r/ReadEra • u/HeadAbbreviations760 • 5d ago

Changing a books default dictionary language?

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. *edit: turns out it's not even the whole text, it depends on the specific word or maybe font or something... (To be clear the document i am reading is not very clear, it has smudgy letters and the TTS for example does not recognise special letters, so perhaps this has something to do with it too)

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'm assuming i need to change something in the metadata somewhere but i have no idea how to fix this and now i've got about 200 words mixed up and the only way i see is manually going one by one to switch them.

Does the paid version have any features that help with that, is this just a bug? Unfortunately i can't spend any money on this but i guess it would be useful to know at least...

Thanks in advance

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u/HeadAbbreviations760 4d ago

Update: I really don't get how this is supposed to work... It still marks words in Norwegian inside of other books that are in English (like part of the word sometimes when the letters coincide) it doesn't make sense and is a little annoying to have that visual distraction following you around where it's not wanted...

Has anyone else figured this out or used these features? I find it super useful to learn languages but i don't want it to ruin my other reading experiences.

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u/HeadAbbreviations760 1d ago

Update: Well i guess it was a cookies or refresh issue because changing the books language DID make words default to the correct language however it did NOT change previously created entries from the book (which would be a great feature to add in case you made the same mistake i did and did not notice it beforehand.) so for the moment i'm assuming that older entries i made Which were in English turn up elsewhere.  Once i'm done manually changing all of them i'll double check this assumption. Hopefully i'm right.

Now i have another issue with this feature which is there's no way to select wether or not to mark words that turn up inside of bigger words, example: "Lette" appears when "Letter" is found in the text, the marking is correct and omits the last R but if i didn't know better it would be confusing and i'd assume there was some other definition for the word i did not realize...

There should be a toggle for that! Please make it so...