Xenops wrote:Do comic books/ graphic novels count?
I would rather not include them. Not because I'm against them (far from it) but they cannot be compared with regular books in terms of word density per page.
Xenops wrote:Do comic books/ graphic novels count?
dedalus66 wrote:Never enough!
But seriously, I tend to find sourcing material one of the most difficult things as I really do not enjoy reading on a computer screen.
That's a good point.Le Baron wrote:I don't use an e-reader extensively, so I wonder what people think about the ease of looking up words with built-in dictionaries. I tend to feel that it makes things too easy at times. The necessity of building tolerance to skip over a few unknown things for the sake of reading momentum seems to me better than looking up every word and also forces you to work things out. Of course I'm not daft enough to think it can all be divined from context, but there has to be a little bit of puzzling whilst reading, rather than having the dictionary quickly solve the problem. Which to me is like like looking things up on Google when your memory fails, rather than giving your memory a workout.
DaveAgain wrote:At the moment I'm reading an eBook, and then listening to the same chapter as an audiobook. I sometimes understand things better with the audiobook than I did with the dictionary-supported eBook.
There is an easy way to turn web content into e-books that can be read on an e-ink reader. I know because I have learned some minority languages and less commonly studied languages: Catalan; Ladino'Djudeo-espanyol; Haitian Creole and Lesser Antilles French Creole. So, how can you do it?Le Baron wrote:Yes, I'm not a great fan of reading from a screen. The e-ink screens are better, but I actually like paper books. Finding books in FIGS languages in the shops (lots of second-hand examples) is not difficult here. Finding stuff in e.g. Swahili is not so easy, so it has to be the screen stuff and that hinders me a little.
Le Baron wrote:I don't use an e-reader extensively, so I wonder what people think about the ease of looking up words with built-in dictionaries. I tend to feel that it makes things too easy at times. The necessity of building tolerance to skip over a few unknown things for the sake of reading momentum seems to me better than looking up every word and also forces you to work things out. Of course I'm not daft enough to think it can all be divined from context, but there has to be a little bit of puzzling whilst reading, rather than having the dictionary quickly solve the problem. Which to me is like like looking things up on Google when your memory fails, rather than giving your memory a workout.
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