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| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6231 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 57 of 67 31 August 2011 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | ||
I use Calibre to manage my Kindle as well. It's brilliant, and makes organising thousands of e-books a far more efficient process. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6365 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 58 of 67 31 August 2011 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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dleewo,
That app looks pretty good. Does it translate words in PDF format? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dleewo Groupie United States Joined 5804 days ago 95 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 59 of 67 31 August 2011 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
It works *if* you have the app display the PDF in text-reflow mode. Basically, it extracts the text and displays it, but you lose all the PDF formatting. Derek 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6280 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 60 of 67 01 September 2011 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for that. This is exactly what I have been looking for but unable to find. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5533 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 61 of 67 01 September 2011 at 11:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Can anyone recommend a good English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionary for the Kindle?
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5306 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 62 of 67 01 September 2011 at 11:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I assume that you know about Dave Slusher's free Spanish Kindle dictionaries.
If you're looking for more quality, check out the MobiPocket web site. (Most MobiPocket dictionaries will work on the Kindle. You can test this by downloading a sample dictionary file.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5533 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 63 of 67 01 September 2011 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks. I was aware of those. Unless I've missed something, Dave only offers a ES-EN, not EN-ES. Also, I was hoping for a recommendation from someone who had actually used a particular one and found it useful. Jim Edited by JimC on 01 September 2011 at 2:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4875 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 64 of 67 01 September 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do not find the kindle (and I'm assuming other ebook readers) useful one bit for learning languages. It is too
clunky to navigate. I downloaded a couple FSI pdf's, and it's frustrating to try to find anything on any of them. As others have mentioned, it is designed for reading. I love bringing it on trips - I'm not anti-Kindle at all! It just doesn't work for me, for language study. Now, I think if I were more literate in any of my target languages the kindle would be very useful. Although the price of ebooks keeps going up, and the inexpensive books can be very shoddy I have fantasized about a "double-kindle" that showed parallel texts! That would be quite amazing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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