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Monday, May 28, 2012

New Toy



Margaret bought me a Kindle.  I got the Touch model because it allows setting your own default dictionary and retrieving definitions with a single touch.  I was three-quarters of the way through the paperback of Tolstoy's Anna Kerenina when I got it, so I bought the Kindle Spanish edition for 99 cents and finished the book that way.  Also picked up a Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary and installed it, and found that it works very well.  Yesterday, I started Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis by Blasco Ibáñez which I downloaded free from Project Gutenberg.

As illustrated above, the Kindle is also a pretty good platform for displaying and publishing photographs.  I'll have more to say about that once I've learned more about the process.
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2 comments:

  1. Julio FJune 3, 2012 at 5:22:00 PM MDT

    B&W pictures look reasonably well on the e-book display. Not a large silver print, but I can't do that anyway.

    Gutenberg project and automated dictionaries add a lot of value to e-readers.

    Glad to hear you are practicing your Spanish!

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  2. MikeJune 3, 2012 at 7:10:00 PM MDT

    I've only scratched the surface with this technology. I finished Los Quatro Jinetes and have moved on to La Barraca by the same author. It is more of a challenge because of the vocabulary derived from rural pre-republican Spain. I'm hoping I can keep at it because we have a friend who has conducted an oral history project over many years about the effects of the civil war on a small village near Barcelona.

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