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Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall

Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Double reminder that local offline copies of wiktionary.org dictionaries are available for download here: github.com/Vuizur/Wiktionary-Dictionaries

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Carighan@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For the Kindle versions (yeah I still got one, I know, but not tossing a functional device!) that's the .mobi I presume? And how do I install that as a proper new dictionary? Does it auto-recognize that if I just copy it in the main folder?

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- Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t own/use a kindle but did a 2 minute search and found this promising fourm post comment from user Enterio www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=360684
  
  "On my Kindle (Paperwhite, 11th gen), the dictionaries are held in the “\documents\dictionaries” subfolder (I kept my firmware to an older version to keep my USB connection). When I bought them online (on Amazon, see Kindle Default Dictionaries category), I received pre-made MOBI files that I only had to place in the aforementioned subfolder, without converting them to other file formats. Afterwards, I set up my default dictionaries for every language on my Kindle in Settings → Language & Dictionaries → Dictionaries. Hope that helped. "
  
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