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>I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is One reason I'm stuck with Kindles is because Amazon makes it sane to look up words when reading Japanese books
by just_for_you 4y ago
>I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is
One reason I'm stuck with Kindles is because Amazon makes it sane to look up words when reading Japanese books and articles.
When you use Amazon's "Send to my Kindle" service (eg, you email a book to yourself, and then it appears on your device), Amazon seems to do some kind of de-conjugation which magically knows how to break-apart terms and grammar so that you can easily look anything up. Normally, if uploading straight to your device, or if using a Kobo, a term you want to look up has to match your on-device dictionary exactly, which is clunky and awful, especially since Japanese doesn't use spaces and has lots of inflections.
If Kobo had something similar, I'd ditch using Kindles entirely.
- gambiting 4y agoAs someone whose first language isn't English - 100000x times this. The fact that I can just hold down on any word and instantly see its definition is just incredible. It's a must have feature of any e-reader for me.
- Derbasti 4y agoKobos have this feature
- gambiting 4y agoDidn't know that! Can you upload custom dictionaries to them? That was my only gripe with how Kindles do it - they support this feature in some languages but not others.
- goosedragons 4y agoYeah it's possible but it's not an official feature (it's not hard though).
- Derbasti 4y agoWhat are you talking about? It's built right into the Kobo reader, and has been for years. https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017639893-Define-words-with-the-dictionary-on-your-Kobo-eReader https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017639893-Define-...
- goosedragons 4y agoThe dictionary is a built-in official feature and includes options in few different languages but CUSTOM dictionaries are not. It's possible to add dictionaries beyond what Kobo includes but it takes a little bit of work.
- Derbasti 4y agoI missed the "custom". Sorry about that.
- Derbasti 4y agoIt seems to be a limited selection of languages (EN, DE, ES, FR, IT, PT, TR, SE, JP on my Kobo), with both EN-XX and XX-XX available for most languages. It doesn't look like you can add your own, at least not on my kobo.
- ta988 4y agoIf you use Koreader then yes there are hundreds of dictionaries you can put.