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thanks to everyone who replied trying to help me with this.

Tomsem,

Yes my Latin dictionary shows up under English and I have it selected as default on my paperwhite (although with this I'm using my iphone to read). I have the same dictionary you do, and I also have the later, more advanced dictionary made by the same guy - "A Latin Lexicon." With some Latin ebooks these work as intended, and get remembered by Kindle after I select them, with others, no.

Thank you for the link to the mobi meta editor. I tried using this app to edit my file and here is what happened.

I saw there was no dictionary input. So I changed the dictionary input to LA as you mentioned doing. I then tried the edited file with the Kindle app - no change. It still doesn't "remember" my dictionary choice. I need to manually select the Latin dictionary each time I look up a word. In the Kindle iphone app it actually shows "French - English" in the box. Of course it isn't actually giving a definition from that dictionary but it seems to be defaulting to it for this file despite the fact the file contains no French!

I assumed there must be some difference between this file and the files I have that remember the Latin dictionary when I select it, so in the mobi editor I opened a Latin book where my dictionary choice is remembered by Kindle. Well, guess what? I don't see any difference. This book also has no input or output dictionary.

So it remains a mystery to me why some files will remember my dictionary selection throughout the whole course of reading, while others forget each time.

Let me say I am not familiar with the technical aspects of all this, so if I have missed something I should have done to make it work, I hope someone will point it out to me.