Highly recommend it. Bought one myself. Super easy to use, exporting highlights is super nice, and being able to put all my study pdfs on there is an added bonus. Well worth the money Haven’t seen an option to add or hide furigana, but I’m in the “no furigana” club.
furigana wont be added by the kindle, it must have already been added by the book itself, so you cant add or disable it.
Kindle in combination with kindle unlimited is a great tool, you will have seemingly unlimited books for I think ~1000 yen per month. but I would only recommend it if you want to read non manga (you cant use the dicitionary and highlighting on mangas, so its the same as you would use our pc or phone).
If youre not already advanced, you will have to keep in mind that you will probably read a novel in like a month, so you have to decide if its going to be worth it for you to buy a kindle just for that, but nonetheless a kindle is great for reading japanese.
Ok thanks for the insight. Yeah I’m still only at around 200 kanjis. Im studying everyday learning more kanji, but I’d though I can start off maybe reading some kids books and working my way up
Personally, I didn’t like the experience of reading Japanese on Kindle, mainly because of relatively slow dictionary lookup.
I prefer reading in the Typhon app on Android. It’s a bit of a hassle to install it (the PlayStore version is old and unmaintained, you can find an updated one on GitHub), but it has Rikaikun and text-to-speech built in. If you want to use it on an eInk device, Onyx Boox e-readers are Android based.
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Highly recommend it. Bought one myself. Super easy to use, exporting highlights is super nice, and being able to put all my study pdfs on there is an added bonus. Well worth the money Haven’t seen an option to add or hide furigana, but I’m in the “no furigana” club.
furigana wont be added by the kindle, it must have already been added by the book itself, so you cant add or disable it.
Kindle in combination with kindle unlimited is a great tool, you will have seemingly unlimited books for I think ~1000 yen per month. but I would only recommend it if you want to read non manga (you cant use the dicitionary and highlighting on mangas, so its the same as you would use our pc or phone).
If youre not already advanced, you will have to keep in mind that you will probably read a novel in like a month, so you have to decide if its going to be worth it for you to buy a kindle just for that, but nonetheless a kindle is great for reading japanese.
Ok thanks for the insight. Yeah I’m still only at around 200 kanjis. Im studying everyday learning more kanji, but I’d though I can start off maybe reading some kids books and working my way up
Personally, I didn’t like the experience of reading Japanese on Kindle, mainly because of relatively slow dictionary lookup.
I prefer reading in the Typhon app on Android. It’s a bit of a hassle to install it (the PlayStore version is old and unmaintained, you can find an updated one on GitHub), but it has Rikaikun and text-to-speech built in. If you want to use it on an eInk device, Onyx Boox e-readers are Android based.