I want to get the best possible dictionary for KOReader. Does anyone have the Oxford English Dictionary in a way that is usable by KOReader? Or does anyone know of a similar dictionary?

What about dictionaries in other languages? Any way to convert Kobo dictionaries to KOReader dictionaries?

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[–] amos@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you, that would be great!

[–] grill@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I uploaded stardict PT-PT. You can check it out, if it works. It should be the same dictionary as KOBOs, with similar formatting. If there are big problems, I can try to improve it.

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I will try it out later and see how it goes. Did you take this from Kobo itself? It would be nice to learn how to do that!

[–] grill@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I just check what version they are using and download the same one. I tried directly from Kobo, but you can only extract "words," not definitions; those are encoded.

I then use pyglossary to convert to something editable like txt. Then i use python scripts (made by chatgpt) to improve formatting. Or sometimes I manually do some. It all depends how much time i want to spend on them. I spend enourmous amount on english so its kinda perfect

I also make a bunch of dictionaries merged into one. So i can see in one dictionary definition in english and translation in my native language. And i also add fictionaries for books i am reading (names, locations etc). I scrape or download from fandom wiki. But yeah all of this i make with the help of python scripts and chatgpt otherwise I wouldn't know how to.

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am not sure if you are aware, but there is a "fandom wiki" dictionary maker: https://github.com/Runik-3/core. I have used it in the past and it works perfectly.

[–] grill@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you I was not aware! I'll try it soon.