Announcing Mobidict: A desktop dictionary reader for azw/mobi files

[donmez]

Hi all,

I always wanted to be able to use my Kindle dictionaries on desktop. Hence I am happy to announce Mobidict 1.0 which lets you read azw/mobi dictionaries on Linux/Windows and macOS.

Binaries are available from https://github.com/ismail/mobidict/releases

I appreciate any testing & feedback.

Thank you!

Release History:

v1.1 - 04.06.2018
* Updated libmobi for better mobi file compatibility
* Windows/macOS binaries now use Qt 5.11 (upgraded from 5.10)
* Removed a hack used for broken mobi dictionaries.

v1.0 - 16.11.2017
* Initial release

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by donmez

Hi all,

I always wanted to be able to use my Kindle dictionaries on desktop. Hence I am happy to announce Mobidict 1.0 which lets you read azw/mobi dictionaries on Linux/Windows and macOS.

Binaries are available from https://github.com/ismail/mobidict/releases

I appreciate any testing & feedback.

Thank you!

I have created a wiki page for Mobidict.

Dale

[donmez]

Thank you!

[donmez]

I released a 1.1 update with better mobi support (Thanks to updated libmobi) and now Windows/macOS builds use Qt 5.11 (upgraded from 5.10).

[Skumar]

Can you please explain step by step how to install it in linux Debian 64 bit. I am new to linux and want to use it .
Thanks

[donmez]

Originally Posted by Skumar

Can you please explain step by step how to install it in linux Debian 64 bit. I am new to linux and want to use it .
Thanks

Hi! Can you tell me which Debian version (stable/unstable/devel) are you using so I can help you? Thanks!

[Skumar]

I am using debian 9 stable (stretch) .

[vinniec]

I have someting similar to debian and with this command the software is builded:

sudo aptitude install clang cmake ninja-build qtbase5-dev libqt5svg5-dev lld
tar xf mobidict-1.2.tar.xz
cd ./mobidict-1.2/
./build.sh

Now i need mobi dict to try the software

[vinniec]

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me, I tried it with 3 dictionaries taken from this page https://bookfere.com/en/dict:
The Italian one seems to load endlessly
That German one says corrupt
That "internet" one says corrupt the same

correcting me, the Italian dictionary works

[donmez]

Originally Posted by vinniec

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me, I tried it with 3 dictionaries taken from this page https://bookfere.com/en/dict:
The Italian one seems to load endlessly
That German one says corrupt
That "internet" one says corrupt the same

correcting me, the Italian dictionary works

Thanks for testing, if you use the official Kindle dictionaries (which you can download for yourself from the http://amazon.com/myk interface) it should work.

[Skumar]

which version of lld you have installed. when i run your command i get following error
""Couldn't find any package whose name is "lld", but there are 74 packages which contain "lld" in their name:
(too many to show, the limit is 40)
Unable to apply some actions, aborting""
I installed lld (1:7.0-47) but i think something is wrong as ./build.sh command show following error
""clang: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=lld'
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.""

[vinniec]

Sorry but when I tried, about 2-3 months ago, I was on another pc with another operating system (I had kali-linux-rollling) and now I can not see what version was lld, I tried to look for the package on
repology but somehow is not listed .
I still own the hd and I could do a search when I have time, if in the meantime you have not solved

[markvdvelde]

Originally Posted by donmez

Hi all,

I always wanted to be able to use my Kindle dictionaries on desktop. Hence I am happy to announce Mobidict 1.0 which lets you read azw/mobi dictionaries on Linux/Windows and macOS.

This programme helps me greatly I don't know if you are still working on extra features, but if so, I have a few suggestions. It would be great if:

1. I could search in multiple mobi dictionaries at the same time. At little like the built-in dictionaries on Mac's.
2. It would be great if I could select a word in a random app, use a hotkey and immediately get the results from Mobidict

I am suggesting this without having any idea how difficult is it to implement these things