好きな日本語の小説の読む方法を調べてみた
Dec. 1st, 2022 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaI kind of neglected my Japanese for a bit there - it's easy to let it slip when you're traveling a lot - but I've been trying to get myself back on the horse again. Been watching videos again, almost caught up on my flashcards, and I've been getting back into reading. However, looking at the novel I have half-finished, there was one issue: Calibre is a decent ebook reader, except that it sucks for looking up Japanese vocab. There is no offline dictionary in the program, and of the online J-J ones I've tried, most can't deal with conjugations; the only one that can is unreadable in the Calibre panel. So I went looking to see if there was anything better.
After checking some recommendations, I came across ttsu, which is made for reading with Yomichan, where you can plug in whatever dictionary you want. Not always my favorite way to look up words, but the pop-up is convenient, and if I need J-E I can pop in with 10Ten. It's also fairly customizable in terms of what the reading area looks like, which is good. The only major issue is that it lacks highlighting/exporting, which I kind of need for any phrases I want to make into flashcards later without stopping to copy text all the time. (It also can't do native TTS, but I don't use that often enough for it to be a huge issue.)
But I was able to fix that with another browser addon; it can make highlights and then copy or delete all of the highlights on a page, which makes it perfect for me. Granted, deleting them seems to make the page refresh, so I need to make sure the reading progress is saved first, and if I leave the text and come back, the highlights are no longer visible, but they're still saved by the plugin. While it's not a perfect solution, I've been testing it with a short story, and so far it's an improved reading experience! Hopefully it will hold up over longer reading sessions.
After checking some recommendations, I came across ttsu, which is made for reading with Yomichan, where you can plug in whatever dictionary you want. Not always my favorite way to look up words, but the pop-up is convenient, and if I need J-E I can pop in with 10Ten. It's also fairly customizable in terms of what the reading area looks like, which is good. The only major issue is that it lacks highlighting/exporting, which I kind of need for any phrases I want to make into flashcards later without stopping to copy text all the time. (It also can't do native TTS, but I don't use that often enough for it to be a huge issue.)
But I was able to fix that with another browser addon; it can make highlights and then copy or delete all of the highlights on a page, which makes it perfect for me. Granted, deleting them seems to make the page refresh, so I need to make sure the reading progress is saved first, and if I leave the text and come back, the highlights are no longer visible, but they're still saved by the plugin. While it's not a perfect solution, I've been testing it with a short story, and so far it's an improved reading experience! Hopefully it will hold up over longer reading sessions.
