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I agree that a Kindle Paperwhite (or Voyage) would be the best fit for most of your needs. I also agree that you probably want to convert the PDF's. PDF's tend to be difficult to read on a small screen, even if they're text. Most ereaders are designed for epub or mobi formats. They'll all read PDF but you won't like it.
The Paperwhite does have an on-board dictionary. You can also put a German to English dictionary on it.
It can give you easy in-line access to translations and to Wikipedia as long as it's connected to the internet so you might want to look at the 3G models if this is important to you, and if they'll work where you'll be travelling. I also like to look up things on Wikipedia as I read and to translate any foreign phrases I run across in my reading so I use the 3G version. It's never failed me yet but I don't travel that far.
You can use the freeware program Calibre to convert your PDF's to mobi format as long as they don't have DRM. Conversion from PDF takes longer than from other formats but it'll still convert the average book in less than a minute.
Barry
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