Best dictionaries for koreader

[Alan_S]

I need link for best English to English dictionary that works with koreader.

Before I searched for one and as time goes, I see that it can't recognize many words. It is based on Websters from 1913, if I'm not mistaken.

Anyway, what do you use and that is pretty comprehensive?

[MicaOlaAdams]

I find this "Collaborative International Dictionary of English" quite useful.

And there is a huge repository of dictionaries to be found here.

[Ken Maltby]

The 1913 dictionaries are often useful when reading works that use medieval terms, and somewhat for earlier terms. This comes in handy if you like epic fantasy.

Luck;
Ken

[Alan_S]

Originally Posted by MicaOlaAdams

I find this "Collaborative International Dictionary of English" quite useful.

Sadly, this is dictionary that I use. Many words I think it should know it doesn't (or it may be a problem with koreader?). Anyway, now I'm searching for some dictionary that would found many terms that this one doesn't.

[stevenam]

Why not Oxford Advanced Learner 8th? Some simple Google search combining the "name" and "stardict" then you can find in elsewhere from Russia.

[emacsomancer]

The Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed. (in two parts - make sure to get both and put both on) I find most excellent. Now it's not concise, but give lots of etymological information and quotations. But when I actually want to look up a word, I do myself often want that info.

[Alan_S]

I found it here: http://download.huzheng.org/bigdict/

I guess you mean this two giant files (99 and 121MB)?

And I have unzipped dict files previously, do I need to unzip these files also?

[emacsomancer]

Originally Posted by Alan_S

I found it here: http://download.huzheng.org/bigdict/

I guess you mean this two giant files (99 and 121MB)?

And I have unzipped dict files previously, do I need to unzip these files also?

Yes, unzip them, and place the (two) resulting folders in the appropriate place.

They may or may not be as useful to you as they are to me. When I run across a word I want to look up, I usually do myself want etymological information and quotations across a time period.

[Alan_S]

Thanks for confirmation. I'll use them.

[phlame64]

Hello there, is anybody here aware of a good English-Italian bilingual dictionary ready to use with koreader?

[hfpop]

Hello,
KOreader accepts both DICT and DICT.DZ files. Is there a speed increase if I uncompress the DICT.DZ file and use the DICT file? DICT.DZ is a few times smaller in size as compared to DICT, and it should make sense to be stored compressed if the parsing algorithm allows for smart local uncompressing. For overall performance which one is advisable to use?
Thank you.

[dugahol]

Hi all, was hoping someone could help here.

I have downloaded the 2 oxford dict files above and extracted them, copied the 2 folders to the .adds/koreader/data/dict/ directory for Kobo but koreader still shows 0 dictionaries installed.

Inside the 2 folders is another .tar do i need to extract these also?

or is there something else i am missing to install the dictionaries?

Thanks for your help.

Ok solved it: I extracted the other .tar files then copied the folders across. All good now