Adding Foreign Language Dictionaries

[RayArdia]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Mobi Metadata Editor is a stand-alone Java program. There's no need to install it in the Firefox Plugins directory.
You should be able to run it by entering the following in a terminal window (after using cd to go to the folder that the .jar file is in):

java -jar MobiMetaEditorV0.16.jar

In that case there's something wrong with your Kindle or the Spanish dictionary, because the MR book that I linked to has the correct language metadata and worked on my Kindle. (If you used a different Spanish MR book, it might also have the wrong metadata.)

Do you want to use the default monolingual Spanish Kindle dictionary or did you install a custom dictionary?
If you've installed a custom dictionary, it might not have the correct language codes or is broken.

Try the following:

a) Delete the default monolingual Spanish dictionary and re-download it from Amazon.
b) Delete any custom dictionaries and re-install them on the Kindle by copying them via USB.
c) Double-check with Mobi Metadata Editor that all custom dictionaries have the correct Input/Output dictionary languages and all Spanish books have the correct language codes.
d) Restart the Kindle.
e) Select the monolingual Spanish dictionary as the default dictionary and try to look up a word in the MR book that I linked to.

If all of this didn't help you might have to reset the Kindle to the factory default settings. (Make sure to make a backup copy of all books on the Kindle first, because everything on the Kindle will be deleted.)

Note that you'll also need to re-register your Kindle after a reset.

Followed through a) to e), look-up failed, my Kindle simply tried to use the English dictionary. Have saved contents and will now try resetting to factory defaults.

[RayArdia]

Short of sending the Kindle back to Amazon.es, (which I just know will be a hassle because I haven't got the original packaging), I reckon I can live with the following solution:-
When I'm in the mood to read Spanish books I change the Kindle language to Spanish and after a short pause off I go without any further problems! Look-up, either using the monolingual Spanish or the bilingual Spanish-English, whichever I set to default. When I want to read in 'the mother tongue' I change the device to English.
Problem solved.

May I once again thank you for all your very patient help.
Ray