04-19-2022, 05:40 AM | #1 |
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How long does it take kindlegen to generate a kindle dictionary?
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How long does it take kindlegen(under Kindle Previewer 3\lib\fc\bin folder) to geneate a kindle dictionary which has 80M html file and contains 60, 000 words? It has already taken 24 hours with my laptop(a little bit old) but the process not finish yet. I had tried Mobipocket Creator. The dic was created in 20 minutes. |
04-19-2022, 07:56 AM | #2 |
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Make sure to use the -gen_ff_mobi7 and -dont_append_source command line options when using kindlegen to produce dictionaries.
Last edited by jhowell; 04-19-2022 at 08:16 AM. Reason: Fix wrong option |
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04-19-2022, 08:10 AM | #3 |
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04-19-2022, 08:17 AM | #4 |
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It prevents kindlegen from trying to produce a KF8 format version of the dictionary, which takes time and is useless anyway.
Also the other option should have been -dont_append_source. That prevents the original source file from being included in the MOBI output, cutting the size in about half. |
04-20-2022, 07:43 PM | #5 |
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Besides using the -gen_ff_mobi7 and -dont_append_source options, I splitted the single and large XHTML file of the dictionary. Then the dic was created much faster with kindlegen.
Here is the information from Amazon(https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/to...8DNV#kindlegen) |
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