list.

i have closed down the reader and rebooted it a couple of times to no avail. I have not yet had the time to take these dictionaries off the reader and put them back as suggested above.

Any other solutions tested successfully would be very welcome, as access to multiple dictionaries is a very necessary feature for me

I would also like to ask if there are now other solutions to allow using more dictionaries on the Kobo. The last time I asked I was given some helpful advice which allowed me to add a couple more dictionaries by using the "dicthtml-en-en.zip" type name to have more than one English dictionary for example. These are the ones that are now unavailable.

However, as far as I know, it is still totally impossible to have more than two dictionaries per language using this system and this is extremely poor, given the restricted nature of most available dictionaries.

The last time I asked about allowing several dictionaries using more complex names, such as dicthtml-en1-en.zip or dicthtml-en2-en.zip etc. or something of this kind, this idea was rejected out of hand and not given any consideration whatsoever. If anyone can give me an update on this, I would be very grateful.

Best to all,
Rojofo.

04-27-2018, 08:27 AM	#92
Rojofo Groupie Posts: 173 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: none	Dictionary problem with 4.8.10956 Like Anacreon and others, I have a problem with my dictionaries since my Kobo Glo HD updated to 4.8.10956. The side-loaded dictionaries that I need to read Spanish are still on the reader (as I see on inspection) but are no longer available for consultation. I cannot access them directly from a book nor by going to the dictionary list. i have closed down the reader and rebooted it a couple of times to no avail. I have not yet had the time to take these dictionaries off the reader and put them back as suggested above. Any other solutions tested successfully would be very welcome, as access to multiple dictionaries is a very necessary feature for me I would also like to ask if there are now other solutions to allow using more dictionaries on the Kobo. The last time I asked I was given some helpful advice which allowed me to add a couple more dictionaries by using the "dicthtml-en-en.zip" type name to have more than one English dictionary for example. These are the ones that are now unavailable. However, as far as I know, it is still totally impossible to have more than two dictionaries per language using this system and this is extremely poor, given the restricted nature of most available dictionaries. The last time I asked about allowing several dictionaries using more complex names, such as dicthtml-en1-en.zip or dicthtml-en2-en.zip etc. or something of this kind, this idea was rejected out of hand and not given any consideration whatsoever. If anyone can give me an update on this, I would be very grateful. Best to all, Rojofo.