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Originally Posted by vostro
i bought kobo mainly for local library compatibility and kindle for better language and dictionary support. i guess kindle family products profit might be still too small for amazon to expand its kindle product line for same bigger size of aura one. i was hoping amazon could release similar size of aura one this year but newly leaked info renders it hopeless, just like it's hopeless to expect kobo could expand dictionary and language support. btw, kindle touch with built-in speaker and text-to-speak is my favouite feature but it's a pity no newer models has this.(i didn't notice anybody else discussing chinese language books loading and freezing issue but all my kobos got this issue for many books.)
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I haven't experienced any difficulty loading or reading Chinese books on my KA1 since learning how to sideload Chinese fonts onto the device. It did freeze once when I was attempting to look up a Chinese character using a sideloaded Chinese-English dictionary. But, apart from that one time, I have had no issues with freezing and I have looked up hundreds of characters.
I was able to sideload a Chinese-English dictionary to the device from generous posts found on this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...82#post3508282
However, if you are looking for better Chinese language support and text-to-speech software, you may want to consider a device from Onyx. I have been able to download multiple Chinese dictionaries to my Onyx Max. Chinese-Chinese, Chinese-English and English-Chinese as well as a chengyu dictionary. They work well. I was also able to install Google Chinese language TTS software.
Although the Max is large and expensive, I believe they have some of the same hardware and software on some of their other devices.