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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4834 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 1 of 6 05 October 2013 at 3:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Please see my posting at message number 7 in this thread:
PBO format and Aglona Reader It's about a new (to me) format for parallel texts, PBO - Parallel Books, and a reader for it called Aglona Reader, available for Windows and Android. A simple download with no install needed. There are some English-German-Russian (public domain) texts already available, but you can also create your own using Aglona reader. It's a manual process, but the author, Yanis Batura says that it's relatively easy with Aglona. Anyway, using Aglona for reading is easy and pleasant. I've only tried the normal mode so far, but there are 2 more advanced modes, which look interesting. A nice piece of work Yanis Batura. (Are you a member here?) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4834 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 6 15 October 2013 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Yanis has made two additional videos in English to help prepare your own parallel
texts: Preparing source texts for Aglona Reader Aligning Parallel Texts with Aglona Reader The first one is a process you have to do to your text files to make sure they are suitable for Aglona. That means things like making sure that double hyphens are converted to em-dashes. He suggests using something like Notepad++ for this. The second one is editing it to make it properly parallel. I'm not sure if I've fully understood the process yet, but I guess one gets into it. There are also Russian versions of these videos - check his channel : Yanis Batura, and also Reading parallel books in Aglona Reader the basic user guide to Aglona Reader. If you are reading this Yanis, thank you very much! :-) Edited by montmorency on 15 October 2013 at 1:11am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4240 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 3 of 6 15 October 2013 at 9:08am | IP Logged | ||
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What a wonderful program!
But too little amount of books *dreaming of de-en or de-ru Stefan Zweig's books*. Maybe I'll try to prepare some books of Daphne Du Maurier en-ru, if it'll be not very hard thing to do. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4259 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 6 30 October 2013 at 8:50am | IP Logged | ||
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The android version needs to be improved, it's kind of clunky as of yet.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4834 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 5 of 6 30 October 2013 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||
As I don't have an Android device, I haven't seen this for myself. Might be worth (tactfully! :-) ) giving him some feedback. I think his email address is on one of those links. It would be a pity if that version didn't become popular, as I'd think that's where the potential growth area really is. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4834 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 6 of 6 06 December 2013 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've now prepared 2 German novels in German-English in PBO format.
PM me if interested. (NB I won't answer questions about them here). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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