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iwayasu · 09-09-2019, 08:28 AM

As everyone knows, you can highlight word on a kindle to look them up in dictionaries. However, when you highlight more than four words, there will be no option to look it up. Its not much of a problem in most languages, but happens to be a real pain when reading Japanese, as each character counts for a word. Is there anyway to look up more than 4 words at a times somehow (perhaps through jailbreaking)? I tried searching for this but there doesn't seem to be any existing discussion on this anywhere.

09-09-2019, 08:28 AM	#1
iwayasu Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2019 Device: Kindle PaperWhite 3	Looking up more than 4 characters/words on the kindle in dictionary As everyone knows, you can highlight word on a kindle to look them up in dictionaries. However, when you highlight more than four words, there will be no option to look it up. Its not much of a problem in most languages, but happens to be a real pain when reading Japanese, as each character counts for a word. Is there anyway to look up more than 4 words at a times somehow (perhaps through jailbreaking)? I tried searching for this but there doesn't seem to be any existing discussion on this anywhere.