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Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

#11
This is super cool, thank you for building it! Two small UX ideas:

- a scrollbar and search for the Online Library would be helpful

- switching difficulty levels in the middle of reading could be helpful. Or if you keep that on a separate page, returning automatically to the last open position. (I was floating between beginner levels to find the right amount of challenge)

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

#12
This looks really cool. I’d have loved to give it a try as someone interested in improving my French, but I wasn’t able to download the app since it’s pinned to the latest version of iOS only.

Are you using APIs that are unavailable on iOS 16 and under, or is it a matter of testing? My understanding was that about 25% of iPhone users aren’t on iOS 17 (myself included!) so it’s a fairly large demographic

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

#15
> Other apps require you to build a habit around various exercises or ‘games’, whereas lots of people already read books.

Shameless plug: I’ve identified the same problem and built an app that shows a new word every minute on the Menu Bar so I can learn a new word while working: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wunderbar-learn-language/id647...

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

#16
Thanks for building and sharing this! As a feature request, which would likely be the decider for me using this, would you please consider an integration into koreader? As far as I know, koreader is the #1 open source app for ereaders. If anyone using their ereader can use this, you can expand your userbase outside of those who just read on mobile. I don't think I'm alone in never wanting to read an actual book with my phone. At any rate, best of luck and great work getting this shipped!

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

#17

This looks really cool. I’d have loved to give it a try as someone interested in improving my French, but I wasn’t able to download the app since it’s pinned to the latest version of iOS only. Are you using APIs that are unavailable on iOS 16 and under, or is it a matter of testing? My understanding was that about 25% of iPhone users aren’t on iOS 17 (myself included!) so it’s a fairly large demographic

Obviously, I do not know about this app, but as an iOS developer, my apps are pinned to iOS 17 as well. SwiftUI is way too infant to not have the latest features at your disposal, in fact, I'd describe it as 'unusable' before iOS 16.

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

#19

I'd use this if it had a book I wanted to read. A while back, I tried Prismatext ( https://prismatext.com/ ). It only offered old classics that had come out of copyright (ie, Project Gutenberg) and a handful of poorly-reviewed modern novels. If you can license a modern book that someone would actually choose to read on their own, I'd pay for it. Bonus if I can sort/browse the available books by Goodreads (or similar)…

Thanks for the feedback. One of the features allows users to upload an epub to use in the app. Although I realise that a better method is needed, as it has become harder to find legitimate places to buy epub formatted books.

Do you require the epub to be drm stripped first?
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