Problem with iBooks dictionary in other languages

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Problem with iBooks dictionary in other languages

A couple of days ago I bought the iPad Retina. When I was checking the new languages in the inner dictionary of the iBooks (v3) a message appears asking if I wanted to download dictionaries for more languages-I was checking a book in Spanish. I pressed Yes but the connection was too bad, and it couldn’t finish the downloading.

Now I am trying again and nothing happens, just the message saying that it cannot find the word, but nothing about downloading more languages. I looked online and some ppl solved the issue changing the language of the IOS to another but English, looking for a non-English word and changing back to English. I tried with every language (the ones of the new dictionaries) and nothing happens.

So... if someone can help, will be much appreciated, since I read in many languages and I would like to have more inner dictionaries.

Thank you in advance.

iPad, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Nov 15, 2012 5:38 AM

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Nov 15, 2012 5:45 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Delete ibooks , then re-install it , you can restore all your books from iCloud , then the message will appear asking you for downloading the dictionary ;)

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Nov 15, 2012 5:49 AM in response to LUD's

Thanks for the reply, but already try that and didn´t worked 😟

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Nov 15, 2012 5:56 AM in response to Celebrimnar

I downloaded ibooks , but nothing happen , now I can use the dictionary without downloading it . See if you can do that yourself

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Nov 15, 2012 6:01 AM in response to Celebrimnar

iBooks was updated last night/this morning. try downloading the update.

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Celebrimnar Author

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Nov 15, 2012 6:04 AM in response to LUD's

Yes, I tried and nothing. I have books in many languages, and tried french, spanish and chinese, and the only dictionaries working are english and japanese...

That was after the update. So that also is not going to work

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Nov 15, 2012 6:05 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Then there is only dictionaries in English and Japanese

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Celebrimnar Author

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Nov 15, 2012 6:06 AM in response to LUD's

Accourding to the update the dictionaries should be Spanish, english, french, chinese, japanese and german

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LUD's

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Nov 15, 2012 6:09 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Now I got it , press and hold a word in your book they will show you define , then download it

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Celebrimnar Author

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Nov 15, 2012 6:13 AM in response to LUD's

The first time worked. The problem that I was at the office, and the internet connection was horrible.

After I came back to my house I tried again and have been trying all the things I said, and nothing.

Thanks for the effort of helping me

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Nov 15, 2012 6:15 AM in response to Celebrimnar

Are you trying to press and hold a word in any book you have , they will show you a list including (define) . When you press define they will tell you download dictionary :)

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Celebrimnar Author

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Nov 15, 2012 6:19 AM in response to LUD's

Yes I did. As I said the first time it worked, the message of "want to download a dictionary?" appears, but the connection was bad, and never connected to download.

Now in my house I tried again to download and nothing.

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