Yesterday I was searching for one thing:
Children's eBooks written in Simplified Chinese that I can look up words for pronunciation and meaning.
Spoiler Alert (solution): My solution was to deregister my Macbook Kindle from my amazon.com account and register it to my amazon.cn account (note, at first I used the same email for both accounts, and when I deregistered and tried to register the other account, the amazon.com account took priority - the Fix - was to change my amazon.cn accounts email address...then it worked great). Also, in the kindle app I downloaded the "A Modern Chinese-English Dictionary".
Sadness Alert (problem): In the end the device I decided to use to read my Chinese books couldn't also have my Amazon.com English books...ideally I could have had all my books together. Maybe you reader knows of a solution?
So ya, I was kind of specific. I wanted these books because I want to teach myself to read Chinese (I can speak some already). Naturally it will be easier to read and understand a children's book.
Well I'm not going to tell you everything I did - but I will say for my project it was a waste of time to try to find websites that sold eBooks or gave them away. I never found a good children's book selection, or if it was good then the site was in Chinese and awkward to work with, or the site tried to push it's own software for reading their books. Plus, .pdf, or any image file is useless as it can't be translated.
It sounds simple enough...but it took me many hours to finally get to a solution that was acceptable. I hope this saves someone a bit of that time.
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Key Words: Chinese Children's books, Chinese eBooks, Learning to read Chinese, Simplified Chinese stories.
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