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| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6857 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 1 of 13 05 January 2013 at 11:12pm | IP Logged |
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I'm overwhelmed by Kindle options.
I like the screen of the Kindle Paper White. You can read books in other languages and download their dictionaries. With Kindle Fire, you can add on "Whispersync" audio technology. I like the thought of reading and listening to a foreign language. But so far, this only seems available in English. And if that's the case, perhaps the Paper White is enough? Any thoughts or recommendations? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 13 06 January 2013 at 12:18am | IP Logged |
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I'd go with the paper white. The e-ink technology makes it more versatile. Reading is more natural, portable and battery efficient. You can read outside in bright sunlight, a huge plus for me. The audio technology "Text to speech" only works for English, as far as I know. Get a Kindle e-ink and buy a better tablet.
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 3 of 13 06 January 2013 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
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It all depends on your needs. An ebook reader and a tablet are two very different devices. I'd go with the Paper White as well: it has all advantages of the e-ink technology, and it doesn't have its biggest drawback (for me at least): with the Paper White, you can read in the darkness without any extra source of light.
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| LtM Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5860 days ago 130 posts - 223 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 4 of 13 06 January 2013 at 2:18am | IP Logged |
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I second iguanamon's recommendation of the Paperwhite. You just can't beat its readability under any conditions.
The foreign language dictionaries that I've downloaded (French, Spanish, German) work great when reading foreign language books on my Kindle. Just highlight a word and up pops the dictionary with the definition. You can download free monolingual dictionaries (for those three languages plus Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese) from Amazon, or purchase TL->English ones, whatever works best with your learning style. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4524 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 5 of 13 06 January 2013 at 10:39am | IP Logged |
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If you are looking for a "reading" device, I think the choice should be of e-ink ones.
Kindle Touch is nice, it doesn't really hurt eyes, its price is comparably more affordable than newer ones. But of course there are some disadvantages : Size. For language studies, considering the fact that most of resources you can find are PDFs. They generally correspond to A4 paper size and Kindle devices are designed for real reading book sizes. When I find A4-sized materials, I copy them into a txt file to make them usable on kindle. If you can find, kindle DX can be a very good choice, its screen is as large as a A4 but price is high. They were saying that DX isn't sold anymore, I'm not sure for current situation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4682 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 6 of 13 06 January 2013 at 12:24pm | IP Logged |
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fireballtrouble just wrote my thoughts.
What did I buy at the end? A 9 inches PocketBook Pro! Big screen, and it reads just about any format (ePub, etc). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 5190 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 7 of 13 06 January 2013 at 2:31pm | IP Logged |
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I've got a Kindle Keyboard 3G and am very happy with it, although 3G is probably unnecessary if you have wifi access.
It has audio, which I don't think the Paperwhite has. This is very useful for listening to mp3's and audiobooks. You can jailbreak this Kindle to read the epub format. Don't know if you can do the same with all Kindles. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gumbril Tetraglot Newbie Estonia Joined 4424 days ago 5 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian | Message 8 of 13 06 January 2013 at 4:28pm | IP Logged |
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I bought Kobo Touch few months ago when I was in Canada. Saw it being used, liked it,
decided to buy. The design is IMHO better than that of the Kindle. I'm using it to read Harry Potter books in Spanish, among other things. The lack of in-built Spanish-English dictionary is a bit of a nuisance, but with the Kindle, I think the older versions (excluding Paperwhite) also only have English dictionary, no? Edit: OK, actually there is a Spanish-English dictionary in my Kobo. Just not as comfortable as the English-English one: have to open extra page for it. Edited by gumbril on 06 January 2013 at 4:52pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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