yaktoa

Yet Another Kindle to Anki

This program generates .apkg deck directly from vocab.db located in your Kindle device. English support only.

Features

• Definitions are automatically filled in with (maybe) correct sense

  The word sense disambiguation (WSD) is powered by pywsd and WordNet. Though WSD is not perfect, it is good enough in my opinion and you can just edit the file when reviewing if you see an incorrect definition.

• Manual mode

  You can use manual mode and select the correct word sense one by one if you want absolute accuracy.

• IPA (en-us) are automatically added

  This is powered mostly by English-to-IPA, and Merriam-Webster Dictionary's free API as well. Providing your own API key is optional.

• Source book of the word is added to the card

  So you can recall where did you see the word. It is currently not used in the card template, edit it as you like.

Installation

1. Clone this project

   git clone https://github.com/johan456789/yaktoa.git
   

2. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. (Optional) Get a Merriam-Webster Dictionary's free API, use your credentials and edit cred.py accordingly.

   This step is optional. If the word's IPA is not found, the field will be left blank.

   The Merriam-Webster Dictionary API is free as long as it is for non-commercial use, usage does not exceed 1000 queries per day per API key, and use is limited to two reference APIs.

Usage

Before running the script:

• Copy /Volumes/Kindle/system/vocabulary/vocab.db to yaktoa.

usage: python main.py [-h] [-i INPUT] [-o OUTPUT] [--no_ipa] [-p] [-m]
optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        Input filename
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output filename
  --no_ipa              Leave IPA field empty
  -p, --print           Print first 5 vocabularies
  -m, --manual          Manually select definition
  -a, --all             Process all books

Auto mode (default)

1. Run script and type the index of the book interested.

   python main.py -i vocab.db -o output.apkg
   

   

2. Wait and voilà! The deck is saved as output.apkg.

   The free API plan has some limitations and I have to sleep for 2 seconds for another request, so it takes some time.

Manual mode

Run script with -m or --manual tag.

python main.py -i vocab.db -o output.apkg -m

1. Type the number of the book you want:

   

2. Select correct word senses (the green one is what pywsd predicts):

   • Type the number with correct word sense and press enter:

   

   • Simply press enter if the predicted sense is correct:

   

   Lower left numbers (2/14) tell you the current progress. There are a total of 14 vocabularies and it's the 2nd one.

3. Wait for IPA queries and it's done!

Credits

Without them this project would have been much harder.

genanki, pywsd, English-to-IPA WordNet, Merriam-Webster Dictionary