I have just adquired a Kindle. It makes perfect sense for me.
I have just uploaded a .txt with some vocabulary and it renders Japanese beautifully.
It can also read PDF files, thought have not tried that yet.

It connects to Internet with 3G network. The browser is pretty bad, I can use this site but it is not very comfortable.

How would you take advantage of a device like that to learn?

Basically it is like carrying around a lot of paper with whatever you want printed on it with you.
Printing a list of vocabulary? books? If so any resource for them? I have checked Gutenberg but those look horribly difficult.

do pdfs of manga work?

i'd be tempted to get one if so...

If you tell me where to download one I try

BTW I found the sticky! thread on the learning resources forum on audiobooks and they work perfectly, both audio (it reads .mp3s) and text (I am copying the transcripts to .txt files because then I can set up how big I want to font). Unfortunately it can not display text while reading audio.
It seems that PDF are like a big image, has to zoom it and out and move ackwardly around, anyway I want to try some.

Manga on Kindle: http://foosoft.net/mangle/
One of our fellow RevTKers cooked that up, so be sure to thank him if you find it useful.
I don't actually have a Kindle, but was considering buying one or an iPad to read manga on.

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I guess it would be awesome if users could hack their own audiobooks. Then I'd use only one page, unless flipping page isn't too slow.. and you would be able to listen to the audio as well as read it at the same time. In theory, mind you as I don't have a Kindle. But perhaps there are already workable audiobooks on Amazon Japan?

I will never buy a Kindle and never again buy a Kindle book (Kindle for PC). I can't handle that DRM stuff--I have a paperback and a digital copy of a book that I can't even take proper notes with for Anki without going around my elbow to my butt. The powers that be really need to work this out and ensure they can deliver 'unlocked' goods to customers. It's sad that we're a decade into the 21st century and still haven't worked out this capitalism/piracy/copyright/IP thing. ;p

ファブリス Wrote:and you would be able to listen to the audio as well as read it at the same time. In theory, mind you as I don't have a Kindle. But perhaps there are already workable audiobooks on Amazon Japan?

Unfortunately kindle dont let to hear an audiobook and read at the same time. I think the developers didn't think of that user case. But yes, that would really rock
And Amazon Japan has no kindle goods

BTW, looking for text for it I found this site http://comic.92wy.com/go/list_t_9_7.htm
movies, manga and novels in Chinese.

DRM sucks but I understand books are small files, easy to copy and distribute.
So some anti-copy measure has to be there or no publisher would jump on the e-book train.
Anyway disallow to copy/paste text or words is plain stupid...

nest0r Wrote:I will never buy a Kindle and never again buy a Kindle book (Kindle for PC). I can't handle that DRM stuff--I have a paperback and a digital copy of a book that I can't even take proper notes with for Anki without going around my elbow to my butt. The powers that be really need to work this out and ensure they can deliver 'unlocked' goods to customers. It's sad that we're a decade into the 21st century and still haven't worked out this capitalism/piracy/copyright/IP thing. ;p

nest0r Wrote:I will never buy a Kindle and never again buy a Kindle book (Kindle for PC). I can't handle that DRM stuff--I have a paperback and a digital copy of a book that I can't even take proper notes with for Anki without going around my elbow to my butt. The powers that be really need to work this out and ensure they can deliver 'unlocked' goods to customers. It's sad that we're a decade into the 21st century and still haven't worked out this capitalism/piracy/copyright/IP thing. ;p

We've worked it out fine. Large corporations use DRM, we ignore it and pirate the living daylights out of every media source we can get our grubby mitts on. Kindle included - just convert your internet sourced PDFs with calibre and hey-presto - pretty kindle reflowing ebooks.

To the OP - check out the audiobooks thread for Japanese novels. I've got a kindle on order and will be using it for listening-reading with the audio playing on my iPhone.

I've made up some manga pdf files and read them on my new kindle. I would say that the text for the most part on them is just the tiniest bit too small (this is when having the pdf full screen without zooming)... well it's perfectly readable except when there is a kanji you don't know it can be hard to make out the strokes or furigana to look it up sometimes. So in other words it's great but I wish the kanji was one step bigger. Loving the kindle!