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Re:Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a lang... by troydavis on Sunday March 24, 2024 @12:25PM (#39808168)
I'd use this if it had a book I wanted to read. A while back, I tried Prismatext (https://prismatext.com/). It only offered old classics that had come out of copyright (ie, Project Gutenberg) and a handful of poorly-reviewed modern novels.

If you can license a modern book that someone would actually choose to read on their own, I'd pay for it. Bonus if I can sort/browse the available books by Goodreads (or similar) score. Prismatext makes it tedious to discover that readers didn't care for their modern books.

Re:Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a lang... by jonathanb88 on Sunday March 24, 2024 @12:53PM (#39808370)
Thanks for the feedback. One of the features allows users to upload an epub to use in the app. Although I realise that a better method is needed, as it has become harder to find legitimate places to buy epub formatted books.
Re:Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a lang... by troydavis on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:22PM (#39809547)
You're welcome for the feedback. I saw the epub import and thought it was novel, but as you said, I don't know of anywhere to buy modern fiction in epub. If you know of legal sellers and linked to them from the site, that would probably be enough for me as a customer.

That said, I'd gladly pay you/the site to handle that for me (by paying more than the book's retail price). Hopefully the translation would also be better than anything I imported.

(Two sibling replies linked to sites that sell technical non-fiction. That is a very hard way to learn :-) )

Re:Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a lang... by throwaway81523 on Sunday March 24, 2024 @01:34PM (#39808732)
I've bought a few epubs (English only) from https://www.humblebundle.com/books and https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/books . I'm still skeptical of this proposition though: to learn a language by listening to a TTS? Better to go talk to people. The language starts to solidify after the sounds and non-verbal cues start matching up.
Re:Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a lang... by mdaniel on Sunday March 24, 2024 @01:31PM (#39808693)
Do you require the epub to be drm stripped first?
Re:Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a lang... by jonathanb88 on Sunday March 24, 2024 @02:38PM (#39809198)
The app doesn't do anything to remove DRM, so it'll only work with DRM-free files.