E-reader features
Emilie (Em)
Many of us use Lingq to read books and it would be nice to see further improvements to the reader such as:
- better embedding of pictures
- footnotes
- table of contents
- searching in the text
- being able to search through lesson notes
- enhanced formatting of titles
- further options for text alignment (e.g justify)
- scrolling mode
All the above are common basic features in most e-readers nowadays, so integrating them with Lingq would be fabulous.
Mitch Conquer
Even just respecting the formatting of the text. I haven’t used LingQ much over the past couple years, even though I pay for it and would like to.
The reason is because my target language is good enough to read books and some books are really hard to read in LingQ because all formatting (including italics, picture embedding, font sizes, even line breaks) are not respected.
The big one is dialog. Some languages and formats rely on italics or spacing to break up dialog and you just literally can’t tell who’s talking and it makes it impossible. It’s also really hard when captions from images and headings get merged into the text with no way to distinguish them.
I might be able to parse some of that in my native language but when I’m learning a language it feels like LingQ is making it harder, and putting barriers in the way to my success.
It’s a bummer because I love the stats from LingQ and was a big LingQ Stan but I just can’t really use it until I start to tackle a new language.
I really hope y’all can start to chip away at these.
M
Martin
* captions for the embedded pictures
* automatic embedding of pictures
* text editing in page view
* reduction of clicks necessary to perform actions, including but not restriced to anything involved with formatting