#smart books

[rigelmejo]

Oh also, to hype up this app Smart Books even more (apparently its on app store as Parallel translations of books. Which. Yeah thats literally what it is and it's great:

So in this app, it shows book statistics. Which I'm always fascinated by. Here's my current stats for Guardian:

It shows how fast I'm reading in words per minute, how often I'm looking up words (caveat here that I keep clicking some words I know reading wise for pinyin pronunciation), shows my progress (4% is pathetic but also impressive considering I restarted today and the book is over 100 chapters). It shows how long I have read total and I'm happy to say the timer does NOT count when you minimize the app or switch to other apps with it still open, making the time read quite accurate (and really calling out my ADHD for taking a break from reading every 5-20 minutes ToT). And it shows estimated time to finish the book. Which is a feature I love in any reading app. And I have to say, personally? I am VERY motivated to see the estimated time go DOWN. So when I see it, it motivates me to kick up my reading speed, and remember fucking words so I don't slow down to look them up again. I like motivation, so I love the estimated reading time. And a fun fact about Guardian, the audiobook is around 55 hours if I remember correctly. So the closer I get to seeing that estimated remaining time go down to 55 hours, the closer I'm getting to spoken reading speed! I've already improved a lot as when I started reading it estimated 98 hours, now after a bit of reading its estimating 72 hours. Huge improvement. (And yes, if you load a Chinese novel in this app you'll be hit by the reality a fuck ton of Chinese web novels are from 20 hours for SHORT SHORT ones to 100+ hours to read... for a fast reader). For comparison, I'm also reading 坏小孩 which is only 124k words compared to Guardian at 304k words... and 坏孩子 is estimating ill finish reading it in 28 hours (I think it's audiobook is 20 hours so that's at spoken reading speed).

And Guardian word statistics:

This fun word statistics area lists the words by order of how often they appear, so its great for if you want to pre-study vocabulary for a book. Or if you want to review common words in it. Or if you're curious how MANY fucking unique words are in a book. Fun fact, 坏小孩 has around 8000 unique words, compared to Guardian's 16,740 unique words. Despite this, I find 坏小孩 harder cause apparently of my lexicon of Chinese words I know how to read, it's mostly words priest uses. And the 坏小孩 author uses a word I am not familiar with about every 20 words ;-; to be fair, Guardian leans heavier into case investigatkom stories/supernatural which is the bulk of Other novels I've read too. Whereas 坏小孩 has many more every day words for card games, school, building descriptions, orphanages, which I do not read about as much.

Anyway my point is: this app is free and pretty dang useful if you're trying to read a language you're learning. It generates parallel texts!

#smart books #app #rec #app recommendations #reader app #reader tool #reader

[mo-mode]

The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT

#it’s not that they don’t have the other two it’s that they all had their smarts privileges revoked #Annabeth lost her street smarts and common sense privileges when she tried to buy all that candy with only $200 #Percy lost his common sense and book smarts privileges when he couldn’t figure out he was a son of Poseidon after using literal water powers #grover lost his book smarts and street smarts privileges after trying to reason with Medusa and a cop respectively #they’re all my children tho #don’t worry they’ll get their privileges back #eventually #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series #annabeth chase #grover underwood

[purpleturtle014]

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[98chao]

#i was never book smart im kromer smart #deltarune #spamton g spamton #kris dreemurr #shitpost #ms paint #my art #2023 #1k

[kindlythevoid]

Friendly reminder that Merry knew about the Ring before Bilbo even left. Friendly reminder that all of Frodo’s hobbit friends were spying on him through Sam to make sure that he was alright and that he wasn’t going to leave without saying goodbye. Friendly reminder that Merry and Pippin knew about the Ring and its importance to the Enemy and still decided to go with Frodo. Friendly reminder that Frodo wasn’t going to ask them to leave the Shire. Friendly reminder that Fredegar Bolger was one of Frodo’s close friends and knew about the Ring as well, but stayed behind in order to keep Frodo’s disappearance a secret for as long as possible.

#listen the hobbits don’t get enough credit #They’re sneaky bastards and will use that against you in the best ways possible #The ultimate chaotic goods honestly #I love the movies and they are a service to the books #But sometimes I get sad that people don’t seem to get how smart and insightful the hobbits actually are #kiki re-re-re-reads the lord of the rings #the lord of the rings #meriadoc brandybuck #peregrin took #merry and pippin #sam gamgee #frodo baggins #fatty bolger #just yelling into the void

[purpleturtlesho]

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[juliaxyn]

Focus on studying. I know it's hard, but believe me, it's going to be worth it.

#studyspo #study area #studyblr #study aesthetic #study notes #studystudystudy #studyspiration #student #study space #study smart #coffetime #coffee #books and coffee #i hope you like them #aesthetic #books & libraries #mine #thoughts #moodboards #moodboard #study inspiration #study diary #study inspo #study hard #studyinspo #qoutes #studygram #study challenge #college studyblr #university studyblr

[mistylakeee]

That scene in crooked kingdom where Kaz refuses Nina’s plea to help the grisha escape and then Inej gives him a look and says something along the lines “rack that massive brain of yours and figure it out or I’m out” and he agreed in front of everyone. He’s so pathetically in love there’s no way the other crows weren’t side-eyeing. Someone pls find this scene for me🙏🏼

#kanej #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #six of crows #soc #crooked kingdom #can someone find me this scene #I don’t have my book with me cuz I’m at college😭 #kaz was probably just happy Inej called him smart

[vanessavixenx2]

“Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do.” —Unknown 📖🤓 Vv xo

#books #bookish #reading #read in 2023 #nudity #outdoors #curvy #curvy and sexy #smart #smart and pretty #curvy body #curvy mature #curvalicious #sweet and sexy #mature sexy #curvy af #curvy girls #natural bewbs #curvy blonde #canada

[dinoserious]

nother unposted, lizalfos design i was poking around with a few weeks ago

#tloz #lizalfos #anthro #lizard #sketch #concept was like. lizal who was uninfluenced by ganon. trades w hylians n such in heavy clothing/disguise. bit of a collector #smart cookie who squirrels away books and artifacts #i like the lizalfos design in botw/totk a lot. the chameleon elements are very fun

[rigelmejo]

i’m going to blog a bit about the Smart Books app later today i think. it’s a nice free app and i highly recommend it. the biggest feature it has that makes it unique among all the other Reader apps that also work well? Smart Books makes parallel text translations of every sentence in a file you open in the app. 

