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This doesn't solve the general problem, but take a look at http://paralleltext.io/ , where you can read/listen to a book in a different language and click on the text to see a translation.

For my language choices I'm constrained to reading Anna Karenina as my material, haha, but I still consider this pretty good! Thanks for the tip.

Check out https://www.getflowlingo.com - you can upload any epub and get translations when necessary to help you practice with a book.

Disclosure: I'm one of the app developers. Let me know what you think :)

You can look up words on the Kindle. And if you highlight them there are ways to access the highlighted sentences in a machine-friendly way (to i.e. export them to Anki).