What makes the dictionary different from any other book? It has that special lookup feature, where you just have to get in front of the word. Of course, you don’t need to buy one…it came with the Kindle. I think that’s the right edition…although oddly, it’s not for sale to US customers. The Kindle comes with The New Oxford American Dictionary. When you go back to the dictionary, you can do Menu-My Notes & Marks to see the list. Others simply like to collect them like trophies: labeling where and when the capture was made. Some people like to revisit the words they’ve learned, as a way to reinforce the knowledge later. The notes and bookmarks are the answer to a question I’ve been asked before. After you look at the word and definition, hit the Back button to go back to where you were in the book. You can even bookmark the page (Alt+B) or make a note (Menu-Add a Note or Highlight-start typing).
You can use the Aa key to increase the text size. Once you are there, it is just like you are in any other book. 🙂 That will open the word in the dictionary itself. It looks like a downward arrow that smashed into the ground, broke at a ninety-degree angle, and is pointing to your left. If the writing is too small for you (cough, ahem, not saying anything personally), you can hit the enter key on the Kindle. The definition will appear at the bottom of the screen. Here’s a quick sampling of words (contributed both by me and by others) from that thread: verst, chiaroscuro, enthalpy, jezail, tufa, and smegma.ĭon’t know what they all mean? If you are reading this on a Kindle (besides the Kindle 1…it works a bit differently), use your 5-way to get in front of the word. I even started a thread in the Amazon Kindle forum called Words my Kindle taught me. I’ll admit it: every once in awhile, I can’t remember which 18th century carriage is which. It turned out that I was wrong, and I do use it from time to time…and it’s very satisfying when it does know a word I don’t. So, in my egotism, I thought the dictionary function of the Kindle just wasn’t going to be that useful for me. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obsure, and Preposterous Words (which has apparently evolved into this…and isn’t available for the Kindle). When I was a kid, I read the dictionary cover to cover (not that I retained all of it). Then open a french book, press and hold on a word I don't know the definition, and see what happens.I think I have a pretty extensive vocabulary. The Kindle will choose this file as the primary dictionary for french language. As this is the first french dictionary in my Kindle, I need not to change any settings.
#Add words to kindle dictionary download
Suppose I am reading a book written in french, so I need a french-english dictionary.įirst we need to download a french to english dictionary file, then transfer to the Kindle dictionary folder. No problem! And the steps are pretty similar to the above. Want to add foreign language dictionary to Kindle? Then back to the previous screen we can see the default dictionary for english has been changed. As the screen shows below, "Oxford Dictionary of English" is defaultly chosen and we need to switch to "collins3", which is recently imported by me.
Press the "Dictionaries" option, and we can see the default Kindle dictionary - "Oxford Dictionary of English".īy pressing it we can change the primary dictionary of english. And let's start with the "Dictionaries" screen. Do it as the list below:Īs I am using a Kindle Paperwhite at the moment, so I am going to take Kindle Paperwhite for example and introduce the process. Change the default Kindle dictionaryĭifferent generation of Kindle should be set in different ways. The following job is to make the dictionary file work on Kindle. Now all the steps on computer are finished. Open it and find "documents\dictionaries" folder.ģ Paste the dictionary file into the "dictionaries" folderĤ Safe eject Kindle and unplug the USB Cable Seconds later there will generate a Removable Disk called "Kindle".
Find it and use it to connect Kindle and computer. Yes I like Collins dictionary since my college years.Įvery Kindle user should have a USB cable in the box which is shipped with the device. Here I got a Collins Cobuild V3 dictionary file. mobi file, which can be downloaded freely from the internet or bought from Amazon Kindle Store. Add Dictionary to Kindleġ Download the dictionary file to computer German version please refer to Wie man ein Wörterbuch in Kindle ändert oder hinzufügt.
#Add words to kindle dictionary how to
Here we are going to introduce how to add or change the Kindle dictionary. But sometimes the default dictionary doesn't work very well especially when it meets some plural nouns or past participle. To look up the definition of a strange word on Kindle, we just need to press and hold on the word. One primary reason that I like reading on Kindle is the utterly convenient dictionary feature.
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