I was wondering if you might think about supporting parallel texts, which is a way that some learners like to read their books.

I should say that I'm not really thinking of an actual parallel-ised version of a book (although that might be another option), but when you have, say, an e-book in your target language, and a translation of it into your native language as another e-book.

I think with suitable "screen gymnastics" it's probably possible to read a book in parallel already with something like Calibre, but it would be great if there were a tool specifically designed to make this easier.

i.e. display the pages of the book side by side, and advance them together (allowing the user to optionally adjust, because it would be pretty hard to always make sure they were in sync automatically.

If it helps, I could probably let you have some e-books I have in more than one language, for testing the idea.

Users could still click on the target language words to translate them and have them saved for learning or reference, but also have the English meaning (in context) on the other side to refer to, for cases where it wasn't 100% clear, etc.

It might also be good to be able to hide the native language version (or the target language version), at will, if one only wanted to concentrate on the target language for a while (or alternatively, to read a passage thoroughly in the native language without distraction for a while, then go back and read it in the target language, or variations on that theme).

Regards,
Mike

I recently had to allow my subscription to Readlang to expire, but I wanted to let you know that it isn't due to any problem with the service.

Unfortunately I'm suffering a condition that doctors cannot figure out which causes incredible fatigue and insomnia. This has made language learning very difficult. Then the medication I was prescribed a few months ago has actually made it worse to the point that I cannot do any language learning activities. After the period on the medication has run its course and probably failed to produce results, I will hopefully be able to return to language learning and Readlang.

Readlang is excellent! It is so useful to be able to launch it anywhere online and quickly understand the words I don't know or sentences or idioms that don't make total sense. The aesthetic quality of the service is nice too. You have a good eye for clean attractive design.

I will resume when possible. Thank you!

When using Chrome Readlang extension there is a problem, which I guess won't be difficult to solve. You cannot (or maybe I cannot) translate a fragment of a text that has two different styles of formatting within it. If something is a link or a bold text (or anything that needs using a separate html tag) you can only translate it separately (from the rest of the phrase). It's quite annoying, when using some dictionary examples (with described term always in bold) or articles that use a lot of links. The (ordinal?) number of the word is right, so I guess a half of work is done.

I tried selecting words seprately and then together and it sometimes works, but today I got a very strange outcome - after a few unsuccessful translations one of the word in bold simply dissappeared (both value of data-original and content of <div class="original"> are now one word instead of two like in the original source). I guess it might be not very easy to replicate - I think the first problem is more important.

(I couldn't find aby previous suggestions to fix it by normal search. So I am sorry if it is a duplicate.)