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Translate ibooks

I am reading a book in German that is not my native language, No practical way to translate a word or a sentence into English or French.

the dictionaries are amazingly poor, the translate app cannot be used,…

The only way was to switch to kindle and to buy again the book. Kindle has both decent dictionaries and translation capabilities embedded


Shame to Apple!

iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 17

Posted on Dec 17, 2023 1:47 AM

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Dec 17, 2023 8:52 AM in response to Greffulhe

Greffulhe wrote:

the dictionaries are amazingly poor, the translate app cannot be used,…
The only way was to switch to kindle and to buy again the book. Kindle has both decent dictionaries and translation capabilities embedded

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I read books in Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, and German all the time and have had no problems with using Apple's bilingual dictionaries to provide English meanings. You access these via the "Look Up" function (not via "Translate"). You need to first check the dictionaries you want in Settings > General > Dictionary.

Translate ibooks

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