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Built a browser-based TMX + AI tool for technical manuals – looking for feedback

Michal Kavalek — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:40:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Built a browser-based TMX + AI tool for technical manuals – looking for feedback
Poster: Michal Kavalek

Built a browser-based TMX + AI tool for technical manuals – looking for feedback

Hi all,

I work for a Czech machinery manufacturer and we translate our technical manuals into about ten languages. Buying a full CAT licence for everyone who occasionally touches a translation didn't make sense for us, so I built a small set of browser tools instead and have now made them public at aitranslator.cloud.

What they do:
- Document translator: open a DOCX, XLSX or PPTX and translate segment by segment, formatting kept. TMX matches take priority; the remaining segments go to an LLM with your glossary as binding context.
- Aligner: turns an original and its existing translation into a TMX, so old manuals become a usable memory (also in Trados).
- TMX editor and TMX merge. The merge handles the UTF-16 TMX that Trados and memoQ export, which many online tools fail on silently.
- Glossary as a plain Excel/CSV, including forbidden terms per language.

Files are processed in the browser and never uploaded to my server. Segments for MT go straight to the API with your own key.

It's not meant to replace a full CAT tool for daily professional work. It's aimed at repetitive technical text with strict terminology.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer, and it's a paid subscription with a 30-day free trial. I'm mainly interested in feedback from people who work with TMX every day: what breaks, what's missing, and whether the alignment holds up on your files.

Thanks,
Michal

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring | The future is open-weight models

uniconnecting — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:13:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: uniconnecting
Post title: The future is open-weight models

I believe open-weight/'open-source' models will play an increasingly important role in the future of AI, including machine translation. Smaller models can be fine-tuned or adapted using domain-specific or proprietary data, allowing them to perform very well on specialized translation tasks while offering greater control over cost, privacy, and deployment.

For many freelance translators, especially those working with relatively low or irregular volumes, usage-based API costs or recurring subscriptions to commercial AI services may be difficult to justify. In such cases, efficient open-weight models, particularly those that can be run locally, could become an increasingly practical alternative. To me, I would never share my client's data with those Cloud providers.

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring | Small Local LLMs are the future

lihsia — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:19:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: lihsia
Post title: Small Local LLMs are the future

Andrej Karpathy, cofounder of OpenAI, considers that small local LLMs around 3B parameters can handle most daily tasks, reducing reliance on subscription to frontier models via cloud APIs:
“Everyone’s renting frontier models for jobs a local 3B model could do. Small Local LLMs are the future.”

Translation is this kind of job a small local LLM does quite well.

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring | GPU with 8-12GB VRAM

lihsia — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:01:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: lihsia
Post title: GPU with 8-12GB VRAM

[quote]Mohamed Zeid wrote:

[quote]Li-Hsiang Hsu wrote:

Wow, Supervertaler has a serious competitor! 😂

Ollama seems to be running very fast on your PC. Is it Ollama Cloud? I use Ollama locally on my gamer PC, which has a decent GPU, but it struggles with newer models like Gemma 4 and Qwen. [/quote]

Hi Li-Hsian,
I use local Ollama. TranslateGemma:12b is really amazing, and fast. I have Geforce RTX 4080, 12GB, and I can run "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", the quantized version, with a decent speed, and great instruction-following peformance. The main benefit to me is actually privacy, speed, and the glossary functionality is simply amazing if you have a glossary ready. [/quote]

Yes, that's a basic configuration to run local AI.

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring | Frontier labs keep your data and have access to it

lihsia — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:59:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: lihsia
Post title: Frontier labs keep your data and have access to it

[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:

Li-Hsiang, what you're seeing on your gaming PC is the other half of the story. The bigger open models that would narrow the gap need far more GPU memory than most of us have at home, and once you run them on Ollama Cloud or Hugging Face instead, your text leaves your PC anyway. It's also worth knowing that the paid APIs from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google don't train on what you send by default. Do check each provider's terms against your client's requirements, but "cloud" doesn't automatically mean "unsafe".

[/quote]

I have carefully read their data policies. But the catch is this: while Anthropic and OpenAI do not "train" their models on your data, they still have access to it, whether intentionally or accidentally.

Anthropic’s recent security report (from September) shows that they can access our data if they wish, primarily under the guise of "monitoring" and "security". Recent cybersecurity incidents at OpenAI demonstrate that they do not have full control over areas where they should, specifically regarding agent behavior and data security.

