I'm currently on a Kindle and while overall the experience is good it does lack in some areas – sometimes it won't be able to translate (don't know what it uses aside from it isn't Google translate) and it'd be really useful to have which conjugation I'm looking at listed. It also sometimes gets word boundaries wrong, not letting me select between two characters when I want, but this could be something to do with my dictionaries or how the book is formatted, maybe? It's rare so not looked into it.
That said it's less hassle to buy and download a book as opposed to going through Caliber faff, though I'd do that if the end result was good enough.
What e-reader/setup do you have, and do you think it's better than my current one?
by Slight_Sugar_3363
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I have a kindle but never use it because my boox palma makes it obsolete imo. I use the default boox reader, other tools, apps, and custom GPTs for Japanese and other languages.
I just use the Jidoujisho app on my phone, it’s pretty good for quick look ups and sentence mining. Which is basically all I need
I use a Boox Poke5 with Yomitan setup in kiwi browser for easy lookup. You can use reader.ttsu.app to manage and read books. I came from a kindle and the experience is definitely better, although battery life is a bit worse.
I use an iPad, I hesitate to call it “better” because it’s technically a different category of device, but I mostly use it for Japanese study. I tend to prefer physical books but I like to keep most of my collection digitally on my iPad as well, it’s nice for taking on the go and in some cases I’ll have a digital English copy of something I own physically in Japanese especially if it’s more difficult material