HOW-TO: clean up that dictionary (for your pocketbook)

[paola]

Originally Posted by Logseman

Pocketbook uses a fairly obscure format called .dic. I've seen StarDict dictionaries ported to it, but not .mobi ones.

thanks - infact, Caliber cannot convert the wrodnet3 file from .mobi to .epub either. I guess it makes sense for me to wait until I get my PB903 (if ever!) and check out what's in there!

@fjtorres - so I take it taht the webster one integrates seamlessly on PB?

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by paolamanzini

@fjtorres - so I take it taht the webster one integrates seamlessly on PB?

They all do. Simultaneously.
I found a really big spanish wikipedia extract that works fine, for example.

You hit whatever button you assigned the dictionary to and the dictionary app pops up in half-screen mode. Then you navigate onscreen word-by-word and the dictionary pane lists the closest definition it can match up to it. Fairly simple.

You can also call up the dictionary's keyboard to type in a word.
You can also change dictionaries on the fly so if you have an eng-eng dict and an eng-ital dict you can instantly switch from one to the other and get both definitions to the same word.

Most of my reading is SF so I don't get much use out of the contemporary dicts but the websters (which is a modified version, btw) comes in handy with the 19th century brit stuff.

[Logseman]

I found a really big spanish wikipedia extract that works fine, for example.

Could you point to it, perchance? Wikipedia is licensed under CC, therefore it can be made public.

[paola]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

They all do. Simultaneously....

brilliant - now I only need the reader

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Logseman

Could you point to it, perchance? Wikipedia is licensed under CC, therefore it can be made public.

Strictly perchance.
http://lingvodics.com/dics/view/Spanish/?p=2
It's a russian site full of lingvo-compatible dsl file links so, "Google translate is your friend."

Last june when the announcement of the imminent Lingvo dictionaries came out I did a bit of research and found that site. I didn't bookmark it or anything but fortunately I kept the original rar files so a search for:
es-es_wiki_an_1_0_dsl
...got me back there.

So it's pure chance at work here.


Hope this works for you!

The dic file is 22MB and compresses to... 22MB...
The limit here is 15Mb but if you have trouble converting we can try something else, okay?

Edit: They've added stuff since june.
This looks amusing (considering the source):
http://dadako.narod.ru/knigohran/es_...spanol_1_0.zip
Most of the material looks to be from academic and government sources so it's probably safe to link to the d/l page:
http://translate.googleusercontent.c...q6A-OdRAot_K3w