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Originally Posted by mobiuser
Hi everyone,
I have some .bgl (babylon) dictionaries that I'd like to convert for my kindle pw.
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BGL dictionaries are binary files that need to be converted to text files before further processing. You can convert them to tab delimited files or to .gls text files with
PyGlossary. However, neither format is compatible with the Mobipocket dictionary input format.
I.e., you'd need to edit the text file in a text editor and wrap terms and definitions in the required
MobiPocket dictionary tags, create an .opf file and compile it with KindleGen. (You cannot use Calibre.)
Alternatively, if you somehow managed to re-format the text file so that each line contains just one headword followed by a tab and the definition, you could follow the instructions on
this website to generate a Kindle dictionary.
There are also a number of ready-made free bilingual Kindle dictionaries available for download on the Internet. For example,
Michael Sheldon's dictionaries.