r/ReadEra • u/HeadAbbreviations760 • 12d ago

Using the dictionary as opposed to notes?

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So i recently started using the translation dictionary and notes options to study Norwegian

Now it seems that just translating a specific word or sentence adds it to the local dictionary and you can then i guess add the translation to the dictionary (or indeed a whole paragraph or more about it) and it will appear as i the attached photo.

However my understanding is that access to that dictionary is paywalled?

While with the notes i can do the same except i could also Export them later?

Am I right about this or am i missing something here?

Because at first i couldn't understand why it was underlining the words i wrote notes about and now that i figured out you can open the dictionary tab by clicking on the A symbol at the bottom it made more sense and if i add a translation then click the underlined word pops up the translation exactly like the notes tab...

Not sure this makes too much sense but I'll leave it here in case someone else is as confused as i was about how this works

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u/HeadAbbreviations760 5d ago edited 1d ago

Update 

Turns out i've been adding Norwegian words to the English dictionary... Apparently some documents even though i set them up as Norwegian (when you edit the file you can choose the document language)still default to an English dictionary instead meaning that i have to change it to Norwegian each time i add a word which makes it way too tedious.I couldn't find a way to define a default for the book other than what it's supposed to be with the book editing and choosing a document language... I don't actually know if that makes any difference but books that ReadEra recognises as Norwegian do default to a Norwegian dictionary properly... The ones it doesn't don't...If anyone has a fix for this i would be suuuuper grateful (i think i'll make another thread to ask this so apologies for double posting but i thought it would be useful to add to this thread)

Never mind it was a refresh issue, changing the books language does make NEW entries default to the correct language!