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring | It's Local Ollama

Mohamed Zeid — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:52:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: Mohamed Zeid
Post title: It's Local Ollama

[quote]Li-Hsiang Hsu wrote:

Wow, Supervertaler has a serious competitor! 😂

Ollama seems to be running very fast on your PC. Is it Ollama Cloud? I use Ollama locally on my gamer PC, which has a decent GPU, but it struggles with newer models like Gemma 4 and Qwen. [/quote]

Hi Li-Hsian,
I use local Ollama. TranslateGemma:12b is really amazing, and fast. I have Geforce RTX 4080, 12GB, and I can run "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", the quantized version, with a decent speed, and great instruction-following peformance. The main benefit to me is actually privacy, speed, and the glossary functionality is simply amazing if you have a glossary ready.

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring | Local and cloud both have their place

Michael Beijer — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:02:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: Local and cloud both have their place

[quote]Li-Hsiang Hsu wrote:

Wow, Supervertaler has a serious competitor! 😂

Ollama seems to be running very fast on your PC. Is it Ollama Cloud? I use Ollama locally on my gamer PC, which has a decent GPU, but it struggles with newer models like Gemma 4 and Qwen.[/quote]

Cool, it's good to have some competition! Keeping everything on your own machine is a genuine selling point, too: some end clients simply don't allow their texts to go to a cloud service.

That said, I'd be cautious about relying on a small local model for real work, especially with complex material. TranslateGemma 12B, the model in the demo, is impressive for its size and fine for short, straightforward sentences. But a model small enough to run on a PC is in a different league from the big cloud models (Claude Opus, GPT-5.6, Gemini Pro), and the gap shows exactly where we need help most: long, complicated sentences, following a detailed prompt or style guide, sticking to the glossary, and keeping tags in place. To their credit, the TransLLM FAQ says much the same: smaller local models sometimes paraphrase glossary terms or skip parts of a prompt, and a larger hosted model is the answer when precision matters.

Li-Hsiang, what you're seeing on your gaming PC is the other half of the story. The bigger open models that would narrow the gap need far more GPU memory than most of us have at home, and once you run them on Ollama Cloud or Hugging Face instead, your text leaves your PC anyway. It's also worth knowing that the paid APIs from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google don't train on what you send by default. Do check each provider's terms against your client's requirements, but "cloud" doesn't automatically mean "unsafe".

Supervertaler for Trados supports both, so you can use a local model when a client requires it and a cloud model when you're allowed to. And if you'd rather not take my word for any of this, SuperBench (on the Batch Operations tab) runs the same segments of your own document through three models side by side, a local one included, and has a fourth model judge the results blind.

See: [url removed]

Here's what Supervertaler for Trados currently supports:

[b]Cloud models[/b] (your own API key; you pay the provider directly)
• [b]Anthropic:[/b] Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Haiku 4.5
• [b]OpenAI:[/b] GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.4 Mini
• [b]Google:[/b] Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
• [b]Mistral AI[/b] (a French company, for anyone who prefers a European provider): Mistral Large, Mistral Small
• [b]DeepSeek:[/b] DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Flash
• [b]xAI:[/b] Grok 4.3
• [b]OpenRouter:[/b] one API key for hundreds of models, from all of the above and many others, including open models such as Gemma 4, Qwen and DeepSeek

[b]Local models[/b] (free, and your text never leaves your computer)
• [b]Ollama:[/b] TranslateGemma 12B and 4B, Qwen 3 14B, Aya Expanse 8B, or any other model you've downloaded. Ollama can also run on another machine on your network, such as a PC with a bigger GPU.
• [b]Any OpenAI-compatible server[/b], such as LM Studio, through the Custom provider

Most of these are in the drop-down menus, and you can use any other model a provider offers by typing its name into the Model ID field in AI Settings.

Incidentally, I just released Supervertaler for memoQ a few days ago, see: [url removed]
Supervertaler for memoQ is not quite as feature-rich as Supervertaler for Trados, but I'm getting there...

Michael

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PS: I made a very short screencast a while ago, showing the model selector in Supervertaler for Trados. Note that the models shown are now outdated, but the basic structure is still the same: [url removed] ("Choose from dozens of LLMs in Supervertaler for Trados").

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring | Ollama

lihsia — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:03:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: lihsia
Post title: Ollama

Wow, Supervertaler has a serious competitor! 😂

Ollama seems to be running very fast on your PC. Is it Ollama Cloud? I use Ollama locally on my gamer PC, which has a decent GPU, but it struggles with newer models like Gemma 4 and Qwen.

Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring

Mohamed Zeid — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:50:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Using LLMs Directly in Trados Studio: A Plugin Worth Exploring
Poster: Mohamed Zeid

I wanted to share a tool that I think may be of interest to translators who have been experimenting with LLMs in their workflow.

