Thanks Gome, very useful tips! Anybody else with experience Mnemosyne - Kindle or Mnemosyne scan/ OCR?
/ Henrik On Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:19:04 UTC+2, Gome wrote: > > Hello Henric, I own the kindle touch and kindle dx. > > On Saturday, September 8, 2012 1:33:23 PM UTC+2, Henrik in Oslo wrote: >> >> Kindle-users, I have some questions... >> I think I may get back into reading /listening to books again..... this >> time electronically :-) >> >> If I buy Kindle, will I be able to: >> 1) easily look up explanation (or translation) of words in English, >> German, Italian, Norwegian? >> > Yes, it is easy to look up words. English, Spanish, Germain, Italian, and > Portogeese are supported for the touch. As far as I know all languages are > supported on the kindle keyboard (currently owner of the kindle dx), but > other languages than those mentioned is not supported by the touch. There > is however a workaround by setting the i.e. Norwegian book and the > dictionary to english to that the touch treats it as an english book and > you may use ut. Norwegian dictionaries are more rare and you may need to > convert an existing dicitonary. > > >> 2) easily take notes by copying parts of text to paste into Mnemosyne (or >> Notepad, Evernote or similar standard .txt document)? >> > Everything you underline is stored as an txt avaviable by usb and on > device. And it's easy. > > >> 3) read (and/or listen to) books I have bought or borrowed on win7-pc, >> mac, android cell-phone *as well as* on Kindle device? >> > All devices are supported and books bought on amazon are synced between > them, books brought from elsewhere are not synced. Text-to-speech is only > supported on the device. > > >> >> Thank you! >> >> / Henrik >> PS. I now use scanner/ camera and OCR to bring info from paper to >> Mnemosyne. Works well, but is time-consuming and tedious.... >> > You may bould your own: http://www.diybookscanner.org/ > I use the Plustec opticBook. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mnemosyne-proj-users/-/NZdy-h5do-UJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
