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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4670 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 169 of 198 08 June 2014 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
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Japanese copyright laws - Amazon are not allowed to sell books to customers outside
Japan. I get around that by using Tenso, which gave me a fake address anda contact number to use. Tenso is free to use unless you actually order anything physical. Apart from that, I'm using my own bank card and stuff, so no stealing. Also, that project worked, but suddenly stopped working about an hour before the time trials. Edited by stifa on 08 June 2014 at 10:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5779 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 170 of 198 08 June 2014 at 11:43am | IP Logged |
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It's not down to Japanese laws. You can't buy digital files from, say, Amazon France outside
of France either. It will be down to their agreements with the rights holders. It's the biggest reason I haven't switched from dead tree yet. I find it frustrating. I have money I want to give them for stuff and they're just not interested... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4670 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 171 of 198 08 June 2014 at 12:38pm | IP Logged |
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I see your point. I would have kept to dead trees too if I didn't have 15% vision. :p
Being able to jack up the size of the characters to maybe 4 or 5 times what is normally used in Japanese books is a godsend in my opinion: I can actually enjoy a book without shoving it onto my face with a magnifying glass placed between me and it. Amazon UK has never complained about me buying stuff when I'm back in Norway though. Heck, I started buying stuff from them when I was living in Norway. It seems Amazon JP is much stricted than the others. In addition, the ebook market is still in its infancy, and publishers tend to be a bit old-fashioned. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4981 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 172 of 198 09 June 2014 at 12:24am | IP Logged |
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I'm guessing the selection of Japanese language ebooks is better from Amazon.jp than from amazon.com... Man I can't believe how bad the stuff on amazon.com is. There's like 10,000 books or something and nothing to read.
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4670 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 173 of 198 09 June 2014 at 1:15am | IP Logged |
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I'm currently reading a Japanese book I found on the UK Amazon page, before I got my JP
account working. It's a pretty silly sci-fi detective story called Junk City, and I actually enjoy it. ６月８日 今日ログに日本語で書こうとする。 最近、たいていニコ動に実況プレイ動画を見 る。 俺（こんな自分の読み方はここに 適 切かな？）の聴解はもう最低だな。だから、 そのようなビデオのはアニメやドラマより分 かりやすいと思う。 ドイツ語の 経験 の通りだ。 始めにドラマや映画は難しいとおもった、で も多いＶＬＯＧや実況プレイを見たあと、 分かりやすくなっ た。 そうして、日本語で同じことをしようとして る。 I can really feel how my little break from Japanese has made me forgot a lot of words. In fact, I actaully spent 15 minutes or so writing that. To sum up what I've done in Japanese before during the first half of 2014: I've read the fourth HP book, and...yeah that's it. :( I aim to spend more time with Japanese from now on though, because I'm really satisfied with my passive German skills right now, and watching stuff in German hardly counts as practice anymore. Edited by stifa on 09 June 2014 at 1:40am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4670 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 174 of 198 10 June 2014 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
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10th June
I gave in to my temptations yesterday and went ahead and bought a Kindle Paperwhite 2. My first impressions: it appears to be really slow, but I assume that this is simply a measure to ensure a long battery life. The sccreen is really good though, and when the backlight is turned off it appears as if it is printed on the device. I assume that's where they get the e-ink term from. It's got a built-in Japanese-English dictionary, and seems excellent for both German and Japanese. However, I'd really appreciate a slightly larger screen, because my current font size, it only allows about 7 lines à 19* characters, which is approximately a third of what the Tadoku folks regard as a page (if the page is full of text, that is). Also, my departure is postponed for at least another week, that is, I got an internship interview on the 19th. This means that I'm waiting for feedback on a preliminary interview at one company, I've got an interview at another, and I'm yet to hear anything from the third. It seems that I haven't got any competition in the German sub-category of Tadoku. I'm at first with almost four times as many pages as the second place. I can't keep up with general ranking though, because of all those people playing games from dawn to dusk. I find the "scores" of UrsSchmidt, MTSranger and Radioclare a lot more impressive than the top 4. (* I can also zoom out one notch, which gives space for 10x23 characters, but I find that really difficult to read, and this makes it hard to distinguish some kanji, as well as daukten/handakuten, eg. ぱ and ば.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4419 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 175 of 198 10 June 2014 at 10:39pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the review of the Paperwhite, and Good luck! with your interviews.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4981 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 176 of 198 11 June 2014 at 2:31am | IP Logged |
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How do you find looking stuff up in the dictionary on the paper white? Is it awkward to select words or pretty
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