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When I tested using AI in this way, I didn't realize just how much it would accelerate my understanding. It has really done wonders. Sometimes it makes me more confident in something I was kind of picking up on; sometimes it cues me in to nuances that were flying completely over my head. Flashcards that have you output the target word are more effective than those where you just recognize the word, but the problem is how to put a native cue on the front that singles that word out? If you go read bilingual dictionaries, their lazy definitions will conflate countless terms. But by the time you can read a monolingual dictionary fluently, you probably don't need help. So this solves that problem, and fills a niche nothing else currently does. So part of what I do is prompt the AI to find fifteen potential synonyms, and then generate fifteen potential definitions of the target word and for all of those synonyms. Now, if a definition shows up for the target word and a synonym, strike it off the original list. For example, if esperar in Spanish can be translated as "to wait," but aguardar can also sometimes be translated "to wait," then it will not give me "to wait" as a definition of esperar. What we're left with will necessarily be a definition that captures the unique nuance of esperar in contrast to other words that can be translated similarly. After providing this definition, I have it write a paragraph explicitly contrasting the word with each synonym. So for esperar we may get the concise definition, "to wait or expect with anticipation;" then it will explain something like, "aguardar emphasizes patience in waiting, lacking esperar's anticipation." This ends up being very efficient, because I gain a deeper understanding of several words in the process of looking up one!

Function: -pause -back -forward -repeat original text significantly improves narrator, making use more comfortable, useful and enjoyable

I'd like to save some phrases or paragraphs to re-read in the future, further investigate about it, etc. This is a basic feature that almost every other book reading app has and I think I'd benefit greatly its overall user experience

Sometimes I also want to improve the original text, e.g. I download subtitles from YouTube that are not broken into sentences, there are only words but no punctuation marks. I would correct this while reading.

When I add a new fonts for both my native language and the language I want to learn ... change background and text colors ... i wish I can save these as a unique theme... adding a name to it and if it's for day or night ... then make it active ... this way i can add different themes and use any of them easily without having to change the colors, fonts, separately each time i want to try something new and I can't go back to how it was before easily also it would be very very nice to share themes with my friends via a link and if you made a page in your website for people to share there's, gathering spot where we can all swap cool designs, get inspired, and make our reading experiences even more enjoyable! Thanks!

Is it a way to redesign as to translate an entire paragraph not with a button, but with a gesture. For example, swiping across the text to the right - translating this paragraph, swiping to the left - pronouncing the paragraph.

Advantages: We immediately receive a finished deck, ready to transfer to other devices, send to someone or put in the repository. There is no need to first send the data to Anki, then export it to .apkg and then have a transportable file. Many users use SmartBook on a tablet, and Anki on a smartphone because using SmartBook on a phone is not convenient, the screen is too small, but for learning and memorizing a phone is more convenient, since it’s always at hand (and the vertical screen format is more suitable). This means that not everyone has Anki on their tablet and SmartBook on their phone. This process does not present any inconveniences (SmartBook -> .apkg -> Anki) since Anki users are more advanced and export to Anki does not happen often (as soon as new words accumulated in the dictionary). Anki has an effective mechanism for processing duplicates and cards moving from deck to deck, so users can handle it by themselves. In .apkg you can put anything you want, icons, any other media, etc.

ONLY FOR SUBSCRIPTION OWNERS. The ability to switch to another application and a pronunciation does not stop. At the same time, a media player will appear in the notifications panel, in which it will be possible to do A pause A rewinding Return to the application to the place of a pronunciation Repeat a pronunciation

Currently, Smart Book isn’t optimal for any language that lacks spaces. The problem is, without spaces the pop-up dictionary has no way to tell where words begin and end. There are tons of great tools out now for parsing these languages—but they would need to be implemented. I’ll discuss Japanese since that’s the language I know more about, but I’m happy for anyone who knows more about another spaceless language to chime in. Japanese is made of kanji (elaborate symbols that look like this, borrowed from Chinese: 蒜肥留) which are used for nouns and verbs, but we don’t know how they sound by looking at them. They’re read depending on what word they appear in. In addition to kanji, Japanese has two different syllabaries that look like this ひいよ and this ケムラ which are used for foreign loan words, for conjugations of verbs, as particles to mark grammatical functions, and more. These don’t represent ideas like kanji do, they represent sounds: usually a pairing of one consonant with one vowel sound. So ひ is the sound or syllable “hee” and の is “no.” の can be a particle indicating possession, so if 私 means me and 本 means book, 私の本 is “my book.” But at the end of a sentence it only adds an emotional tone to the sentence. And it can appear in words spelled fully in hiragana as well. Without a parser, the dictionary has no clue if it is or isn’t part of a word, conjugation, etc. If it appears in a word, the pop-up dictionary will treat it as if it were by itself and say it indicates possession. The dictionary isn’t so bad with kanji. So I suspect it might not be so bad for Chinese, where everything consist of hanzi and only hanzi. I’d love for a Chinese reader to chime in on this. But it’s almost useless with the hiragana (ひいよ) and katakana (ケムラ), and this makes it impossible to meaningfully parse sentences in Japanese. You can’t learn conjugations on the fly by reading Japanese like you can with Spanish, for example, because you can’t tell where the conjugation actually begins or ends. This is not a problem for an advanced reader of Japanese, but it’s an impossible hurdle for the beginner. Japanese readers mostly rely on other tools to read, but there isn’t any one particular reader that dominates, and I believe Smart Book could take over the market without much effort. If Kurs is interested in promoting Smart Book to Japanese learners, I would especially recommend talking to the owner of JPBD, another one man passion project and possibly the best single resource for Japanese. JPBD is an online dictionary that shows word frequency information and allows the user to create flashcard decks directly from the dictionary entry page. If Smart Book were to be implemented together with JPBD, this could make it the most powerful tool for reading in Japanese by far.