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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[–] 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!