It's called TransLLM, and it's a plugin for Trados Studio that lets you connect Trados directly to LLMs. What I found particularly interesting is that it can work with local models through LM Studio or Ollama, so it is possible to translate without sending the actual translation content to a cloud service.

It can also connect to cloud-based models if preferred, and it includes some features that are particularly relevant to translation work. For example, you can use glossaries to help guide terminology, create custom prompts for different types of content, and work with tagged segments.

The glossary functionality is especially useful when you want the model to follow preferred terminology instead of translating everything freely. Tag preservation is also supported, which is important when working with formatted or tagged content in Trados. In my experience, tag handling is not always perfect, so it is still something I would check carefully, but it is definitely useful to have the functionality built into the workflow.

For me, the interesting part is less about "AI translation" itself and more about being able to experiment with different translation models directly inside the CAT tool instead of copying segments back and forth between Trados and an external interface.

Of course, the translation quality depends heavily on the model being used, and running models locally also requires appropriate hardware and some setup, so it will not necessarily be the right solution for everyone.

I thought I would share it here since there have been quite a few discussions about LLMs, confidentiality, terminology control, and their possible use in professional translation workflows.

[url removed]

I'd be interested to hear whether anyone else here has experimented with local LLMs inside Trados or another CAT tool, especially when it comes to terminology and tag handling.

Issue with DeepL | TransLLM

Mohamed Zeid — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:43:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Issue with DeepL
Poster: Mohamed Zeid
Post title: TransLLM

This could be a bit late, but maybe it's worth-sharing. I found this Trados plugin "TransLLM" amazing at forcing glossary terms. It also uses local LLMs, so you have full control on your client's data. It's also really fast if you have a machine with 8gb GPU. Here is a link to it.

[url removed]

To me personally, LLMs and NMT/MT struggle most of the time with terminology management and the same term could be translated in different variations from a string to another. This was always a showstopper for me to rely on automated translations. TransLLM fix most of these issues, but I found out that it mostly depends on the LLM used when it comes to terminology consistency. You need a model that's instruction-based. I use Google TranslateGemma:12b and it's simply amazing.

CRM for freelance translators | v1.1.1 Windows released, v1.1.0 Mac updated

Eduardo Furrazola Valladares — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:08:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: CRM for freelance translators
Poster: Eduardo Furrazola Valladares
Post title: v1.1.1 Windows released, v1.1.0 Mac updated

Performance and visual updates received for Windows version. Now working on MacOS updates. You can always check out all changelogs on: [url removed]
Thanks for your contributions!!

[Edited at 2026-09-28 00:11 GMT]

CRM for freelance translators | Thanks for your feedback

Eduardo Furrazola Valladares — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:48:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: CRM for freelance translators
Poster: Eduardo Furrazola Valladares
Post title: Thanks for your feedback

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:

Nice, thanks. Odd place to have the bug report email address: at the bottom of the user's profile. [/quote]

Hey! Thanks for your feedback, you can also contact support for bugs within the Help button menu.

CRM for freelance translators | Bug

Samuel Murray — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:08:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: CRM for freelance translators
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Bug

Nice, thanks. Odd place to have the bug report email address: at the bottom of the user's profile.

CRM for freelance translators

Eduardo Furrazola Valladares — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:13:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: CRM for freelance translators
Poster: Eduardo Furrazola Valladares

Hi everyone,

I’ve just released Gestrics, a desktop CRM built specifically for freelance translators.

It covers the full cycle:
- Client & outreach management
- Projects (with CAT analysis import from Trados, memoQ, Wordfast)
- Invoicing with tax profiles for 75 countries
- Payment tracking

Key points:
• Fully local (no cloud, no account)
• One-time payment (no subscription)
• Available for Windows and macOS
• Interface in English and Spanish

14-day free trial (no credit card required).

I’d really appreciate feedback from working translators.

Link: [url removed]

Happy to answer any questions here.

Survey on tools and workflows used by language professionals

Maria Cristina Martinelli — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:57:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Survey on tools and workflows used by language professionals
Poster: Maria Cristina Martinelli

Hello everyone,

I’m conducting a short independent research survey aimed at professionals who work with translation, revision, proofreading, editing and other language-related activities.

The goal is to better understand the tools used in everyday professional workflows, which activities are fragmented or repetitive, and where professionals still need to switch between different applications or manually transfer information.

I’m particularly interested in real working practices: what works well, what creates friction, and which parts of the workflow could be improved.

The research is connected to the study of a possible future professional software project, currently at an early and non-commercial stage.

The survey takes approximately 5–7 minutes. Responses may be anonymous, and no confidential client or project information is requested.

