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pyglossary
A tool for converting dictionary files aka glossaries. Mainly to help use our offline glossaries in any Open Source dictionary we like on any modern operating system / device.
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PocketBookDic
Script to convert dictionaries to pocketbook dictionary dic-format and Koreader optimized dictionaries.
If you have (legal) access to it, then it is also possible to load the entire OED 2nd edition. But if you find a copy which comes in two parts then you may need to play with pyglossary and dictutil to convert to Kobo's .df format and merge them before sending to your device. Some technical competence helps here. I'll say that pyglossary wanted to spit out many, many warnings about unexpected elements, but I was able to suppress them with the -v1 verbosity level option and it doesn't seem to have affected the output (though I didn't examine it very closely beyond just a couple sanity check lookups on my device).
Once I started using the (relatively verbose) OED, I also found it useful to enable the patch in KoboPatch which increases the usable reading area in the dictionary pop-up.
The tool I used, PyGlossary, does not appear to list Pocketbook or the .dic format in its list of supported formats. I was able to find this tool, but I haven't tried it myself. It claims to be able to convert from .dic to Stardict format, however, and I can confirm that PyGlossary is able to convert from Stardict to Kobo's dictionary format.