Questions tagged [dictionaries]
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How to use Malayalam dictionary on kindle
I would like to use Malayalam dictionary on my kindle pw. I downloaded a Malayalam dictionary named "English-Malayalam dictionary by Gijo Varkey". I tried all formats of the dictionary viz ...
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Words I added to the personal dictionary are ignored
I added words to the dictionary but sigil continues to underline them with red in the editors. I closed and reopened the program (like a restart), but to no avail. There are no complicated ...
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How to make a custom Kindle dictionary be case insensitive?
I'm developing a custom Bulgarian Dictionary for Kindle, in .mobi format (source code is here: https://github.com/yanosh-k/bulgarian_dictionary). I've manged to successfully create a working version, ...
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Kindle phrases dictionary
I recently bought a Kindle Oasis. Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'm using the dictionary option within e-books. I noticed that the default dictionary doesn't recognize pair of words or ...
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kindlegen dictionary creation
Hi I am trying to create a dictionary for my kindle.
It is quite a large one, and I've splitted into 16 files each of them are around 20mb. While I am trying to generate the dictionary, kindlegen ...
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Can Kindle's dictionary be disabled?
I find Kindle's dictionary feature to be annoying - I've used Touch and Paperwhite, where I'm touching the screen all the time, and I frequently get an annoying pop-up definition I don't want.
Is ...
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Create Kindle dictionary as KF8 / Floating images in a Kindle dictionary
I'm working on a Game of Thrones Kindle dictionary and would like to float images in some of the definitions. (width 20%, floated right)
This is supported on newer kindles using the KF8 format ...
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Should a shorter Kindle file have faster word look up?
Word look up takes a lot of my time (because I use Kindle to learn to read foreign languages). Various things seem to affect the speed of word look up though it is hard to be sure since so many ...
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What prospect is there for foreign language look-up in Kindle for PC?
Kindle for PC is currently ineligible for delivery of most dictionaries on the "Manage Your Content and Devices" page, and so cannot use them for word look-up.
Is this situation likely to change soon?...
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Where can I find custom dictionaries for my Kobo Glo?
I'd like to load some custom dictionaries on my Kobo Glo, since the preloaded ones sometimes lack many words.
The monolingual ones seems to be fairly complete, but I find the ones used for ...
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eBook reader recommendation with a Japanese-English dictionary
Short story:
I'm looking for a ebook reader that has the following:
E ink display
Supports English text and has English-English dictionary
Supports Japanese text and has a smart (can detect words ...
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On Kindle 4, can you send a dictionary as email attachment?
In a Kindle 4, I am trying to install a dictionary between to languages (eg. English->German).
This is what I tried so far:
I have found a .mobi file from this site http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2011/01/...