chrisphillips71 Groupie United States Joined 5238 days ago 64 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 1 of 11 29 May 2014 at 3:06am | IP Logged |
Can someone tell me how to transport words that I highlight on my kindle to Anki?.
Ideally, I would like to add the English definition with a click of a button. If I can
include the source sentence that would be great too. I suspect that there is a way to do
it, but I have not found it yet. Any thoughts are appreciated.
-Chris
Edited by chrisphillips71 on 29 May 2014 at 3:06am
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4891 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 2 of 11 29 May 2014 at 3:41am | IP Logged |
My kindle just updated itself, and now saves every word I look up in a separate section
called "vocabulary builder." It's pretty cool.
For example, on the Vocabulary Page I'll select "Harry Potter" and find that I've
looked up 380 words already (yikes!). It will give my the dictionary definition
(e.g.: ansioso: ansi`oso, -a. ag. anxious) and the Usage (Il signor Weasley
continuava a controllare e ricontrollare ansioso la cartina della metropolitana
appesa sopra i finestri).
You can use convert them to flashcards on the kindle, where they give you the usage but
have to click for the English definition, and where you can mark a card as mastered.
It's not spaced-repetition like Anki, which is a drawback. I'd bet there is a way to
download the file and import it into another program, though.
Edited by kanewai on 29 May 2014 at 3:42am
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5322 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 3 of 11 29 May 2014 at 9:09am | IP Logged |
kanewai wrote:
My kindle just updated itself, and now saves every word I look up in a separate section called "vocabulary builder." |
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I'm thinking about getting a refurbished first generation Paperwhite, but, IIRC, the firmware of the first generation PWs didn't come with the vocabulary builder app. However, according to the Amazon firmware page, it does now.
What kind of Kindle and what firmware do you have?
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 4 of 11 29 May 2014 at 11:03am | IP Logged |
This has been on my to-do list for a while but I've not gotten round to it yet: copying my Kindle highlights from the last few books I've read into Anki.
On Amazon there's a Your Highlights page that shows everything you've highlighted. From there I suppose you can copy and paste into Anki. I haven't yet investigated if there's a simpler or more automated way, but for me it's going to require a bit of manual work anyway to set up cloze deletions etc.
I've never heard of the vocabulary builder thing before. Maybe my Kindle's too old.
Edited by garyb on 29 May 2014 at 11:04am
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5534 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 11 29 May 2014 at 1:28pm | IP Logged |
This is going to be unavoidably self-serving, but if you want to highlight entire sentences, and not just words, I have a tool in private beta that several HTLALers have been testing out. It works with the Kindle and Moon+ Reader Pro, and it comes with extensions for both Anki and Chrome. It currently supports English, French and Spanish, and it integrates with several online dictionaries.
If anybody's interested, PM me your email address and I'll get you set up. The only requirement for beta testing is that you send me an email afterwards saying what you didn't like. :-)
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rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5238 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin
| Message 6 of 11 29 May 2014 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
emk wrote:
This is going to be unavoidably self-serving, but if you want to highlight entire sentences, and not just words, I have a tool in private beta that several HTLALers have been testing out. It works with the Kindle and Moon+ Reader Pro, and it comes with extensions for both Anki and Chrome. It currently supports English, French and Spanish, and it integrates with several online dictionaries.
If anybody's interested, PM me your email address and I'll get you set up. The only requirement for beta testing is that you send me an email afterwards saying what you didn't like. :-) |
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Does it work with the opensource FBReader?
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5322 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 7 of 11 03 June 2014 at 9:35am | IP Logged |
@emk: I sent you a PM asking about the Kindle version of your tool, but haven't heard back from you. Can you please send me the link to the tool?
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LtM Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5862 days ago 130 posts - 223 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 8 of 11 04 June 2014 at 2:11am | IP Logged |
Doitsujin wrote:
What kind of Kindle and what firmware do you have? |
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I have a first generation Paperwhite, and it too recently updated itself to include the Vocabulary Builder.
My firmware version is: Kindle 5.4.4.2
The Vocabulary Builder is terrific! When I was first exploring it, I was worried that all of my looked-up words would be jumbled together in a confusing mix, but the Kindle also groups them according to the individual books that they originate from (especially important to those of us who read multiple languages on our device). So, although I can't select "all French vocabulary words" for example, I CAN select the title of a French book that I've read and practice just those words and not have to deal with words from other books or languages at the same time.
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