iPad Kindle app on Ipad

[tygn]

Kindle app on IOS also supports dictionary just like Kindle? I guess there's no vocabulary builder and flash cards but at least word look up works?

Also, how good is the IBooks dictionary comparing to Kindle dictionaries?

[tomsem]

Kindle for iOS has good dictionary support, and you can purchase third party dictionaries to supplement Amazon's. It also has a Translate feature: you can select text and have it translated to any of 15 other languages (uses Bing Translator, so you have to be online). It will also use Text To Speech to read out the translated text. No Vocabulary builder, but you can copy text and paste that to the note taking app of your choice. Amazon recently added Word Wise to the Android app, and I expect that may show up on iOS before long. This offers definitions of 'difficult' words in between the lines of text.

I think Translate is in general more useful than a translation dictionary, since you can translate entire sentences and not just single words, even where the quality of the translation is inferior.

The Kindle app uses the same dictionaries for English as iBooks, it seems (New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary of English).

[markom]

Originally Posted by tygn

Kindle app on IOS also supports dictionary just like Kindle? I guess there's no vocabulary builder and flash cards but at least word look up works?

Also, how good is the IBooks dictionary comparing to Kindle dictionaries?

You can also have some good dictionary (with vocabulary builder ...) simultaneously opened and then enter there quickly with a simple swipe whenever needed from any current app.

[tygn]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Kindle for iOS has good dictionary support, and you can purchase third party dictionaries to supplement Amazon's. It also has a Translate feature: you can select text and have it translated to any of 15 other languages (uses Bing Translator, so you have to be online). It will also use Text To Speech to read out the translated text. No Vocabulary builder, but you can copy text and paste that to the note taking app of your choice. Amazon recently added Word Wise to the Android app, and I expect that may show up on iOS before long. This offers definitions of 'difficult' words in between the lines of text.

I think Translate is in general more useful than a translation dictionary, since you can translate entire sentences and not just single words, even where the quality of the translation is inferior.

The Kindle app uses the same dictionaries for English as iBooks, it seems (New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary of English).

Thanks for such a detailed explanation tomsem, I'm thinking to buy an Ipad just for online articles and newspapers but I think it will never be like reading on Kindle. Already I'm on my computer all day long at work and kindle still feels like best device for reading. Never thought about Android devices actually, I'm not Apple fan but the screen quality still on Apple's side.

[tygn]

Originally Posted by markom

You can also have some good dictionary (with vocabulary builder ...) simultaneously opened and then enter there quickly with a simple swipe whenever needed from any current app.

Thanks markom, that's an idea but that simultaneously thing sounds little bit struggle after Kindle's build in dictionary, wish they can bring this to any other platform other than Kindle.

[harriska2]

If you use Marvin for your epub reading (by putting the purchased Amazon book into Calibre and exporting to epub), it has a vocabulary list you can add each word into then export it in csv format to a flashcard program of your choice. Is the flashcard system in Kindle fire or just any eink Kindle?

[tomsem]

One weakness of the current iOS app is the lack of sharing options apart from Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, and copy to clipboard. Copy is probably good enough for keeping a vocabulary list (in the note-taking app of your choice).