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Colonel Cathcart · 01-27-2022, 07:35 AM

This is very very strange (to me). I wanted to start reading a new book. That was just after upgrading to the latest firmware, but that's not the reason for the problem, other books work just fine. It's just this single book that's giving me some trouble.

I'm not a native English speaker, but I read in English and, occasionally, need to use the built-in dictionary. Unlike other books I've read on the device, when I click-and-hold on a word I need a definition to, instead of the entire word being picked, only a single character is picked and, obviously, the wrong dictionary entry is shown. For example, if I try to look up "aviation" (yes, I know what it means), only the 2nd 'a' is highlighted and the dictionary entry for the word "a" is shown. Now I need to fidget around with the left and right control to pick the entire word.
This happens 100% of the time in this book, even on 2-letter words, on different pages of the book, using both the default publisher font and some built-in alternatives like Georgia and Kobo Nickel.

This is a side-loaded epub converted with Calibre to kepub.
What's wrong with this book? How do I fix it?

01-27-2022, 07:35 AM	#1
Colonel Cathcart Addict Posts: 234 Karma: 340434 Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: Israel Device: Kobo Libra H2O	[kepub] Can't use the dictionary, pressing picks a single character instead of word This is very very strange (to me). I wanted to start reading a new book. That was just after upgrading to the latest firmware, but that's not the reason for the problem, other books work just fine. It's just this single book that's giving me some trouble. I'm not a native English speaker, but I read in English and, occasionally, need to use the built-in dictionary. Unlike other books I've read on the device, when I click-and-hold on a word I need a definition to, instead of the entire word being picked, only a single character is picked and, obviously, the wrong dictionary entry is shown. For example, if I try to look up "aviation" (yes, I know what it means), only the 2nd 'a' is highlighted and the dictionary entry for the word "a" is shown. Now I need to fidget around with the left and right control to pick the entire word. This happens 100% of the time in this book, even on 2-letter words, on different pages of the book, using both the default publisher font and some built-in alternatives like Georgia and Kobo Nickel. This is a side-loaded epub converted with Calibre to kepub. What's wrong with this book? How do I fix it? Last edited by Colonel Cathcart; 01-27-2022 at 07:46 AM.