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Old 12-16-2018, 12:42 PM   #488
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With the new update, the native ereading app handles external dictionaries differently. Instead of giving you a separate external dictionary option, it lets you order your dictionaries, and it provides the definition from the first dictionary it finds a definition in. I initially noticed that it was sometimes using the English explanatory dictionary instead of the Webster's 1913 Dictionary. As a further test, I loaded a German book into it and clicked on some German words. Where the German word didn't match an English word, it provided the definition from the German-English dictionary I had installed, and I have this dictionary at the bottom of my list of dictionaries. This behavior can be very helpful for reading books with words in foreign languages, though I do prefer the old behavior of listing all external dictionary definitions together. To order your dictionaries, tap the A-Z dictionary icon in the top right corner of the definition box.

While things are looking up for the dictionary, the native ereading app will still put spaces before punctuation marks, and it will still run some words together. Interestingly, I noticed that when I pressed on a word that had been run together with another word, it treated them as a single word and tried to look it up.

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