Converting Aozora documents to Kindle
This part is based on the blog entry http://ebookyaro.blogspot.jp/2012/10/kindle-paperwhite-epub3.html but adapted for Linux. Necessary software: KindleGen: convert various formats to kindle format...
View ArticleHarry Potter in Japanese
There are digital versions of Harry Potter series sold by Potter More. The non-Japanese versions are available in Kindle format, but the Japanese versions are only available in epub3 format. If you...
View ArticleJapanese-English dictionary for the Kindle
You can get a Japanese-Japanese dictionary for free on the Kindle, but if you want to have translations, I recommend this Japanese-English dictionary. After having purchased and installed it on the...
View ArticleCheating Amazon Japan
Amazon advertises that the Kindle with 3G can access the store and the purchased books in more than 100 (or 150) countries of the world (see http://client0.cellmaps.com/viewer.html). Well, unless you...
View ArticleThe Pain of DRM
There is this new book you really want to read, published in Germany, hard to get in Japan, but there is a eBook version, so you are happy. You purchase the eBook happily (for the same price as for the...
View Articleハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
Hurray! I just finished my first full book in Japanese: ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石. I got the book from pottermore.com shop, the only place to get eBook versions of Harry Potter. I converted it myself to kindle...
View ArticleReading Japanese: Kindle Paperwhite versus Kobo Glo
There are already a lot of articles out there in the net comparing the two devices. Having quite similar specs I found that the reading experience with both units is very similar, as long as one stays...
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