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Old 06-28-2010, 08:41 AM   #16
petechan
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I'm sorry if this comment is not in line with what is being discussed here.

From Sylver's comments and in the examples he gives on the nook screen I can surmise that his knowledge of Chinese is quite deep since he uses classical texts in his reading.

I don't know what the reading level of Mr. Summerholt is with regards chinese, I am coming to it from the level perhaps of 1st or 2nd year college chinese who can read entry level vernacular texts.

I have an aluratek libre which cannot display chinese fonts, so this is out of the question, but I do my chinese reading mainly on an ipod touch, and the reason for this is (and not really to put a shameless plug) because of the availability of the progam Pleco (which is IMHO, the best chinese learning dictionary out there for native English speakers). I can download chinese texts from throughout the web, display it on Pleco's document reader, and get instant point and pop-up English definitions. Also it has the excellent hanwang handwriting recognition that makes it easy to look up chinese words.

Again I don't know if this helps in the discussion, but I just want to put it out there for folks who are just learning Chinese as an alternative chinese ereader option.
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