I don’t have any time left to spend this month for a blog post, as I’m currently preparing two new video lessons for my Youtube channel Improving Ability, so I just quickly post the News, and hope to get to bed before midnight:

It is with great excitment that I have finished my Chinese Pinyin to English dictionary for Kindle devices—after months of preparation, and a period of 4 weeks of daily, intense, hard work! (btw, most of my friends called my crazy, which is not very encouraging)

For creating the dictionary I used the Jan 2025 version of the Amazon guidelines of how to create a custom made dictionary. When I finally finished the dictionary on the 18th July of 2025, and was in the process of uploading, I failed to do so. What followed was a struggle for something like two four-hour sessions, in which I tried to re-compile and tweak and optimize my dictionary in every conceivable way.

It was only in my exhaustion that I learned, far too late, that Amazon has completely stopped accepting custom made dictionaries, as of March 2025. This was hard to accept, both from my work’s perspective, as well as from a spiritual and humankind perspective, but that’s the direction Amazon took.

Therefore, I spent another two days to create a personalised sales-page on Gumroad, so that the dictionary is at least available somewhere, and if not sold and installed through the Amazon store, it can at least be side-loaded on Kindle devices—by anyone who loves reading science fiction, romance novels, podcast transcripts, graded readers, and other texts written fully in Chinese Pinyin on their Kindle e-readers. 😁

Here’s the link: papperlapapp.gumroad.com/l/pinyin-english-dictionary