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    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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OK good to know, I will try and reproduce the bug otherwise it will have to wait until someone gets it. Apart from that I have a new release ready for the immersive mode and the removal of the select...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-22, 11:49 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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Few things I would try to recover the deck: - check if ankidroid is up to date; - use the "check databse" of ankidroid; - try synchronizing the deck on anki desktop and if necessary do a check db the...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-19, 2:58 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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(2016-05-14, 5:44 am)ilovekazehikaru Wrote: Typhon runs super smoothly on my tablet (Android 4.4) but painfully slow on my phone (Android 5.02). Somehow AnkiDroid on my phone does not recognize Ank...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-15, 11:13 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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(2016-05-10, 1:14 am)MarseSnorty Wrote: There's like one and a half things stopping me from switching from Play Books to this, vertical rtl text support and the app not going into immersive mode, or...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-15, 11:11 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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aw… too bad! I just made some general optimizations for the overall app. I saw some improvements on my tablet but I guess I won't get out of this one so easily :p Anyway, I'll have a look to see how...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-09, 10:32 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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Again, new version to quickly address the last concerns : - Furigana are now stripped from the text; - The anki deck name is now configurable in the settings. These are just quick fix for the two pro...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-08, 11:41 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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I uploaded a new version for the navigation gestures. You can now swipe left and right to change chapters or use the volume button to do so. Everything is configurable in the settings and there is a...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-04, 10:34 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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I published a new version of the application. It adds three different open source Japanese fonts to address AzureBlue's problem. I found them on http://www.freejapanesefont.com/tag/open-type/. We ca...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-05-03, 10:18 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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(2016-04-26, 1:30 pm)AzureBlue Wrote: This is great! I have been looking for exactly something like this for a long time. The only usability problem for me is that my phone doesn't support Japanese...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-27, 11:05 am
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(2016-04-25, 11:20 am)creamyhorror Wrote: (2016-04-20, 10:22 am)ZorgBlub Wrote: Thanks for the feedback! For the load time, I have already noticed long load times though not to that level and ver...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-27, 9:39 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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(2016-04-23, 4:17 am)ToumeiNingen Wrote: I already like this app a lot. But I'm having some issues. All of the EPUBs I have, have some furigana and it's showing right after the kanji as if it where...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-27, 9:35 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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(2016-04-20, 7:17 am)creamyhorror Wrote: Hey ZorgBlub, I'm really liking what you've done here, thanks a bunch! Typhon does almost exactly what I want for mobile reading - dictionary lookup and Anki...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-20, 10:22 am
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(2016-04-13, 1:44 am)risu_ Wrote: Any chances of releasing a version with vertical text? I looked into it a little bit and for now I don't see an obvious solution. But if that is a popular demand I...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-15, 10:58 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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I just closed the beta and pushed a new version to the Play Store. It is not very different from the one that was available in beta but the EPWING dictionary now has gaiji support (those characters t...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-11, 8:03 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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Here we go, the new version with EPWING support is on the beta channel. I published the first version in production already but I expect to be able to put this one very soon. To use the EPWING featur...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-04, 7:08 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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I am happy you like it! Without your project, I would probably never made this. So thank you for having it published open source.  I basically started by just hacking Jade reader to add Kanjidic. Then...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-04-01, 1:44 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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I published a new Alpha version in closed testing. This means that the people who already downloaded the beta can normally see the update but if you want to install the alpha from scratch shoot me an ...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-03-31, 7:39 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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I actually made a test with EPWING with my Kenkyusha wadai5: [Image: http://i64.tinypic.com/2ym8wno.png] I am still not sure if that is going to do the trick for all types of dictionary though. And ...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-03-20, 3:11 pm
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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Thanks! I have looked into EPWING as a began this project but it seemed like a headache because not only the format is poorly documented but it is also mainly abandoned for what I saw.   But I will ...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-03-20, 9:32 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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There is no support for Google drive for now, you need to have the ePub files on your storage. For now, I just focused on adding the dictionary feature to PageTurner so I have not modified the reader ...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-03-19, 11:41 am
    Thread: Japanese and E-book readers: A guide
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I just saw this thread, I should probably have posted here, but here is a solution I have been working on for Android: Typhon thread to read ePub and has an evolution of JadeReader dictionary lookup.
ZorgBlub Learning resources 57 50,895 2016-03-19, 8:26 am
    Thread: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android
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This is a project that I have been sitting on for a long time. I initially wrote it for myself with no intention on publishing it but then I thought it would be nice to share. The original idea comes...
ZorgBlub Learning resources 39 4,443 2016-03-18, 4:20 pm