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Kumabjorn · 10-14-2011, 08:03 PM

Hi all!

Happy Kindle user for a little more than a year. Only drawback for me was that Japanese Amazon never released Kindle books by Japanese authors. Being on a short visit in Japan I decided to take a look at the Sony Reader and picked up the Japanese PRS-350. I really like the form factor and in a way I'm oddly taken by the typically quirky Japanese software (like finding bookmaks by looking for notes). Unfortunately I become tied in to Sony's Japanese eco-system and one of the oddities is that in order to register my PRS-350 and get access to their Japanese bookstore I need to have a Japanese mobile phone based e-mail address (since I don't live in Japan I can't get that). So I am still not able to purchase books.
Now, for a bunch of questions:
1) Anyone here with access to Sony's Japanese bookstore?
2) When buying non-Japanese books, where do you do that?
3) Is there transfer software available for Android?
4) It comes with support for English dictionaries, does it also support Japanese dictionaries?

10-14-2011, 08:03 PM	#1
Kumabjorn Basculocolpic Posts: 4,356 Karma: 20181319 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sweden Device: Kindle 3 WiFi, Kindle 4SO, Kindle for Android, Sony PRS-350 and PRS-T1	Japanese version Hi all! Happy Kindle user for a little more than a year. Only drawback for me was that Japanese Amazon never released Kindle books by Japanese authors. Being on a short visit in Japan I decided to take a look at the Sony Reader and picked up the Japanese PRS-350. I really like the form factor and in a way I'm oddly taken by the typically quirky Japanese software (like finding bookmaks by looking for notes). Unfortunately I become tied in to Sony's Japanese eco-system and one of the oddities is that in order to register my PRS-350 and get access to their Japanese bookstore I need to have a Japanese mobile phone based e-mail address (since I don't live in Japan I can't get that). So I am still not able to purchase books. Now, for a bunch of questions: 1) Anyone here with access to Sony's Japanese bookstore? 2) When buying non-Japanese books, where do you do that? 3) Is there transfer software available for Android? 4) It comes with support for English dictionaries, does it also support Japanese dictionaries?