Choose your preferred language:

🇬🇧 English:
[url removed]

🇮🇹 Italiano:
[url removed]

Thank you very much to anyone willing to contribute. Your professional experience would be extremely valuable to this research.

Remote Interpreting Platforms

Ercan Celik — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:14:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Remote Interpreting Platforms
Poster: Ercan Celik

What remote interpreting platforms are you working for? Could you share your resources please?

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | I use them

expressisverbis — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:52:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: expressisverbis
Post title: I use them

I still use the dictionaries and reference books I have collected over the years.
I have kept many of them since my university days, and I have no intention of throwing them away or giving them up.
To me, they have both monetary value and, more importantly, personal value. They represent years of study, efforts, work and professional growth.
One day, when I'm no longer here, I hope they will be donated to someone who will truly appreciate and make good use of them, rather than simply becoming part of an inheritance.

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Obsolete knowledge

PAS — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:15:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: PAS
Post title: Obsolete knowledge

@Peter Motte - I understood the question to be placed in the context of professional use in our field, rather than "an item of interest to be read as literature".
I seem to recall my father telling me that his father had a physics textbook that still discussed the concept of ether.
And schoolbooks or not - depends what you need them for - as items of interest, or even if you need to learn something from them for yourself - fine. As tools for use in the 3rd decade of the 21st century - less so.

That said, I have one or two atlases of the world printed in the early 1970s - I keep them as memorabilia because I remember I used to love looking through them when I was little :)

My Oxford reference dictionary is from the 1990s, so its geographical, political sections are long obsolete, but I kept it for other reasons.

[Edited at 2026-07-21 13:17 GMT]

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Keeping dictionaries

Mario Chávez — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:53:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Mario Chávez
Post title: Keeping dictionaries

I want to thank everyone for your considered and sometimes moving comments on what to do with dictionaries and similar books.

As I was reading some of your comments this week, I thought: “How about donating them to a local public library, the foreign language reference section?” A more remote, but not impossible possibility: “what about donating those beloved dictionaries to the library of a language or translation school?”

I owe my start to the New York Public Library, Sciences Division, in midtown Manhattan in the early 90s because a) I got to use a handful of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries to complete some of my first translations, and b) using those resources cost me nothing.

On a related note, I may write a blog on this question and the answers received. So, may I have your permission to quote all of you?

Thanks.

Mario Chávez

[quote]Peter Motte wrote:

I keep them. Not only out of nostalgia, but also because they're often a baseline. [/quote]

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Not about schoolbooks

Peter Motte — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:56:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Peter Motte
Post title: Not about schoolbooks

[quote]PAS wrote:

[quote]Peter Motte wrote:

what's in math books, never grows old. All axioms etc. still hold. [/quote]

Yes, but methods of presenting the knowledge have changed radically over the years (I refer to primary and secondary eduction). I used to teach, my wife still teaches and we both hoarded all kinds of text books, exercise books etc. but at some point the changes in curricula and, what's more important, teaching methods, even the order in which knowledge is presented have changed so that those old books have become all but unusable. Verdict - recycling box. The same goes for old (obviously not referring to truly old ) encyclopedias etc.

All my remaining paper dictionaries are at arm's reach and yet I don't recall when I last used any of them. [/quote]

I wasn't actually talking about schoolbooks.
And old encyclopedia's often have content which you don't find in new ones, because most of the current public isn't interested anymore. Encyclopedia's don't only update by adding more recent knowledge, but also by deleting older facts. And even if some of that old knowledge is actually obsolete in the true sense of the word, you would sometimes be surprised if you learned what that obsolete knowledge is (or was).

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | I will probably take mine to the local second-hand bookshop

Christine Andersen — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:36:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Christine Andersen
Post title: I will probably take mine to the local second-hand bookshop

We have a second-hand bookshop in town, and I will probably take my dictionaries there. I will ask them to select which ones they can sell. Then I will take the rest home and consider what to do with them. I suspect a lot of them have no value in money, and I will certainly not spend a lot on postage or shipping - it is simply not worth it!

I might take some back to the UK and ask charity shops there whether they can sell them - the chances might be better at an Oxfam Academic bookshop or whatever they call themselves these days. (Some of my dictionaries came from there in the first place!)

Someone may enjoy my mother's embroidery stitches or the four-language visual dictionary, even though they date from the last century.

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Sell them to an online bookseller

Jeff Whittaker — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:28:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Jeff Whittaker
Post title: Sell them to an online bookseller

I have used this company [url removed]

Enter or scan the ISBN and they will give you an instant offer (which you can accept or decline). You then put all the books into a box and mail it to them with a postage-paid label and they transfer the money to your account. Tip: take photos of the books before you send them because they do inspect them and sometimes make mistakes.

