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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 another word.
Like this "俺は呟つぶやき、どういうわけだか俺は鳴ってもいない携帯けいたい電話を..." Where 呟つぶやき and 携帯けいたい are not ok. Furigana probably makes little sense when you have the integrated dictionary thing, but it's confusing if it appears like that (right after the kanji). I don't lnow if there is something wrong with my files or something, though.

Another thing is that the only way I can go to the next page is by the icon located at the end of all the text in one page. I've noticed there is a section of navigation prefferences in the settings, but I cant change them (all the options are unavailable, in a light grey font, only in this section). I'm using a Galaxy Tab 2.

And here is a question, Can I change the Anki card type and the deck where the cards are added? or will it mess something?

I'll look into the furigana problem. In the meantime, I believe you can strip them out with calibre if you want to continue reading normally.

For the navigation, it's normal, if you activate the lookup it has to be that way. Indeed the lookup is designed to work with scrolling. The reason for that is that when you use a page strategy, the control are made by tapping the borders of the screen and that conflicts with the dictionary lookup tap.

Now we can argue that I could change that to a swipe left and right but I didn't do that because I think that anyway it does not really fit the dictionary lookup UI. Indeed, the dictionary pane always occupies the bottom of the screen so to read the bottom of the page, you would have to close it every time you have to search a word.

Now what I believe is missing is a "next/previous chapter" control to skip the whole chapter without having to scroll down. But you can also do that in a less user-friendly way by browsing the table of content.
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RE: Typhon: eBook reader with Rikai dictionary lookup for Android - by ZorgBlub - 2016-04-27, 9:35 am