re/read - free browser extension: an offline library of web articles and EPUBs

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0.5.45 is released. Key changes:

- the reader's menu has a "Full screen" row. On Firefox for Android it hides the address bar and the status bar, on a desktop browser the toolbars. Especially usefull for e-readers (like boox) where pages are turned with keys, so Firefox's own "scroll to hide the toolbar" never happens. Back or Esc brings them back.

- a book added from an EPUB file keeps its pictures. They are read from the file, nothing is downloaded. The list shows how many pictures a book has and how much space they take, and the book's menu has a "Remove pictures" row that deletes the pictures and keeps the book.

- Improved editing of the range of existing highlights (they can be shortened or extended, word by word).

- On a site where only the reader is on, the bubble under a selected phrase has two buttons now: "Read in the reader" and "Open the offline reading list". The second used to look like a label, not something to press.

- Fixed: some pages opened with "There was no article to find on that page". They open correctly now.

Happy reading, thanks!

https://reapps.eu/read

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A brief explanation - to edit an existing highlight, you first need to click the highlight icon in the page header, and then click or tap on the highlight itself.

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0.5.46 is out. One change - it concerns the translation of individual words.

A translation model works on whole sentences: the meaning of a word is worked out from the words around it. A single selected word has no such context, so its translation can be arbitrary - a rare meaning, a word cut short, or a word that does not exist. Phrases and whole sentences are translated much better. For single words a dictionary is the better source: it lists every meaning of the word, and you pick the one that fits.

Until now, with a translation model switched on, the dictionary entries and the translated sentence were shown only after a press on "More" in the bubble (with the model switched off, the entries were already shown right away). From 0.5.46 they are shown right away with the model on as well, under the translation, whenever you select a word or a phrase. The "More" button is now labelled "Less" and hides them, and a new setting, "Show the sentence and dictionary entries right away" (in the screenshot), restores the short bubble. The setting is on for everyone, existing installations included. The bubble over an already saved phrase is unchanged: it shows the saved meaning, and the sentence and the entries after a press on "More".

If you do not have a dictionary yet: in the settings, under "Dictionaries", you can download a bilingual WikDict dictionary with one click, for the language you read and the language you translate into, or add your own StarDict files with "Add a dictionary from files" - a monolingual one, English-English for example, works the same way. The "Translation models" section of the settings now has a note on this too: a single word on its own is often translated wrongly, and for single words the dictionaries are the better source.


GitHub release: https://github.com/fundacja-reborn/r...eleases/latest
Firefox Add-Ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reread/
Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/de...imcmmeeoplfcla