Dictionary formats suitable for Voyage
Context: I am reading a book written in English, but with frequent Spanish words or short phrases. The ones common enough to be in the English dictionary included with the Voyage I already know. I found a PRC format Spanish to English dictionary on the net, that was made available some years ago, when Kindles were simpler.
Will a prc dictionary work well on a Voyage, including the ability to set it as default from a menu and have all the pop up stuff work?
The dictionary I have went through several iterations by different people and many of the earlier download links are not working. But the blog pages all say to convert to mobi. Even though the prc is only 6MB, Calibre's ebook-convert took around half an hour and peak
RAM usage was 2.6GB!
I've found a number of confusing to me kindle related dictionary threads on mobileread that are at least several years old, but nothing clear on dictionary file format requirements, particularly nothing about the Voyage. They mainly discussed book and dictionary metadata regarding language matching, but the book is mixed language, and I would like to be able to also look up words in English from it (switching default dictionary myself as needed).
If mobi is needed, can I just rename the prc to mobi?
Does ebook-convert from calibre 0.8.51 preserve dictionaryness?
Do I actually need azw format? If so, will calibre 0.8.51 properly convert a prc dictionary to an azw dictionary that will work on a Voyage?
Is it really so outlandish to want to be able (relatively) seamlessly look up non-English words sprinkled in an English language book?
Last edited by j.p.s; 05-03-2015 at 05:59 PM.
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