11-26-2012, 08:44 AM | #16 | |
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Hmm, totally makes sense! So do Japanese firstgraders learn Western script along with Kana and Kanji? Do really old people know Romaji as well? |
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11-27-2012, 02:36 AM | #17 |
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Oh, sure, Roman characters have been part of elementary school education in Japan since at least the 1950s.
They even moved it up a year in 2010 from 4th to 3rd grade, specifically to make it easier for kids to use computers and mobile devices and such. |
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11-27-2012, 08:22 AM | #18 |
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Very enlightning thread - thanks for the into
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01-22-2013, 12:36 PM | #19 |
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See also https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=2392375
Price $90... but what about shipping... |
01-23-2013, 04:02 AM | #20 |
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@Snorkledorf how did you do a screen capture when the keyboard is on? I've tried, but the keyboard would disappear as soon as I pressed the Home key. Thanks.
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01-24-2013, 08:43 PM | #21 |
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Home key? We don't need no stinkin' Home key!
Since the Paperwhite is lacking handy things like...er...buttons of any sort, they set it up so you have to simultaneously tap the upper-right and lower-left corners of the screen to take a screenshot, so that's what I did. Getting the screenshot to take before it dismissed the expanded conversions panel was tough, but having the regular keyboard displayed was no problem. BTW, I've now got the Paperwhite jailbreak, screen saver hack, easy-peasy font "hack," and the Collections Manager hack-oid running on this device, so it looks to be perfectly compatible with non-Japanese customizations too. It really appears to just be exactly the same machine; this is so rare in Japan that I'm still befuddled by it. |
01-25-2013, 01:21 AM | #22 |
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Assuming I don't get a crap version with lighting problems, is this really worth it to upgrade from a kindle 3 aka kindle keyboard?
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01-25-2013, 04:51 AM | #23 |
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Here are a few thoughts. Probably not comprehensive.
Cons:
Pros:
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01-25-2013, 08:33 AM | #24 |
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Another Pro for me:
Time to read: shows in the left hand bottom corner, and by touching it, you can change between seeing %left in book, time left in chapter, time left in book. It's the most useful feature that I would no longer want to miss!! |
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