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Looking for an iOS reading app - yogert909 - 2014-10-06
I only have time to study on-the-go on my iphone. I've been doing core6k on anki mobile for a while and I'm wanting to get into reading a little when my reviews are done. I haven't finished RTK yet, so I'm only able to read with the help of furigana. With that said, does anyone know how I could get some reading practice on my phone?
Requirements:
iOS app
furigana
includes a dictionary, hotlinks or vocab list for unknown words.
preferably free or freemium so I can try it before buying.
ideally can load custom reading materials.
Looking for an iOS reading app - Katsuo - 2014-10-06
Wakaru is very good, and there's a free version you can try.
Looking for an iOS reading app - yogert909 - 2014-10-07
Katsuo Wrote:Wakaru is very good, and there's a free version you can try.Thanks Katsuo! I was looking at wakaru but I didn't notice it add furigana to the whole document, but on second look, maybe it does. I just downloaded it and I'll play around with it tomorrow.
Btw, I was just browsing your spreadsheet links. There's a lot of really great stuff there! The Japanese idioms and proverbs are especially interesting. Thanks for taking the time to collect everything!
Japanese Reader also looks interesting as it seems like it will add furigana to websites and features a dictionary.
Looking for an iOS reading app - Katsuo - 2014-10-07
Yes, I don’t think Wakaru generates furigana. It displays kana in a pop-up box but you need to swipe the word to see it.
Furigana can be displayed if the original document is in Aozora Format with special brackets like this: 連呼《れんこ》する.
Japanese Reader on the other hand will generate furigana, but is only for the web, i.e. you can’t load documents into it. I guess you could upload a document to the web then view it.
Looking for an iOS reading app - yogert909 - 2014-10-07
I was playing around with both of them last night and I think I'll end up using both of them heavily.
I'll probably buy wakaru pro for the offline dictionary. It'll be a little annoying to convert files to aozora format, but I can do a a few at a time and it's not like I read fast, so a short story will take me weeks to read.
Japanese reader seems cool. Presumably I could add text files to my dropbox and browse them from there. Worst case I'd have to convert to html.
Thanks for your suggestion. I actually ran into japanese reader while looking at wakaru, so you helped me find both of them.
Cheers!