[Cootey]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Did you try a search of the dictionary? I don't think you mentioned this, but, can be done without opening a book. Tap the search icon, choose dictionary and the desired dictionary and search for a word. If that doesn't work, then it probably is the dictionary file.

I wish I had thought to do that before. It's not something that occurred to me. In my factory reset Clara HD, I searched for the word "book", which the default English dictionary defined with aplomb, but the two imported dictionaries declared "No definition found". I suppose the dictionary files could be damaged, even though they seem to be compressed correctly. I unzipped them and there's not much to them except a dicthtml folder with html files inside.

I don't know how NickelMenu does this. I know there is also a patch, so maybe it is happening in some way like that.

I uninstalled NM by following the directions and sticking a file called "uninstall" in the NM folder, but NM remained installed. I had to resort to turning off the Kobo in the middle of booting to force uninstall NM. Something was hinky.

All that sounds like a corrupt database. By "corrected my account", do you mean the "Repair your Kobo account" in settings? That is mainly fixing issues with purchased books. I shouldn't go near sideloaded books. And it probably doesn't do anything if the database is corrupted. Or it might, but, the fixes probably won't get saved to the database properly.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I tried it (twice), but as I stated above I didn't expect it to touch the sideloaded books. You have confirmed what I observed since the Kobo was misbehaving so badly, I couldn't be certain what was happening.

Signing out of the account and back in usually fixes it. That recreates the database. And factory reset should definitely fix it, but, is usually overkill. Though you sound like you might be in the mood to do just that

Haha Yes, I realized I could do that, but figured something was corrupt on my Kobo, so I wanted to be thorough, and there wasn't even a need to launch into orbit.

If you do a factory reset, do it from the Developers options or the external method. These wipe the root partition and reinstalls the factory firmware. The method from the Device information doesn't do that.

Now this is interesting. I didn't know this. I (obvi.) used the method from device information. I didn't realize the dev factory reset was a deeper reset. I think I'll give it a try. Thanks.