Hoshi Reader is a lightweight Japanese EPUB reader with a built-in pop-up dictionary and Anki mining support, made for immersion learning.
Main Features:
- Vertical (縦書き) and horizontal (横書き) reading modes
- Yomitan-like pop-up dictionary with proper deinflection support
- Support for all Yomitan term, frequency and pitch dictionaries
- Dictionary audio support
- AnkiMobile mining support
- Fully configurable Anki card format, with most handlebars targeting Lapis implemented
- Sasayaki (Audiobooks): Sync audiobooks to book text to read along
- Reading statistics
- ッツ Reader sync
- Bookshelves to organize your library
- Customizable theme, font and layout
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Statistics:
- Added a new statistics tab
- See an overview of your reading time or set a daily goal and build up a streak
- Book statistics can be edited from the overview at the bottom
- Statistics are archived when a book is deleted and still count towards statistics unless manually deleted
- Daily reset time can be configured
Sasayaki:
- New control bar for playback, which can be placed on the right or left side
- On new matches, playback can now pause on images for a configurable amount of time
- Increased speed and delay ranges
- Fixed issues with matching and auto scroll
Dictionary and Anki:
- Added support for kanji dictionaries
- Added support for more pitch accent dictionaries
- Added the option to create more than one card format
- Added a button to search for the card in the card browser
- Added the ability to categorize dictionaries into bilingual or monolingual and mine those into dedicated handlebars
- You can choose a specific frequency dictionary to sort entries by now
- In the dictionary tab, the entire search text is now shown so you can quickly look up a different part of e.g. a sentence
- Long pressing the speaker icon now enables you to choose the audio source
- Handlebars can also work in the tags field now
General:
- Added a gallery overview to quickly scroll through the images of a book
- Chapters, highlights and gallery are now grouped into a new "Contents" option to reduce clutter
- Added book search to find text in a book
- Added the option to show separate chapter progress
- Fixed the chapter overview for some books and fixed related chapter finish time calculation
- Furigana can now be set to toggle and dimmed in addition to hide option
- Book covers in the library can be blurred or hidden entirely now
- Highlights now keep their furigana
- Newly imported dictionaries can now be up to 50% smaller
- Fixed an issue where text couldn't be selected in some cases
- Fixed several crashes and issues, and improved general performance and stability
Version 1.4.0
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