The Kindle, a beloved companion for global travelers, seems ideal for language translation. Unfortunately, Google Translate, with its 50+ language translation powers, doesn’t work on the Kindle. Enter the Kindlefish web app, which turns the Kindle into a near-universal language translater.
Photo by SeattleFlyerGuy
Developed by road warrior SeattleFlyerGuy (a “travel and mileage nut”), Kindlfish enables users to tap into Google Translate via the URL http://kindlefish.t15.org. Kindlefish was designed to eliminate mobile Google Translate’s clunkiness, offers three default output languages you can save, and provides easy-to-read translated text (even Asian languages and others with non-Latin alphabets).
The Kindle browser, however, is notoriously slow and Kindlefish can also be susceptible to accuracy issues related to Google Translate and poor support for non-English input on the Kindle. The Kindle DX may also have a particular issue, although there’s a workaround that the developer created just for DX users.
Those obstacles aside, if you travel a lot with your Kindle or ever wished you could use Google Translate from it, this web app is for you.
Kindlefish [via No Muss Translations for the Amazon Kindle (SeattleFlyerGuy) via Wired]
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