Pleco can give click-translations for words, which are excellent, and Pleco can also machine translate an entire passage (using google translate). But Pleco cannot give sentence by sentence machine translations. So it’s hard to compare the machine translated LONG passage to the chinese passage in Pleco, therefore Pleco is mainly used for individual word translation. The web browsers can all do click translation (Chrome, Mozilla, Edge) and they can do parallel translation of highlighted text, but it requires some time consuming highlighting then clicking ‘translated with google translate/deepL/etc” then that app is opened then clicking ‘translate.’ Yes, it only takes 1-2 minutes, but that’s longer than the 1 second click it takes in Smart Books. 

In Smart Books app, you open a book, then it separates the book into shorter lines and lets you play TTS audio for each line and click a button on the right of each line to translate it and display a parallel text translation right below the line. The result is: you can replay a line of audio over and over if you need to re-listen to one sentence without having to pause, go back and re-highlight the beginning again etc. You can display a parallel translation when you need it, and keep it up to look at or hide it again, whenever. With just a quick click. (And if you like Listening Reading Method, you can conveniently have audio, target language text and translation text, for each individual line so you can repeat as much as desired). The parallel translation is also nice because sometimes looking up individual words still doesn’t clarify the grammar going on in the sentence and it’s overall meaning. Oh also, you CAN also look up individual words in Smart Books by just clicking the word. You can also save words, similar to in Pleco or Anki. 

The parallel translation quality: fairly good. I think it’s a little better than Google Translate, about as good as DeepL. So far I have seen mistakes of switching pronouns between he/she/it if the pronoun isn’t specified or was only specified in the previous sentence (and confusing ta for he/she/it in chinese translations is quite common with mtl), some mistakes of who is performing a verb and who a verb is acting on if the sentence does not specify explicitly (so the mtl just makes an assumption, go by what the sentence before it meant to clarify who did the verb in the next sentence if no noun was specified in the sentence with the verb). It’s done very well with chinese names and places, which I’ve been surprised by because Google Translate’s biggest issue translating chinese is trying to translate names as literal objects adjectives etc. The parallel translations are still machine translations and of course nowhere near as good as translations made by people, but of the machine translations I’ve seen, Smart Book’s mtl seems as good as DeepL and possibly even a little bit better. I suspect because DeepL will use context from prior sentences to translate future sentences in a passage, meaning if there’s an error at some step then the entire passage can get the error. Whereas Smart Books translates lines individually, so when I see a translation error it only tends to be in a single line and the rest of the lines are translated fine. (And usually the error is, as I said: a pronoun is not used in the chinese line so the translation puts the wrong pronoun when translating to english, or the verb used in the chinese line has no explicitly written subject/object to the translation just makes an assumption in the english to assign something as subject/object).

#Smart Books #apps #rant #review #app review #reading #reading tools #reader

[pancakemolybdenum]

 @josuyasuweek2023 day 2: stolen kiss / confession / stands

each idiot is more clueless than the next

#josuyasuweek #josuyasuweek2023 #josuke higashikata #okuyasu nijimura #josuyasu #lovisas art #i stand by that while okuyasu doesnt have the book smarts josuke is the bigger idiot #he is the last one on earth to catch onto the fact that the feeling is mutual #jjba #jojo

[shouldersshrug]

some of yall need to infantilize sam less. im all for different viewpoints on characters but sometimes it’s just downright disrespectful. “haha sam thinks chocolate milk comes from brown cows” that is a grown man who smokes weed and has a computer science nerd for a best friend

#sdv #stardew valley #just a personal gripe i have with a lot of posts and sometimes even some of the fanfic i read 😭 it happens so often #people dumb him down SO much even though he’s a very smart person. just not in the book smarts way #he is emotionally intelligent! he knows wtf is happening around him! he isn’t patrick star spongebob! #sam stardew valley #shoulder shrugging

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[theannoyeddragon82]

wow these bitches are really fucking gay

#this specific comment is directed at hesper and wylan from six of crows but literally applies to any of my characters #*jesper #im reading the book rn and its so good #idk at this current moment if wesper is actually canon but. they are in my head. #can i just say the line #flirting with him(wylan) might actually be more fun than annoying him #is REALLY FUCKING GAY #also ON THE SAME FUCKING PAGE #JESPER TELLS WYLAN THAT HES CUTER WHEN HES SMART #TO HIS FUCKING FACE #so idk how they're not gonna be canon at this point #thank you for coming to my ted talk

[indestinatus]

↪ Percy & Annabeth (2023) | The Lightening Thief (2005)

#percy jackson #percabeth #annabeth chase #pjo series #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #dailypercabeth #pjosource #percyjacksonedit #percabethedit #mygifs #part 1 of infinite parts of this #i'm rereading the book and gotta say #they're pretty smart adaptating it #it also looks like she's sleeping on his legs :') #*mygraphics