Hoshi Reader
Manh-Hao Steffen Pham · Books
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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
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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
What's new · 1.4.0
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
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