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:dragon: A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones Kindle Dictionary
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Add support for EPUB / Kobo device #40

Open DutchEllie opened 7 years ago

DutchEllie commented 7 years ago

Yo, I was wondering how I can use this as a dictionary on a Kobo device.

wjdp commented 7 years ago

We currently only have builds for Amazon's Kindle (mobi format) as that's the only eReader I own. I'd love to add support for other devices and from a cursory search Kobo uses EPUB which should also give us support for quite a few other devices as well.

Dictionary formatting tends to be more complex than building a standard ebook so we'd need someone both with one of these devices and the time to get a build up and running. @pokemoneuro would you be interested in taking this on?

DutchEllie commented 7 years ago

I'm not very experienced in this field and I don't really know how everything sticks together, sorry. I'm only 16, still learning these things. Also, I don't own my own e-reader and when I'm gonna buy one it'll probably be a Kindle anyway xD. Thanks anyway for informing me!

wjdp commented 7 years ago

No trouble. Half the point of these projects is to play around with some tech without any real consequence.

I'm not very experienced in this field

Neither was anyone else when they started :wink: This is my first and only eBook...thing.

Anyway find something you're interested in and have a fiddle!

DutchEllie commented 7 years ago

True, of course, you gotta start somewhere. I'm going on vacation tomorrow so it doesn't seem like the right time. I also don't have a device to test it on, only my grandpa's which I'm using for on the vacation. Anyway, if I ever have a device to experiment with I can look, but like I said, I'll probably buy a Kindle when I buy an eReader for myself.

pgaskin commented 4 years ago

I've made a Kobo version of GOTDict as part of my work on dictutil (dictutil is still a work-in-progress, but it's now feature-complete; documentation is coming soon).

wjdp commented 4 years ago

@geek1011 Cool! Would be happy to accept a PR that adds this build into CI/CD.

pgaskin commented 4 years ago

I currently build it as part of dictutil, and want to keep it that way for now (dictutil is still in progress, and I haven't made a decision about images yet: see geek1011/dictutil#1). After I release the first stable version, I'll submit a PR to add it to the CI here.

I'll also submit a PR to fix a few bugs in gotdict which I found while working on gotdict-convert (which parses it quite strictly). See the FIX: comments in gotdict.go.

pgaskin commented 4 years ago

Images have been fixed in firmware 4.20.14601. I'll make another release which adds them again (I'll build it with and without images).

pgaskin commented 4 years ago

I have released dictutil v0.1.0 stable. It's pretty much finished now.

wjdp commented 3 years ago

Hey @pgaskin I spotted you've got a build working on https://pgaskin.net/dictutil/examples/gotdict-convert.html

I've just moved the CI from Travis to GitHub actions. Do you want to have a look at integrating the Kobo version here?

pgaskin commented 3 years ago

Do you want to have a look at integrating the Kobo version here?

Yep, I'll take a look when I work on v3 dictionary support in dictutil.