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Does work as a inline popup dictionary on the Kindle Paperwhite, August 11, 2013

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Tested on a Kindle Paperwhite. I could set it as the default Japanese dictionary, and it worked in the inline popup dictionary function.

Pros: Since it is based on EDICT it has a decent number of entries, and it finds many idiomatic expressions (this is particularly nice).
Cons: It is a somewhat amateurish conversion, it has trouble finding words from Kana (unless the word is commonly written in Kana). EDICT is free in other (non-Kindle)formats, so 9.99 does not look exactly cheap.

I think it would not work as the sole JP dictionary for a beginner, because of the Kana problems, but it was pretty useful for me (intermediate to advanced learner, so most stuff I'm trying to read is mostly in Kanji) because of the idiomatic expressions.

Well, in the end, I can say it was worth the 10 bucks for me.

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Japanese English Dictionary 14th Ed. (Japanese Edition) B00AKIUDAY Jean-Christian Imbeault Japanese English Dictionary 14th Ed. (Japanese Edition) Kindle Store Does work as a inline popup dictionary on the Kindle Paperwhite Tested on a Kindle Paperwhite. I could set it as the default Japanese dictionary, and it worked in the inline popup dictionary function.

Pros: Since it is based on EDICT it has a decent number of entries, and it finds many idiomatic expressions (this is particularly nice).
Cons: It is a somewhat amateurish conversion, it has trouble finding words from Kana (unless the word is commonly written in Kana). EDICT is free in other (non-Kindle)formats, so 9.99 does not look exactly cheap.

I think it would not work as the sole JP dictionary for a beginner, because of the Kana problems, but it was pretty useful for me (intermediate to advanced learner, so most stuff I'm trying to read is mostly in Kanji) because of the idiomatic expressions.

Well, in the end, I can say it was worth the 10 bucks for me. number28 August 11, 2013

Overall: 5

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Initial post: Aug 22, 2013 6:28:33 PM PDT

Jean-Christian Imbeault says:

Hi number28 and thank you for the kind review of my dictionary!

Your point about the issue with kana lookups is absolutely correct, I'd just like to point out that this is an issue with the Kindle - the Kindle programming interface just doesn't allow for easily indexing words in more than one way (kanji, kanji + kana, and kana only). The Kindle indexing software is built on the old MOBI format which very European-centric and never considered things such as non alphabet-based languages :(

The Kindle comes with a professional Japanese/Japanese dictionary, the 大辞泉 written by a professional publishing house and it has the same issues. (for example try looking up 先生 in the 大辞泉 dictionary)

That being said, this dictionary's main function is to lookup words in a text you are reading - which means that most words will not be written in kana alone and will be easily found by the dictionary. So you're right that it's best for intermediate to advanced readers of Japanese :)

Again, thank you for your review!

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