As the title suggests, I am considering building a Japanese-learning-focused e-book reader.
This idea came to me as I recently started doing more of my learning by reading Japanese books. Despite my usual preference towards physical books, I ended up with e-books as it is a lot easier to search for any words I do not know.
I had been using Honto for a while and there is a few pain point I had identified throughout the period. I believe the other e-book sites share the same problem as I ended up with Honto because the reader is the best among them.
1. The e-book reader is made to be very difficult to just copy and paste to prevent content stealing, but that also makes looking up words more difficult.
2. Having the need to constantly look up the pronunciation of kanji is also very time-consuming
I was thinking about making an e-book reader that focuses on making those processes easy. Let me know what you guys think about this idea, would you guys use it, do you guys have other pain points that you might want to add on, also what kind of platform (PC or mobile) do you guys normally do all the reading on?
by tonyng97