Looks great! I'd like to try it but the play store link has this error: > We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.
A few people have raised this. I'll take a look. Unfortunately the App isn't available in all locations.
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#42Love the idea; can I kindly ask if you're expanding to include German?
I actually built 'Tembo - Bilingual Stories' while learning German myself, so hate to plug it on this thread, but we've got lots of German content, maybe you'll find something that interests you?
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#43Oh great timing! I was just starting to play with building a toy project (https://github.com/bpevs/multireader) for practicing Spanish while reading books with my e-reader, but frankly, I'm just building it because I haven't found an app that works for me, and I'd rather spend time actually actually learning language...
Just playing with your app for a bit, and it's pretty cool! had a few questions though:
1. Wondering about the decision of using English books and translating pieces into other languages vs starting with (for example) a Spanish book, and translating the other way? Also, would something like this be a future thought of plan? Because currently I'm trying to read more popular books in my target language, rather than English books (right now, my toy app is just highlight arbitrary text -> send to azure translate). I tried to upload my book into your app in Spanish, but I guess it only works rn if the source is in English? Basically, a mode for even more immersion would be killer (Ala either full-target-languge mode or upload target language books).
2. The practice mode is pretty cool! I like this format of "complete the sentence". It looks like it's not based on book content at all, right? Would be cool to practice based on what I'm reading.
3. I'm reading on an e-reader, so I'd reeeeally like a no-animation/no-scroll mode. On an e-reader, the paginated page refreshing can help to reduce ghosting. Even better if there could be an e-reader mode that can flash the screen to further reduce ghosting issues on those devices.
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#44Wasn’t this idea an ACX post? I am absolutely sure Scott wrote that someone should create this.
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#45Bummer, it’s not available in my country.
Not in my App Store, too. I wonder why not release it worldwide?
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#46I hate browser plugins - but this needs to be a browser plugin. Then I would use it while reading HN. ;-) I would suggest tackling dynamic difficulty and algorithmic selection of what words to learn, when, and how often, and then let improving LLMs handle accuracy improvements.
That would be amazing, not everyone reads eBooks (whether because they don't read books, or just prefer physical) but everyone whose a potential user anyway does browse websites.
Also because while I absolutely love the idea for seamless Hinglish style integration (as opposed to say a side bar which just told you what some words would be in a different language) it does mean that I'm no longer really reading the book, I'm reading the content but not the author. I don't personally read anything that I'd want to alter like that, but I can imagine for others it might limit its use to 'trashy novella read while travelling' or something.
Tldr the idea is brilliant, but for me too it needs to not be for eBooks.
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#47It only works with iOS 17.0+
Could you make it work with any versions lower than 17.0?
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#48I hate browser plugins - but this needs to be a browser plugin. Then I would use it while reading HN. ;-) I would suggest tackling dynamic difficulty and algorithmic selection of what words to learn, when, and how often, and then let improving LLMs handle accuracy improvements.
AFAIK, I think the most popular version of this idea is https://readlang.com
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#49I definitely don't want to learn another language by reading English. I've seen comments about people who learnt a language using Google translate from English, and they end up sounding like Google translate.
I prefer to learn by reading in the target language and translating to English as I go along.
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#50Can you clarify what the “upload” ability does? Is it putting my epub on your server? Does it remain there?