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?

  • amos@slrpnk.netOP
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    10 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.club
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      5 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.