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.netOPEnglish
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          5 days 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:

          1. bla bla
          2. bla2 bla "

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

          • grill@thelemmy.clubEnglish
            1·
            5 days 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.netOPEnglish
          2·
          1 month 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·
            1 month 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.