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 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I found these links in a mobileread thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358795

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (26 MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b2Z8qs8BU5k9U6le8VnvsyA4wdSfZ9TG/view?usp=sharing

Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed (203 MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YQ6eqWD5mCkQ3wYsSUhyayA_rpKF-dHB/view?usp=sharing

Edit: Here's a link to the color version of the SOED if anyone is interested in that one https://archive.org/details/soedrich-star-dict-2022-11-11

I haven't tested them yet. Maybe it would be nice if some other people saved them, to safeguard them.

EDIT: I tested them on KOReader. They work. Yay.

I am still looking for a good dictionary PT-PT. If anyone knows of anything, let me know, please.

[–] grill@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Best English dictionary in my opinion is Oxford Dictionary of English. This is default dictionary for Kobo ereader. I don't know a lot about KOReader, but it seems it uses Stardict dictionary. I uploaded my own stardict convertion of ODoE on my brench("Stardict_-_Oxford_Dictionary_of_English.zip" you need to unzip it). I hope it works (it should): https://gitlab.com/grilj.anze/e-reader-dictionaries-kobo-txt/-/tree/d83d17d2d006a13f0b406a6065cb04ae729d6153/

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thank you!

Can you also do this with other languages? The PT-PT (Portuguese, from Portugal) dictionary on Kobo is quite ok. I would love to have it available on KOReader.

[–] grill@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'll take a look when I have the time.

[–] 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.