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Typhon is what I've started using recently. I think it's based on jade reader (or at least inspired by it) so it probably works similarly.

I haven't had any issues with bookmarks or anything disappearing, so it might be worth a try.

Please don't use OCR, there's no reason to when you can preserve the text perfectly.

• Convert the Kindle book ==> ePub or HTML with Calibre (you'll also need a de-DRM plugin).
• Then read the ePub on your Android phone with Typhon for dictionary lookup and export to Ankidroid. Or on your computer with Yomichan/Rikaisama.
• You may need to remove the furigana in the process (using a regex in Calibre), because Calibre doesn't seem to handle furigana properly. It's one drawback of the process, though I haven't found it to be a big problem since there is tap-lookup.

Overall it works great. I rarely have to do more than tap on words to learn them.

Looks useful! A good complement to the invaluable Typhon (Japanese EPUB ebook reader with dictionary lookup and add-to-Ankidroid), a tool that any serious reader should look into.

I do pretty much what you do on the rare times I read on PC, but I mostly read on my Android smartphone. Reading on mobile is a lot more convenient than reading on PC.

The very handy and free Typhon ebook reader is available for Android. I get Kindle ebooks from Amazon Japan (needs a VPN if you're outside Japan), convert them to ePub using Calibre, and copy them to my phone to read. Typhon offers Rikai-style tap lookup and even exports words to Ankidroid with the source sentence, so it's a nicely closed loop.

For Android, check out Typhon:

• Info: http://forum.koohii.com/thread-13644.html
• App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zorgblub.typhon&hl=en

Tap on words to look up their definitions. Typhon works like other reader apps in that you have to load ebooks (EPUB format) into it yourself, but it has two powerful features that few other reader apps do:

• Directly export definitions to Ankidroid to create Anki cards. It even lets you export the context sentence from the ebook to the card.
• Use EPWING dictionaries to do lookup, if you have any of those.

It's quite a new app so there are small speed and UI imperfections, but it's really useful for Ankidroid users who want to read ebooks and create Anki cards from them.

Aedict3 + AnkiDroid works for me. AFAIK there is no setting up necessary, just install both apps and Aedict can export to Anki out of the box.

As a side note, if I remember correctly HouHou lets you study individual kanji. With this setup you can only export entire words to Anki.

And if you read a lot, try Typhon. It has a built-in dictionary and on long tap it can export definitions into Anki along with the sentence the word appeared in.

Granted; I've been advised that going through a couple of levels of menus to get to Hungarian-specific dictionaries, for instance, is not really user-friendly. I'll be working on reducing the click count, but if you have any other specific examples of awkwardness and suggestions to improve the user interface, please feel free to let me know (in r/Jorkens, rather than in this thread), and I can try to work on them. Trying to provide a lot of different options for a lot of different languages necessarily adds some complexity, but there are probably better ways around that.

The local dictionary is always going to be the easiest to use, assuming you've imported a dictionary. I was working a while back on having dictionary searches done automatically when you hover over a word, but had trouble getting the throttling right, so too many events were firing when I moved the mouse over the page. I'll get back to that eventually. It was an irritating problem that I'd like to solve.

But Jorkens definitely is not a native mobile app; maybe someday, but not for a long time. Screen space is one issue; the size of the databases is another. I've thought about maybe having a stripped-down mobile client, with the desktop version housing the full databases etc. acting as a server, but haven't gotten to that yet. I do some reading on my phone, too.

There's a mobile epub app called Typhon that sounds like what you're describing, but I think it's only for Japanese, not Hungarian. See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zorgblub.typhon&hl=en_US&gl=US

Windows on my PC and Android on my phone. I can also borrow an old iPhone if there's a compatible "must-have" app. Most of the websites work well on anything, but I was looking for an e-reader app.

Found an excellent one for reading Japanese epubs called 'Typhon' for android. I just tap a word for definitions and long tap the definition if I want it to create a fully formatted (includes the sentence I found the word in) flash card for anki! The interface isn't too fancy, but it works like magic and it's free! I think it's a fork of the older 'Jade Reader'. I can't believe this app isn't talked about more on this sub (only got a few hits when I searched).

For epubs on android you can just use Typhon https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zorgblub.typhon&hl=en_US although I do like Jadereader best.

Typhon (Jp EPUB reader for Android) is the answer for reading on the go and adding cards with sentences to Anki. It's super productive with Ankidroid.

No experience with this personally, but I have seen Typhon recommended a couple of times in this subreddit.

Typhon

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zorgblub.typhon

When I read on tab, I use these:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ocrmangareaderforandroid/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zorgblub.typhon

Manga reader allows to bind OCR function on long tap, so I do long tap-short tap. On unknown word if I need to translate it, or on bubble to translate all 1-by-1. Typhon works with a text and allows to translate in 1 tap too. On PC it's similar. If I can copy-paste, I actually like very old tool for Jparser function:

https://github.com/Translation-Aggregator/Translation-Aggregator

Basically it segments all text (sometimes with mistakes, but if you already can use content, you know when it happens). Particles are one color, words are another and different words/set phrases are split. If you need to check the meaning, you simply hover above it. This tool can significantly increase your reading speed. In cases it doesn't work, it's good to combine with something like deepl. For example, onomatopoeia. For OCR I mostly use KanjiTomo, for the same idea of translating with only hovering above. It's a bit crude, but I'm not sure if there are better options for fast OCR translation. For web you can use something like Yomichan extensions.

With time it's better to transition from quantity to quality, in other words, monolingual dictionaries. It doesn't have much sense when you translate thousands of unknown words everyday, but at some point it's going to be only tens or hundreds at max even for long reading sessions. It's a good time to switch for precise definitions, such way you will learn nuances faster, simply by reading it's meaning.

Yeah, the easy answer for Android is Typhon, a powerful and free ebook reader that has dictionary lookup and even Ankidroid integration. I don't know about iOS options.

Typhon only takes EPUBs, so you have to convert your text files to EPUB first using Calibre, AozoraEpub3, dotEPUB, or any other EPUB conversion software.

Calibre also can convert Kindle AZW3 books to EPUB with the DeDRM Calibre plugin. Very handy if you buy kindle ebooks from Amazon.co.jp and want to read them using Typhon.

Typhon by Zorgblub is an EPUB reader for Android that should do what you want for EPUB files. It's fresh out of beta, but it's built on some solid Open-Source libraries.

Rikaisama for Firefox will also let you add stuff to Anki if you want. So you could read novels in HTML format or websites, and sentence mine if that's your thing.

JNovelFormatter will convert TXT files to HTML files for Rikaisama. Pretty much anything CB4960 makes is really freaking useful. EPWING2Anki is also really useful. Subs2SRS, OCR Manga Reader, etc. etc.