Amazon killed kindlegen but Kindle dictionaries still require MOBI format
Amazon deprecated kindlegen without providing an alternative for MOBI dictionary generation. The old tool is extremely slow and crashes on large dictionaries. Sideloaded Kindle dictionaries have no other format option.
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