MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - save also translation together with highlighted word?

marp68 · 05-28-2016, 06:32 AM

I know the different methods of how to save/fetch/backup/export markups/annotations from device. For example the method getting a file with different columns for the markup and annotations.

I mainly use the annotations when reading Spanish books and I like to mark words (with context) that I don't understand and look up in the included dictionary. Both in the Sp-Sp and the Sp-En. The problem is that after finishing the book I don't remember the translation when looking at the saved markup.

Wouldn't it be a nice possibility to, in the exported file with the markued word/phrase, be able to include the translation information about a specific word that was looked up while reading the book. In this way it would be easy to, after finishing the book, repeat and learn from the list of both source word within context and the related translation of the specifc word.

One solution could be that when looking up a word, one can also choose to add the translation as a annotation to looked up and highlighted word. And that it also stores the whole phrase in which the lookuped word exists.

What do you think? Would it be possible to write a code for this kind of feature for the device?

05-28-2016, 06:32 AM	#1
marp68 Addict Posts: 283 Karma: 132294 Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Sweden Device: Kobo Clara HD	save also translation together with highlighted word? I know the different methods of how to save/fetch/backup/export markups/annotations from device. For example the method getting a file with different columns for the markup and annotations. I mainly use the annotations when reading Spanish books and I like to mark words (with context) that I don't understand and look up in the included dictionary. Both in the Sp-Sp and the Sp-En. The problem is that after finishing the book I don't remember the translation when looking at the saved markup. Wouldn't it be a nice possibility to, in the exported file with the markued word/phrase, be able to include the translation information about a specific word that was looked up while reading the book. In this way it would be easy to, after finishing the book, repeat and learn from the list of both source word within context and the related translation of the specifc word. One solution could be that when looking up a word, one can also choose to add the translation as a annotation to looked up and highlighted word. And that it also stores the whole phrase in which the lookuped word exists. What do you think? Would it be possible to write a code for this kind of feature for the device? Last edited by marp68; 05-28-2016 at 06:34 AM.