Flashcards app for kobo glo

[Trenien]

As it says in the title.
I wonder if there is a way to have some kind of flashcards software for the Glo (whether directly or with some change to its OS).

I am talking about a soft where you can define your flashcards yourself.

Thanks

[frostschutz]

I don't know of one. If there is I'd be interested too. Especially if it had a feature to force you repeat X cards for every Y pages read.

For "kanji flashcards" I use my random screensaver mod, it displays a random character whenever the device goes into standby. Doesn't do much for learning that way, though, it's just a gimmick...

It might be hard to add such a thing to the official Kobo reading software. If you were to use an OSS alternative such as KOReader, maybe it could be done with some scripting...

[c123]

I too enviously looked at the Kindle's "vocabulary builder" (and also a flash card app?), and would love something like it for kobo, but alas nothing for now.

[Trenien]

Anki would seem to be the most likeky candidate : it runs on both on android and linux, and kobo's base system IS linux. However implementing it is neither obvious nor straightforward...

[frostschutz]

You could just use the webbrowser to go to ankiweb not sure how eink-refresh-mobile-friendly that site is though.

Making anki run on the reader itself is... you still need a browser since the anki cards are all styled with HTML/CSS. And it's a whole lot of python. Well, the frontend is Qt and kobo itself also uses Qt but I don't think the versions are compatible, and the upcoming anki 2.1 uses even more up-to-date versions.

I just use the smartphone while reading, switch to ankidroid between chapters.

[frostschutz]

If you're still interested in this, I'm currently in the process of making a flashcard addon:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3764871