{"id":6812,"date":"2009-12-04T23:55:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2009-12-04T23:55:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:55:05","slug":"japanese-classics-for-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/japanese-classics-for-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Classics For Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5532\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/amazon-japan-logo.png\" alt=\"amazon-japan-logo\" width=\"166\" height=\"44\" \/><br \/>\nAmazon has recently announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation\/dp\/B0015T963C\">Global Wireless Kindle<\/a>. However, as English only books are sold from Amazon.com, most Japanese couldn&#8217;t find the product very appealing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/takayama\">Takayama Kyosuke<\/a> just released a web based tool which translates books from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aozora.gr.jp\/\">Aozora Project<\/a> (Japanese equivalent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Gutenberg Project<\/a>) to Kindle supported PDF format.<br \/>\nTo get your favorite Japanese classic on your Kindle, all you need to do is find it on Aozora and provide the Zipped file link to the form on the <a href=\"http:\/\/a2k.aill.org\/\">A2K page<\/a> (Aozora to Kindle).<br \/>\nFor example, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natsume_S%C5%8Dseki\">Natsume Soseki<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ten_Nights_of_Dreams\">Ten nights of Dreams<\/a> is available at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aozora.gr.jp\/cards\/000148\/card799.html\">link<\/a>. Copy the Link of the Zip file marked below.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6815\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Aozora-400x162.jpg\" alt=\"Aozora Ten Nights of Dreams \" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/a2k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6817\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/a2k-400x147.jpg\" alt=\"a2k\" width=\"400\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nExample above shows A2k Page with link filled, click the &#8220;PDF it&#8221; button, and there you have it, in PDF Format (including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Furigana\">Furigana<\/a>):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yume_juya_page_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6819\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yume_juya_page_1-400x374.jpg\" alt=\"yume_juya_page_1\" width=\"400\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn Kindle it even looks better:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2486\/4158010448_7ab9b8b59b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2486\/4158010448_7ab9b8b59b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2645\/4158015506_b5720d7f7a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2645\/4158015506_b5720d7f7a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has recently announced their Global Wireless Kindle. However, as English only books are sold from Amazon.com, most Japanese couldn&#8217;t find the product very appealing. Takayama Kyosuke just released a web based tool which translates books from Aozora Project (Japanese equivalent to Gutenberg Project) to Kindle supported PDF format. To get your favorite Japanese classic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/japanese-classics-for-kindle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Classics For Kindle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[195,257,757,1977,2654],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-amazon","tag-aozora-bunko","tag-copyright","tag-kindle","tag-novel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}