Mobi file doesn't identify as Dictionary on kindle 2019

Hossein1376 · 03-01-2020, 12:17 AM

Hello, I was looking for a Persian dictionary and sadly Amazon has no official persian dictionary, so I had to make a custom one.

I used one of Babylon's bgl files which included about 200 thousand entries. Using a script from github, I was able to convert it to html or txt, then to a mobi file. Moved it to: /documents/dictionaries . But it was identified as a seprate file and not a dictionary.

I used mobigenerator to produce a prc file, sadly Amazon doesn't support prc anymore, so I tried converting prc to mobi both on PC and online converters, it was unsuccessful (due to high number of entries I suppose)

I don't know what to do. Why I couldn't use the orginal mobi as a dictionary at first place? I need help

j.p.s · 03-01-2020, 12:18 PM

Dictionaries on a kindle have a different format.

See the dictionary FAQ:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=131137

03-01-2020, 12:17 AM	#1
Hossein1376 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2020 Device: Kindle 2019	Mobi file doesn't identify as Dictionary on kindle 2019 Hello, I was looking for a Persian dictionary and sadly Amazon has no official persian dictionary, so I had to make a custom one. I used one of Babylon's bgl files which included about 200 thousand entries. Using a script from github, I was able to convert it to html or txt, then to a mobi file. Moved it to: /documents/dictionaries . But it was identified as a seprate file and not a dictionary. I used mobigenerator to produce a prc file, sadly Amazon doesn't support prc anymore, so I tried converting prc to mobi both on PC and online converters, it was unsuccessful (due to high number of entries I suppose) I don't know what to do. Why I couldn't use the orginal mobi as a dictionary at first place? I need help

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03-01-2020, 12:18 PM	#2
j.p.s Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,864 Karma: 105494725 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: pb360	Dictionaries on a kindle have a different format. See the dictionary FAQ: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=131137

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