Hello everyone.

I have successfully put the software "Duokan", made by a Chinese company and designed to show Japanese / Korean and 2 flavours of Chinese "properly", on my 2nd generation Kindle 2 Internationl ( B003...serial number ).

The sites...

here: http://flip.netzbeben.de/2010/11/duokan-...gui-today/

...and...

here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthr...p?t=105847

The install makes it a "dual-boot" Kindle, and the OS "Duokan" does not interfere with normal Kindle operation.

It's features are not identical to the Kindle's - it has some menu features that the Kindle does not, and visa-versa (remember I am talking about Kindle 2, but Duokan works on all models from "2" onwards, according to the site / blogs).

This is NOT a post about PDF files on a Kindle.
I use "Calibre", also free, to put "other than Amazon" files on my Kindle, and it converts them for you (html to kindle; epub to Kindle etc etc).

Ebook features like bookmarks, searching etc are built-in.

Awesome! Does this mean I can buy Japanese E-books and read them on my kindle?

Edit: Nvm It seems you need a kindle keyboard to run it.

Splatted Wrote:Awesome! Does this mean I can buy Japanese E-books and read them on my kindle?

Edit: Nvm It seems you need a kindle keyboard to run it.

I thought you could already read Japanese on the Kindle 3+?

From what I hear, there is Japanese text support and they can use PDFs. I think I'll be getting a kindle 4 tomorrow, the basic model, if I remember I'll try and see how if it works alright.

Edit: I managed to get through the Aozora Bunko website, download Kokoro in .HTML format, convert it it .mobi and it seems to display alright, seems like it'll work but I haven't tried it on a Kindle yet.

Necrojesta Wrote:From what I hear, there is Japanese text support and they can use PDFs. I think I'll be getting a kindle 4 tomorrow, the basic model, if I remember I'll try and see how if it works alright.

Edit: I managed to get through the Aozora Bunko website, download Kokoro in .HTML format, convert it it .mobi and it seems to display alright, seems like it'll work but I haven't tried it on a Kindle yet.

Amazon is expect to release the Kindle in Japan anytime now (within the next few months). Maybe you should hold off on buying that Kindle.

Necrojesta Wrote:From what I hear, there is Japanese text support and they can use PDFs. I think I'll be getting a kindle 4 tomorrow, the basic model, if I remember I'll try and see how if it works alright.

Edit: I managed to get through the Aozora Bunko website, download Kokoro in .HTML format, convert it it .mobi and it seems to display alright, seems like it'll work but I haven't tried it on a Kindle yet.

I can confirm that Japanese PDF's work perfectly fine on my 1st-gen Kindle DX.

The Japanese .mobi works fine, I have Kokoro on there, easy to get. If they release a Japanese kindle it matters not really, there's still the books on Aozora Bunko I can get for free, plus an import would be more pricey.

If they start releasing more ebooks in Japan, maybe I'll get them through less proper means if necessary.