Option 2 is to create a lot of books and sell them on ebay. You can find their resale value here: [url removed]

I also remember a company that used to rent dictionaries (they used to attend the ATA conferences). This was handy when you only needed a dictionary for a specific project (back in the day when we also had months to complete a job). If you liked the dictionary, you could buy it and keep it by paying the difference between the sale price and the rental amount.

[Edited at 2026-07-08 19:33 GMT]

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Axioms yes, communication methods no.

PAS — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:58:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: PAS
Post title: Axioms yes, communication methods no.

[quote]Peter Motte wrote:

what's in math books, never grows old. All axioms etc. still hold. [/quote]

Yes, but methods of presenting the knowledge have changed radically over the years (I refer to primary and secondary eduction). I used to teach, my wife still teaches and we both hoarded all kinds of text books, exercise books etc. but at some point the changes in curricula and, what's more important, teaching methods, even the order in which knowledge is presented have changed so that those old books have become all but unusable. Verdict - recycling box. The same goes for old (obviously not referring to truly old ) encyclopedias etc.

All my remaining paper dictionaries are at arm's reach and yet I don't recall when I last used any of them.

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | That's why I started selling some books

Peter Motte — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:20:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Peter Motte
Post title: That's why I started selling some books

[quote]PAS wrote:

At the risk of sounding lugubrious, there is one other overarching concern - after your kids come home from your funeral, they will look at all your clutter and say "what do we do with all this junk?" I want to save them the bother ;) [/quote]

That's why I already started selling some of my books, years ago, but I still keep the dictionnaries.
And if you sell them at a serious price, you know they end up with people who actually want them. If you sell them at ludicrously low prices, like 1 euro/kg, changes are they end up with people who will throw them away anyway.

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Awfull, indeed!

Peter Motte — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:16:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Peter Motte
Post title: Awfull, indeed!

[quote]Christine Andersen wrote:

It saddens me when I see dictionaries used før creative purposes - pages folded into sculptures and sprayed with paint, or stacked up as insulating wallpaper, but that is the way I fear they will go in the end. Just as people make bowls out of LPs and bird-scarers out of CDs ... Or mouldering at recycling centres. I can´t save them all, but I still take the most interesting ones home with me.>[Edited at 2026-07-06 13:26 GMT] [/quote]

Some years ago the local art school asked people to give their old books, so they could "do something with them". Which finally meant that children splattered paint all over them, and although the books were old, some of them were still useable and worthwhile, like math books: what's in math books, never grows old. All axioms etc. still hold.

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Dictionaries and art books

Mario Chávez — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:04:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Mario Chávez
Post title: Dictionaries and art books

I do much the same with my dictionaries, graphic design and typography books. It doesn't matter if our descendants think little of them, it is enough (for me at least) to have had them as steady companions.

MC

[quote]Josephine Cassar wrote:

I keep them, I refuse to give them away. Books are precious to me and though I've taken to reading on a Kindle, I just won't give up such precious books. You never know and maybe, nostalgia, yes even books I used for university courses even though some of them, not my art books, are so old now. [/quote]

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Gave some, kept a lot

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:47:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Gave some, kept a lot

I gave many dictionaries and other books when in 2015 I moved from Bussels to Lisbon, but even so kept a lot of them. Some are still in my basement in boxes; others are on my bookshelf near my desk. Even if I don’t use most of them anymore, I love the sight of them, as they have been my faithful companions for a long time...

I should add that I have one or two dictionaries – which were quite expensive – in duplicate (such as the Stedman, for example) because for a few years (2006–2015) I divided my working time between Lisbon and Brussels…

[Edited at 2026-07-07 10:11 GMT]

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Specialized dictionaries ctd.

PAS — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:37:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: PAS
Post title: Specialized dictionaries ctd.

@Daryo - Definitely, but the question is - will you ever translate in that particular specialized field? I am slowly approaching the end of the line (meant to say: the end of my career) and chances of working in other fields are diminishing. So...

At the risk of sounding lugubrious, there is one other overarching concern - after your kids come home from your funeral, they will look at all your clutter and say "what do we do with all this junk?" I want to save them the bother ;)

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Never had them

Gianni Pastore — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:47:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Gianni Pastore
Post title: Never had them

By the time my career was up and running, you could already find anything you ever needed on the web, so I never bothered.

What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use? | Keep them

Daryo — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:28:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: What do you do with dictionaries you no longer use?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Keep them

Some are so specialised that you can't find any 'online alternative'.