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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6612 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 9 of 33 21 July 2009 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Exactly! However, that one seems to get baaaad reviews. I found this site with links, reviews, news, etc., for all of you who understand Swedish, http://www.e-reader.se/ 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rafal Diglot Groupie Poland besmart.pl Joined 6788 days ago 83 posts - 85 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC1 Studies: German, Spanish | Message 10 of 33 21 July 2009 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I also have iRex DR1000S. It's not that bad after all but the battery life is ridiculously poor.
I'm not sure if Kindle supports third party dictionaries. iRex, Bookeen and others do support Mobipocket dictionaries. You might want to get a Palm (or PocketPC) device like Zire 71. You can buy it used for about $25. Then install Mobipocket reader on it, buy a Mobipocket dictionary and everytime you don't know a word just tap it with the stylus. When you buy a dictionary make sure it supports headword search though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5772 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 11 of 33 22 July 2009 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah that seems to be the one to get. Biggest screen, handwriting recognition and format agnostic. Where did you two get yours from? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6612 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 12 of 33 22 July 2009 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The new Sony one seems to include note-taking, but I'm not sure.
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| rafal Diglot Groupie Poland besmart.pl Joined 6788 days ago 83 posts - 85 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC1 Studies: German, Spanish | Message 13 of 33 22 July 2009 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I bought my DR1000S back in November 2008 from a local vendor.
You might want to visit MobileRead forums at http://www.mobileread.com/forums to learn more about e-ink devices. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5603 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 14 of 33 22 July 2009 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
I bought mine from here: http://www.iliadreader.co.uk/ It is the UK distributor - but they ship world-wide. Mine was sent out the same day I ordered it - and delivery within the EU is 3 days.
I looked at the Sony 700 - but rejected it because the screen they have used is not as good as any other eBook reader. They do use eInk but have added a layer on top of it that makes it reflective and therefore almost useless for long term reading. It is a shame, since the Sony 505 shows that Sony can indeed make great eBook readers. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5724 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 15 of 33 02 March 2010 at 1:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have about 180 french books on my kindle, and my default kindle dictionary is the Merriam-Webster's French-English Translation Dictionary.
http://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Websters-French-English-Transl ation-Dictionary-ebook/dp/B002ROKQU6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG 56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1267488381&sr=1-1 This is a lot easier than looking up words in a separate book. I move the cursor to a word that I don't know and I get the definition at the bottom of the page. French public domain ebooks sites: http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php http://beq.ebooksgratuits.com/vents/index.htm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6786 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 16 of 33 02 March 2010 at 10:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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1 Has anybody tried using a parallel novel, as used in LR, on his device?
2 Are all of these devices as controlling as Kindle? Are there any that basically let me put whatever I want on them, without worrying about coast guard deleting my files? 3 Are there any pop-up dictionaries for Japanese that I could use? It's too bad that devices that can handle pdfs are not that great. Have you considered a new iPad for pdfs? I'm sure the battery life will not be quite as good as e-ink, but it shouldn't have any problems displaying them correctly. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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