Feature request: Create EPUB dictionaries valid for Kindles

[Juliaria08]

I propose the program creates or at least makes it easier to create valid codepage 1252 dictionaries, similar to the files made by The Ficcionary.

I understand that this might not be the best issue or may not be acknowledged, but I hope someone finds this useful, and I certainly do.

The kindle that I've got is a old K4S, and I can test files generated if requested, but if so, for the first tests I'd prefer to have the English and Spanish dictionaries used, as those are the languages I can read and understand.

[Juliaria08]

Oh, it seems like the codepage isn't important, as kindlegen seems to have that option in the manpage saying -western: force build of Windows-1252 book, so I think the following headers should be set from KindleUnpack

  Field:         dict_in_lang   Offset: 0x060   Width:  4   Value: 0x0409
  Field:        dict_out_lang   Offset: 0x064   Width:  4   Value: 0x0409

Or somthing similar.

[lasconic]

Do you have more information about the format? A page describing it ?

Does https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary support the format?

My understanding is that a Kindle can read *.mobi dictionary and pyglossary can export this format. No ?

[Juliaria08]

I can try to make pyglossary export the file I have that seems to work, I can also upload the default installed files if you want. Am currently going to look into pyglossary.

[BoboTiG]

I think we already covered that topic in the wiki: https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/wiki/HOWTO-Convert-to-mobi-for-the-Kindle

Or it is something else you need?

[Juliaria08]

Oh, sorry. Didn't notice.

I think we already covered that topic in the wiki: https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/wiki/HOWTO-Convert-to-mobi-for-the-Kindle

Sorry. Didn't notice, thought there was going to be the direct files in the downloadeable links to make a nicer UX (I am a unix nerd but most people aren't), but if there's a entry on how to do so, I can use that entry.

Or it is something else you need?

No it's not anything else I need.

[Juliaria08]

Also, noticed that penelope is archived, but whilst it works we don't have any issues.

[dbogdanov]

I've followed the instructions in the https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/wiki/HOWTO-Convert-to-mobi-for-the-Kindle however, after importing the resulting .mobi files to Kindle, the dictionaries have empty definitions for all words. Any suggestion on what could be the problem?

[kvn1351]

rchived, but whilst it works we don't have any issu

I've followed the instructions in the https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/wiki/HOWTO-Convert-to-mobi-for-the-Kindle however, after importing the resulting .mobi files to Kindle, the dictionaries have empty definitions for all words. Any suggestion on what could be the problem?

I've followed the instructions in the https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/wiki/HOWTO-Convert-to-mobi-for-the-Kindle however, after importing the resulting .mobi files to Kindle, the dictionaries have empty definitions for all words. Any suggestion on what could be the problem?

Same issue here.

Edit: Got it working by using PyGlossary instead of Penelope.

Things to keep in mind:

• I used the .df (Dictfile) and this worked the best
• Has to be run with "Remove all HTML tags from def" otherwise Kindlegen got stuck on math html tags
• If you're on Apple silicon, launch PyGlossary via the Terminal in x86/rosetta mode because Kindlegen is x86
  • If you're using homebrew for python, I suggest you install the dependencies (mistune, lxml and beautifulsoup4 using pip3 install ... —break-system-packages if you wanna use the GUI. Otherwise it can be more tricky if you're on a venv)