Kindle - Mnemosyne

[Henrik in Oslo]

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?

2) easily take notes by copying parts of text to paste into Mnemosyne (or Notepad, Evernote or similar standard .txt document)?

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?

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....

[Gome]

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.

[Henrik in Oslo]

Thanks Gome, very useful tips!

Anybody else with experience Mnemosyne - Kindle or Mnemosyne scan/ OCR? 

/ Henrik