Thread: E-reader for Japanese texts: Kindle PW or Kobo?
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Old 09-22-2013, 10:07 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by charmian View Post
Also, how is the US Kobo reader with respect to support for Japanese dictionary look-up and vertical text?
I can't read Japanese, but, for what it is worth...

Kobo don't differentiate their devices by country (except maybe availability). They all use the same firmware and can all be set to use Japanese for the interface. Or you can load a Japanese book onto it and read it.

Kobo devices have to reader applications. One is based on the Adobe SDK, and the other is ACCESS. Both will display Japanese, but only ACCESS will display it vertically. From what I have seen in the Kobo forum and in a test book, this works well. The dictionary lookup works, but I'm not sure how well. I remember some complaints a few firmware versions ago, but I think some of those problems were fixed.
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