Hi all,

How do people on the list read Kindle content on the computers, or how 
do you do it on your Kindle devices? I'm especially interested in 
knowing how you look things up in reference books like dictionaries and 
manuals.

In one of my other lives, I'm a translator, so I use dictionaries a lot 
and I do a lot of selective reading and skimming of other types of 
materials. While following a thread on another list, it finally occurred 
to me that I could get bilingual dictionaries and specialized glossaries 
as well as other goodies through Kindle. Someone on that list posted 
thorough instructions on how to remove the DRM and convert the files to 
other formats. Initially, I tried being a good girl and attempted to use 
the Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin, but that's not at all right 
for my use case, so I removed some DRM's and started playing with Stanza.

I've converted two very large dictionary files (two thousand pages each) 
into doc files. Word is incredibly sluggish, taking about ten minutes to 
adjust to having the file open. This is obviously not ideal, so I plan 
to break the file up into segments of 50 to 100 pages.

As I was thinking about what other things I could do to make using these 
files more realistic, I decided to post here to find out what others of 
you do. A sighted friend of mine has a Kindle Keyboard, and from the 
little playing I've done with it, I gather it's fine for reading, but 
probably not practical for dictionary searches and other types of text 
searches, but I'm not sure, so I've come to the experts.

Anyone on list a power user of Kindle files?

Ciao


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