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!!
@jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com @madame_gaymes@programming.dev @Unreliable@lemmy.ml @Want2BeRocker@lemmy.dbzer0.com @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com I uploaded everything to the Internet Archive which also created a torrent file :) I greatly appreciate all the advice and interest in helping host/share these!
archive.org? usually when I’m looking for a expired file I search for the file name, and if it’s on the internet archive it usually pops up on the first page of google.
Great suggestion, thank you.
This is the answer. It’s freely accessible, and duplicated across servers all over the world so it’s difficult for copyright claims to take down.
Torrents and Archive.org are the best ways I think. A third option would be to also upload to Z-Library.
All 3 for maximum redundancy. If you get a torrent going and don’t want to make a z-lib account, I can upload it there for you. Either way, I’d love to help you seed and spread all these datas.
