Years ago someone on a certain dedicated ereader fourm shared a fixed updated stardict version of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. This is of one of the rare holy grails of digital dictionary files, as you cant find a properly working version of this dict anywhere on the usual sites just one scuffed conversion version with broken formatting.

Unfortunately it was only available a very short time before a mod removed the links on the fourm for copyright infringement policy.

So now they are gone off the public internet for good AFAIK. Every now and then I see people in the fourms asking for links to these specific files.

I was fortunate enough to save everything the generous user shared while still available and still have them locally. I would like to make these files available and easily findable to anyone who wants them. Can you please give a newbie some guidance on how to best do this?

Edit: Heres the links to the files! Thanks to all the community members who gave feedback you are all awesome!!

Internet Archive Page

.zip download, IA host

.torrent download, IA host

Torrent magnet link

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[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://workupload.com/
Create a torrent

Post the link to the community so we can mirror on other networks. Is it a specialist dictionary, or a regular dictionary whose formatting will change the way I look at life?

[–] SmokeyDope@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Thank you for the links! So im allowed to just post a magnet to them if i get the torrent up? Its my first time posting to the community not sure how detailed I am allowed to be, originally was gonna link to the fourm post for context. They are stardict versions of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED).

You might just be convinced it will change your life by the way literature nerds on the internet talk about it lol. I think its a good balance between shorter more to the point descriptions while still containing lots of information. Maybe not life changing but a high quality dictionary that isnt a slog to read is always nice to have especially on ereader.

You can find good stardicts of just about every dictionary on the internet if you look hard enough except the SOED which is why it was a big deal to get a properly formatted not scuffed version of the dictionary in both mono and color.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can find good stardicts of just about every dictionary on the internet if you look hard enough

I'm just amazed by this. Can you point me to some of the more common places where one could start? I could really use some new dictionaries 😁

[–] SmokeyDope@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Dictionary-support

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/tags.php?tag=stardict

https://web.archive.org/web/20230717122310/http://download.huzheng.org/

https://owenh.net/stardict

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 day ago

@SmokeyDope thank you!

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 2 points 2 days ago

What is this magical dictionary? I'm almost afraid to ask but, won't just about any dictionary do just fine?

[–] Unreliable@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

If you end up posting it, let me know please!

[–] Want2BeRocker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Pls share link or file (I can dm you my telegram link) when it will be available