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I have both a jailbroken Kindle Colorsoft and a jailbroken Paperwhite 11th gen.

I'm currently setting up the Colorsoft exactly how I want it... plugins, patches, gestures, settings, etc. Once everything is "finished", I'd like to replicate the same setup on my Paperwhite.

For convenience, would it be possible to simply copy the all KOReader files/folders from the Colorsoft to the Paperwhite instead of manually installing and configuring everything again?

Are KOReader settings, plugins, patches and gestures generally portable between these two devices, or are there things I should install/configure separately because of differences between the devices?

I'd really appreciate any advice from someone who's done something similar.

Hey everyone!

I’m trying to get two dictionaries working properly in KOReader, but I’m having some trouble with the formatting after converting them from MOBI to StarDict.

I recently converted my MOBI dictionaries to StarDict using mobi2stardict: https://github.com/anezih/mobi2stardict
I used the Avalonia desktop application, rather than the older Python script. The conversion itself works and KOReader recognizes both dictionaries correctly. The problem is that some of the original formatting seems to be broken in the resulting StarDict definitions.

I’m using two different dictionaries:

A Portuguese dictionary
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

The content itself is there and readable, but some of the original HTML/markup seems to be displayed as literal text instead of being rendered correctly.

For example, in the Portuguese dictionary, KOReader displays:
idth="-30" align="left">bronze
instead of properly rendering that part of the entry.

In the Oxford dictionary, I get something like:
[ size="6" color="#002984"> climb

I’ve attached screenshots of both examples.
So it seems that some of the formatting/markup from the original MOBI dictionary is making its way into the StarDict definition in a form that KOReader doesn’t interpret correctly.

Is there a way to fix this?

Could this be caused by the conversion itself, or is there something I can modify in the generated StarDict files to make KOReader interpret the formatting correctly?

I also tried the web-based mobiDictToStarDictConverter:
https://random90.github.io/mobiDictToStarDictConverter/
but the conversion doesn’t complete for my dictionaries — it gets stuck/fails during the progress stage.

So far, mobi2stardict is the only converter I’ve managed to get working with these dictionaries.

I’m using the latest KOReader on a jailbroken Kindle.
Any advice on how to diagnose where the formatting is being lost, or how I could fix the generated StarDict dictionary, would be greatly appreciated!

Can I migrate my KOReader setup from a jailbroken Colorsoft to a jailbroken Paperwhite 11th gen?

Mobi to StarDict conversion isn't fully right