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?
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I wouldn’t go overboard with the copy-paste prevention. Simply limiting the text selection to the current page should be enough.
Because from a technical standpoint, as soon as you’re outputting the data, it can be copied no matter what. So there’s no point, anyway.
Something like [Manabi Reader](https://reader.manabi.io)?
I just use ttsu reader with yomichan and it’s basically perfect for both mobile (kiwi browser) and desktop
yes this is a great idea!!! could it also be in levels like gradually introducing more complex vocabulary and repeating the previously learned vocabulary???