Oxford English Dictionary for KOReader? Does anyone have it? (slrpnk.net)

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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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[-] grill 5 points 2 months 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.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] grill 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] amos@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you, that would be great!

[-] grill 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 months 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 1 points 2 months 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.

[-] amos@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

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 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] amos@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Hey there again! I tried the PT-PT dictionary and in terms of content, it is awesome. The formatting is a bit weird though. There is no formatting, everything is in the same phrase, different definitions in the same phrase gets annoying.

Is there a way to style it? For example, a word "XYZ: 1 bla bla 2 bla2 bla2" would look much better like so:

"XYZ:

bla bla
bla2 bla "

Is this something that can be done on my end? I use KOReader.

[-] grill 1 points 1 month ago

Hey, I will take a look and try to do the formatting you suggested. I think I already have the script to do this exactly.

[-] amos@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

You should/could do a tutorial on how to do these sort of things, both get the dictionaries and format them!

[-] grill 1 points 3 weeks ago

Good idea. I'll think about it. I was really busy last week. I will try to fix your dictionary this week.

[-] grill 1 points 3 weeks ago

Can you please check this version of the dictionary I uploaded for you: https://mega.nz/file/TaY0wIDB#O0hjLsm_VYB71ZwRohK4YlYvpsaRTeFGzCK23nU7yvQ I would like to know if it's formatted the same as previous one or better. I don't know have KOreader so I can't test it myself right now. If the formatting is not better I have one more idea of what could be the problem.