I have been sentence mining for awhile now by buying Japanese novels, typing in the sentences, running it through a jpdb type application that I made, and studying the words and sentences before I read the chapter.
This is obviously time consuming but I find it is the best way for me to learn at my current stage.
Does anyone know of a good way to get the text for books that I own so that I wouldn’t need to type them out? I wouldn’t mind buying the kindle version if that can be converted but I haven’t been able to figure that out.
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you can usually find pdfs of books online if you search around on torrent sites and such, it’d obviously be up to you to only download things that you purchased
you should be able to take a picture of it and copy the text from the picture with an iphone. Pretty sure its been on android for a while too.
Actually, you can directly search and copy sentences from the official kindle app.
The issue is that they add the book title and author to your clipboard. If that is annoying, you can convert the awz ebook to epub format. Here’s a [guide](https://game2text.com/resources/ln-mining/) I wrote a while ago.
Google Translate and the DeepL app both have good OCR, so you could point that at the physical book and have it transcribe + translate the page for you.