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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
The Webster's 1913 is anything but. The various varieties of English have changed so much in the last century that relying on such an antique makes little sense. Shift happens, words change their meaning, or connotation, and a century-old fossil won't show any of that. For those times when one simply MUST know the meaning of an obsolete word or archaicism, go online to the OED. Or, if antebellum is for some weird reason a must, the Webster's 1913 is also available online.
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I've actually found it quite valuable, and it has ~80% of the words I don't know and need to look up. I mostly read sci-fi/fantasy. I also read non-fiction reference books, but I use Wikipedia more than the dictionary for those.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I also started reading up about custom dictionaries to compensate for Kobo's feeble offerings. I never bothered. Just reading the processes involved for creating dictionaries, or using dictutil and the like makes my eyes glaze over.
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I was also put off by the complexities and subtle breakage of custom dictionaries, which is why I started working on dictutil. Nearly everything there is to know about dictionaries can be found in dictutil and its documentation now. For installing dictionaries, it is now as simple as "dictutil install dicthtml-whatever.zip" (v3 custom-dict support is coming soon). For merging dictionaries, you just do "dictzip-decompile dicthtml-whatever.zip", then use "dictgen whatever.df whatever1.df" to merge them. For creating dictionaries from scratch, you can use the custom .df format, which will deal with all the hard parts for you (and PyGlossary can now output/input .df files).
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Originally Posted by rtiangha
PyGlossary now makes it super simple to make Kobo dictionaries out of other formats (it even has a GUI!) but it doesn't have v3 support yet. But it seems to be actively developed so it's great (click on Code->Download ZIP rather than the version on the Releases page since the Kobo support in the July version is stale). However, it requires Python to be installed on your system, plus some extra modules installed by pip, so if you're Windows, while there are installation instructions at the bottom for Linux and Mac, it isn't entirely obvious on how to set it up on Windows (basically, after installing Python for Windows, you would open up cmd and type in those pip instructions, minus the sudo).
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Yes, PyGlossary now supports Kobo dictionaries based on dictutil. It's still not completely finished yet, and there are still a few bugs left in it. But, in general, it works well now, and it can also output .df files for dictutil to use.