Your Experiences using Kindles for Japanese?

this isn’t instant and doesn’t pull in all the data from the cards like I have anki setup
though seems like a nice tool for those that might want to use something like that

An example of how my android tablet (kiwi) is setup (laptop is brave):

kindle doesn’t do anything like this :wink: yet!

ttsu and yomitan have spoiled me!

and now the import to anki is seemless between the laptop and tablet so can easily switch between the two devices and keep going.

don’t have an example handy of my anki cards at the moment but basically I export the data to a delimited file, import into a spreadsheet and from start from the last point I exported…[ I beyond censored hate anki reviews sooooo much would rather do almost anything else ]

…take that vocab and copy those directly into renshuu (easy to build new or add vocab to existing lists). The sentences are also automatically pulled into anki from yomitan. Those take a little more work but easy enough to take the sentence list and bring that into renshuu. They cannot be reviewed until bound to the renshuu jisho and that is a mildly annoying step but isn’t horrible (not much different than using ichi.moe).

But once everything is in a neat exportable spreadsheet, can do anything you want with it with any srs program.

I am being picky about what vocab I add based on freq lists (have a few of those in the dictionary) - mostly want to learn from sentences vs vocab srs…more fun to enjoy reading than grind out srs reviews. They also stick a lot better for me. The crosswords from vocab are fun though!

If the kindle scribe worked like this i’d use it more than the tablet (it’s light and easy on the eyes) but still a bit slow and cannot write in epub (can side load a pdf but no dictionary lookups…it’s kind of silly)

edit…since a kindle thread should probably throw what this same book looks like on the kindle scribe (with the side loaded dictionaries - had to take photos first

side loaded dictionary selection

not as pretty as ttsu yomitan but it does work (even if no pixiv kindle dictionary)

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Does anyone else ever find their Kindle (mine is latest Paperwhite) just freezes while doing lookups + highlight? Mine’s done it maybe 3-4 times, not in close proximity, but it can last for like a good 10-20(?) seconds. Doesn’t seem to be a storage space issue (I have more than enough), so wondering what’s up

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Occasionally my (c. 2018) Kindle will just full on lock up and will need a restart. I know that’s not super helpful, but I don’t think the software is particularly great…

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Weird, I never had any of such issues and I’m using also an old one from 2018.

I usually have flight mode on the whole time, dunno if that matters.

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Last year I had an issue for a while where lookups wouldn’t work period, and I had to restart. I haven’t had that issue in months though, so I think they probably fixed that bug. Haven’t had any problems lately.

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I also usually have airplane mode on, and did when this occured most recently

Not the end of the world, since it’s infrequent, but still

If you always have that on it’s possible there’s an update available that you missed. Maybe check for that.

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Does anyone have recommendations for these clamp arm things? Just got hospitalised & am only allowed to lie down. Needs to be extremely light and easy for me to get in and out of place without moving anything except my arms while laying down. Ideally just want to hover it reading distance away from my head with a clicker.

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No recommendations, but I’m sure that any Kindle/tablet holder made to use in bed would work just fine.