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Originally Posted by Mujokan
I tried it out right now with "Night on the Galactic Railroad" (1927 public domain). Works fine. I will attach the epub, in case anyone wants to test. It displays left to right not up to down, but I find that easier anyway. Works fine and the dictionary still works of course.
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I made some tests on my two year old Boox 60 reader.
The vertical Japanese pdf files created with the help of the Aozora-Kindle site mentioned above are displayed nicely on the Boox 60, Kindle 3 and PRS-650 (non-Japanese version) without problem. The following imade is a screen capture on the Boox 60. It is the first page of of Yuugao section of the story of Genji translated into modern Japanese by a passionate lover and female poet Akiko Yosano.
The Boox 60 has StarDict function which works with a pdf file. The problem is with the dictionary window which is horizontal and has to be removed when you keep reading the vertical text;
If you are OK with horizontal Japanese texts, the horizontal dictionary window should not be of a very much problem, as it automatically keeps itself away from reading area. The following is an example of a pdf text re-flowed
Lastly the Night of the Galactic Railroad downloaded from the above link.
Boox 60 can handle many type of formats including ePub.
Thanks to the fact that Japanese kanji words do not decline, the dictionary function on the Boox 60 works OK with my mother tongue. But it fails to work with German words miserably, as it cannot detect declined and conjugated word forms.
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