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?

  • grill@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    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.netOPEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      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.

            • amos@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
              2·
              9 hours ago

              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.clubEnglish
                1·
                4 hours ago

                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.