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martinrebas · 12-11-2014, 01:31 PM

I bought a Sony PRS-T1 a few years ago; people said it had the best dictionaries, but it turned out to be extremely buggy and I'm now looking to replace it.

I was planning on buying the Kobo Aura H2O (I liked the epub and CBZ/CBR support as well as the large size and high resolution), but as people have written that Kobo devices can be buggy, and the dictionaries are so-so, I'm now leaning toward a Kindle Paperwhite 2. (The Voyage costs $316 where I live, which is a bit more than I'm prepared to pay.)

As far as I've heard, you can buy excellent dictionaries for the Kindle, and I should be able to convert my epubs to mobi with Calibre and transfer them using USB. (Right?)

My questions are:

Would buying the Paperwhite 2 be a good decision?

How good are the Kindle's included monolingual dictionaries? EDIT: I tried out the ones included in the Kindle Android app, and if it's the same ones, then they're good. There are even Chinese-English and Japanese-English dictionaries that I could download for free! Does anyone know if they're included in the list of dictionaries on a Kindle Paperwhite 2? On the Kindle app, their names are "中文-英语" and "日本語-英語".

12-11-2014, 01:31 PM	#1
martinrebas Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: --	Best ereader for language learning? I bought a Sony PRS-T1 a few years ago; people said it had the best dictionaries, but it turned out to be extremely buggy and I'm now looking to replace it. I was planning on buying the Kobo Aura H2O (I liked the epub and CBZ/CBR support as well as the large size and high resolution), but as people have written that Kobo devices can be buggy, and the dictionaries are so-so, I'm now leaning toward a Kindle Paperwhite 2. (The Voyage costs $316 where I live, which is a bit more than I'm prepared to pay.) As far as I've heard, you can buy excellent dictionaries for the Kindle, and I should be able to convert my epubs to mobi with Calibre and transfer them using USB. (Right?) My questions are: Would buying the Paperwhite 2 be a good decision? How good are the Kindle's included monolingual dictionaries? EDIT: I tried out the ones included in the Kindle Android app, and if it's the same ones, then they're good. There are even Chinese-English and Japanese-English dictionaries that I could download for free! Does anyone know if they're included in the list of dictionaries on a Kindle Paperwhite 2? On the Kindle app, their names are "中文-英语" and "日本語-英語". Last edited by martinrebas; 12-12-2014 at 08:33 AM.