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Old 11-16-2012, 07:14 PM   #1
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Direct Links to Kobo Dictionaries

This thread is for direct links to Kobo dictonaries. It is also for non-Kobo dictionaries that work on the Kobo devices.

As far as I can determine, these dictionaries will work on the Touch, Glo and Mini with Post 2.1.4 firmware. There doesn't appear to be any differentiation of the dictionaries amongst the Kobo Devices.

The third post of this of this thread will contain generic installation instructions.

Kobo Release Dictionaries

The direct link for the dictionaries is : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereader/dictionaries followed by the dictionary zip file name.

These URLs are for the 2.1.5 Touch. I don't think that there are separate dictionaries for the Glo and Mini, at least the URL isn't versioned. My guess is that Kobo will make any dictionary updates without announcing it, and the Desktop will automatically sync the new version of the dictionary.

English : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...s/dicthtml.zip

German : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...icthtml-de.zip
German-English : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-de-en.zip
English-German : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-en-de.zip

Spanish : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...icthtml-es.zip
Spanish-English :http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-es-en.zip
English-Spanish : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-en-es.zip

French : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...icthtml-fr.zip
French-English : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-fr-en.zip
English-French : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-en-fr.zip

Italian : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...icthtml-it.zip
Italian-English : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-it-en.zip
English-Italian : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-en-it.zip

Dutch : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...icthtml-nl.zip
There do not appear to be Dutch translation dictionaries.

Japanese : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...icthtml-ja.zip
Japanese-English : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-ja-en.zip
There doesn't appear to be a Japanese-English translation dictionary

English-Japanese : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-en-ja.zip

Portuguese: http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...icthtml-pt.zip
Portuguese-English : http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-pt-en.zip
English-Portuguese: http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-en-pt.zip


Alternative Dictionaries

Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (London) 1908
Chambers1908.zip
16 Nov 2012 - 3.67 MB (3,849,648)

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (US) 1913
Websters1913.zip
17 Nov 2012 - 11.0 MB (11,612,770)

Released by ShellShock in this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=196925

Last edited by murg; 11-22-2012 at 05:44 PM. Reason: Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese Translation Dictionary Links now working
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Old 11-16-2012, 07:16 PM   #2
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Kobo Dictionary Versions

The dictionary version info is: Version - Date - Release - Size
Where:
  • Version is an arbitrary version number.
  • Date is the internal date of the files in the zip file.
  • Release is the approx Kobo firmware release the dictionary is for.
  • Size is the size in KB from Windows Explorer.


English
1 - 26 Sep 2011 - 2.1.4 - 6,815 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.4 - 6,846 KB

German
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 6,464 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 6,706 KB

German-English
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 866 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 905 KB

English-German
1 - 26 Sep 2011 - 2.1.4 - 677 KB
2 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 677 KB
3 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.2.0 - 692 KB

Spanish
1 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 6,391 KB

Spanish-English
1 - 27 Sep 2011 - 2.1.4 - 1,598 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 1,628 KB

English-Spanish
1 - 26 Sep 2011 - 2.1.5 - 1,196 KB
2 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 1,196 KB
3 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.2.0 - 1,212 KB

French
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 6,159 KB
2 - 21 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 6,207 KB

French-English
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 1,520 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 1,549 KB

English-French
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 1,174 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 1,190 KB

Italian
1 - 29 Sep 2012 - 2.1.5 - 10,898 KB
2 - 15 Nov 2012 - 2.2.0

Italian-English
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 979 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 996 KB

English-Italian
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 716 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 732 KB

Dutch
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 2,327 KB
2 - 8 Nov 2012 - 2.2.1 - 3,196 KB

Dutch-English
There do not appear to be Dutch translation dictionaries.

English-Dutch
There do not appear to be Dutch translation dictionaries.

Japanese
1 - 12 Jul 2012 - 2.1.4 - 5,646 KB
2 - 7 Aug 2012 - 2.1.5 - 5,866 KB
3 - 12 Nov 2012 - 2.2.0 - 6,836 KB
4 - 21 Nov 2012 - 2.3.1 - 10,213 KB


Japanese-English
There do not appear to be Japanese translation dictionaries.

English-Japanese
1 - 11 Nov 2012 - 2.2.0 - 7,412 KB

Portuguese
1 - 29 Oct 2012 - 2.2.1 - 11,190 KB

Portuguese-English
1 - 29 Oct 2012 - 2.2.1 - 3,151 KB

English-Portuguese
1 - 29 Oct 2012 - 2.2.1 - 1,410 KB


Sources
2.1.4 - from backup copies of my Touch drive
2.1.5 - from backup copies of my Touch drive
2.2.0 - Directly downloaded on 17 Nov 2012
2.2.1 - Dutch, Portuguese Dictionaries available (22 Nov 2012)

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Old 11-16-2012, 07:18 PM   #3
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Instructions for installing dictionaries manually

This will be fleshed out, for now this is a place holder post.



For now, here are the instructions for ShellShock's Chambers English dictionary:

Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language


To use the new dictionary:
  1. Connect your Kobo to your PC.
  2. On the Kobo go to the ".kobo\dict" folder, and rename "dicthtml.zip" to "dicthtml.backup.zip". This backs up your existing English dictionary (which I assume you already have installed).
  3. Download the appropriate zip file below and unzip it to extract the dicthtml.zip file inside. Do not unzip the dicthtml.zip file.
  4. Copy the dicthtml.zip file to the ".kobo\dict" folder on the reader.
  5. Eject/disconnect your Kobo.
  6. Go into the dictionary screen, e.g., if you have a book open, tap the book icon on the bottom menu, and select Definition.
  7. Flip the language from English to e.g., Deutsch and back again. This makes the Kobo refresh the English dictionary cache. You have to do this once.
  8. The new dictionary is now ready to use.

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This is another placeholder post for future use. The Direct Links to Kobo Firmware main post would have been a lot easier to manage if there were some room of future growth.

This is not a duplicate post.
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Old 11-22-2012, 04:08 PM   #5
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The Dutch and Portuguese dictionary links are now working.

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There do not appear to be Japanese translation dictionaries.
But now it is. And again a new kobo desktop release from here. Now its 3.1.3 with english-japanese dictionary inside.

I tried this link: http://download.kobobooks.com/ereade...html-en-ja.zip and it's up.
It seems, we have to look more often to kobosetup.
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Thank's, I downloaded the portuguese dictionaries that I was unnable to download directly in the glo, finally I can use them.
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I implemented the output to Kobo format into Penelope, my dictionary-converter tool.

More information at:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=132
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murg could you update dictionary info in the post above:

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3 - 12 Nov 2012 - 2.2.0 - 6,836 KB
4 - 21 Nov 2012 - 2.3.1 - 10,213 KB
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It looks like Kobo released a bunch of dictionaries, as I just synced my device through Desktop, and the dictionary sync took a long time.
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Correction: English-Japanese dictionary date should be: 15 Nov 2012, my mistake, sorry.

I installed Kobo Desktop 3.1.5 today and noticed 2 dictionaries has been updated: Japanese and Italian.

Italian
3 - 11 Dec 2012 - 2.3.1 - 11,537 KB

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Hello, is there a Turkish -> English Dictionary for Glo?
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No, but if you have a Turkish -> English dictionary in StarDict format, you might want to convert it to Kobo format with Penelope.
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No, but if you have a Turkish -> English dictionary in StarDict format, you might want to convert it to Kobo format with Penelope.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/d...t.zip?download

I have this file. Is it possible to convert to DictHtml?
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