Dictionaries for Kindle

May 18, 2011 10:55

1. Get a dictionary from StarDict's collection: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php

2. .dict.dz is actually a gzip archive. Rename to .dict.gz, then extract the .dict file

3. Get StarDict Editor: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict/

4. Convert the dict file to a tab-delimited text file with StarDict Editor (DeCompile -> .ifo)

5. Get tab2opf and convert the tab-delimited dictionary to opf (tab2opf.py .txt)
http://www.klokan.cz/projects/stardict-lingea/tab2opf.py

6. Now convert this to mobi with MobiGen (mobigen.exe .opf)
http://www.mobipocket.com/soft/prcgen/mobigen.zip

7. Copy to Kindle and select as main dictionary.

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