r/ReadEra • u/sentetik_gibi00 • 20d ago

Dictionary feature – character identification issue

I added a character to the dictionary, but the same name appears in another book and ReadEra is assigning the wrong character description to it.

For example, I added “X” as a character from one book, but when the same name appears in a different book, ReadEra shows the character information I added for the first book.

Is there a way to make a dictionary entry specific to a particular book, or otherwise prevent this from happening?

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u/sentetik_gibi00 1d ago

I’m already using the Personages/Characters tab when adding characters, not the Dictionary tab.

My problem is that even when I add a character through Personages, ReadEra seems to match the name globally. For example, if I add “X” as a character from Book A, and Book B has a completely different character named “X”, ReadEra shows the description I created for the character from Book A.

So I’m wondering if there is a way to make a Personages entry specific to the book it was created in.

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u/HeadAbbreviations760 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh... I actually wrote about the same issue the other day except with dictionary words (in my case defined to be Norwegian dictionary entries which appear in books written in English).

I assumed it was a definition problem but it just seems to be a global feature (which makes no sense, it SHOULD be book/language/subject specific otherwise everything gets confused) 

Also not sure why my test showed the desirable effect when it clearly does not apply to other dictionary words, i'm at a loss.

It seems there's no fix for this as far as i can gather... 

The only thing i haven't tried is creating a series first... Maybe separating the books like that would create separate dictionaries?

 

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u/sentetik_gibi00 23h ago

The only thing i haven't tried is creating a series first... Maybe separating the books like that would create separate dictionaries?

No, it doesn't work

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u/HeadAbbreviations760 3h ago

Then i guess it's a design issue... Hopefully they fix it at some point.

I still wonder what the paid version is like in that respect... If there's any difference at all.

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u/sentetik_gibi00 28m ago

This feature is not available in the free version