01-18-2009, 12:28 PM | #31 |
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well i would be happy to tackle starrigger's dictionary, if he can provide me the sources. i'm currently working on a french dictionary on this model, however i have had a lot of work to do lately so i had to set it aside for a while. hopefully i can come back to it soon.
starrigger, can you give me your source file ? |
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So I was testing the procedure to see a) if it worked, and b) if it was easy enough that others could do the same with their own, purchased copies of the dictionary if they wanted to. I was sharing the experience and test results with the community, but I can't share the book without stepping on copyright. I mean, if Zelda wanted to spend hours doing it so that I could have my own personal copy on my Reader and no one else would, that would be wonderful. But somehow I guess that's not what people are thinking here. |
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I wanted to see if converting to LRF would make a file that would read faster on the 700 than the EPUB. I shut down all extraneous programs on my computer and ran any2lrf from the command line on the epub version (in which the extraction to html was already done). Sucker ran for over 40 hours, saying it was "rationalizing font sizes." The pagefile was approaching 2 GB. I finally pulled the plug and stopped it so that I could use my computer again. It still might be possible, if someone with a more powerful computer wanted to buy the book and try it. But it defeated my machine. So I still don't know if a LRF version would work better than the EPUB version, which works but is so slow that in practice I doubt I'll ever use it. |
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Obviously I'm not suggesting that anyone give out copies of a commercial dictionary! |
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I think the reason my conversion proved unwieldy is that the built-in search links didn't survive the conversion. The dictionary is quite nimble in its native Mobi format on my creaky old Cassiopeia. |
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I see that you have a PRS-700. How effective is the built-in text search on that in locating dictionary entries?
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That's what I was trying to say earlier: it's far too slow to be useful. Is it the sheer length of the book? Or do the formatting complexities slow it down? I don't know. I just know that in most tests, it appeared to freeze the Reader.
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i think it also has to do with how far you have to go to find the word : i just tried a search inside nrapallo's webster's dictionary (which is really big) ; the first instance of the word appeared not far from where i was in the book, and it took less than one second to get there ; advancing to the next two instances also was near instantaneous. the search i did that was very long was for "systolic" starting at the beginning of the book (i can see the last few searches when i open the search window, that's how i know). |
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