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I have two Kobos, but haven't used them much in the last several months as I now prefer reading on either my Nova Pro or Note Pro by Onyx.

The Kobos were good for reading Japanese. They could display the text vertically and could display furigana properly. However, books had to be in the kepub format for the look-up dictionary to work. Not a huge problem because it is fairly simple to convert epub to kepub.

However,I find that the recent Onyx ereaders are much better for reading in Japanese. First of all, there are more dictionaries readily available. You can also install other Android apps. There are a couple of Japanese dictionary apps that I regularly use.

The stock app on the Onyx ereaders does not work all that well with Japanese because it does not display furigana properly. However, the Moon+ Reader app works wonderfully and displays furigana properly.

With Moon+ Reader, you can use the ColorDict or GoldenDict apps to lookup words on a short press. You can have a different dictionary or app set to lookup the word on a long press. You can also copy the word or phrase to the clipboard and paste it into another dictionary app. The software on the newer Onyx ereaders has a multi task window which allows you to jump between apps fairly easily which makes it good for looking up information as you are reading.

Another advantage of both the Nova Pro and the Note Pro is that you can use the stylus to input information. So you can draw the kanji and enter the information for a search that way instead of having to type using romaji.

Also, the Onyx ereaders do a much better job of handling PDFs. One can find some very useful PDFs online for studying. One could also scan any textbooks and save them as a PDF file and then access them on your ereader.

I loved my Kobos for reading in Japanese, but can't really see myself ever going back to use them again for that purpose. The workflow is just so much better on the recent Onyx devices.