Typhon
by Benjamin Marlé
Version 1.5.2 💾 4 Mb
📅 Updated October 14, 2016
Typhon is an e-book reader with a Rikai-like lookup for Japanese language.
Features Typhon
Typhon is an e-book reader with the added capability of dictionary lookup for the Japanese language.
If you ever used Rikaichan or Perapera-kun, you know what this is about.
It ships with three dictionaries : edict and wordnet, kanjidic and enamdict for vocabulary, kanji and names lookup.
But you can also leverage the EPWING dictionaries that you own by configuring then in the settings.
It also integrates with Anki to allow you to save cards from a vocabulary entry with the context sentence from the book.Here is a list of the features:- Vocabulary lookup based on Edict- Japanese Names lookup based on Enamdict- Kanji lookup based on Kanjidic (slightly modified to accommodate Heisig index from the 6th version as well)- Entries displayed with color coding- Kanji lookup of an edict entry (short click on it)- Automatic import of an entry as a flashcard in AnkiDroid if installed.
It adds also the context sentence in the flashcard.
(long click on the entry)- Kanji entries display the Heisig frame number so that you know if you learned a kanji or not (surprisingly useful if you used the excellent remembering the kanji book)- Possibility to switch between Heisig 4th and 6th numbering- Possibility to zoom in on the entries- Support for wordnet - Support for EPWINGIf youre wondering why I added a kanji lookup on an edict entry, I think it is useful when you get a match with a hiragana word in the text but in kanji in Edict and youre wondering what is this kanji that you saw previously somewhere.Credits:-----------Typhon is a fork of PageTurner integrating some elements of JadeReader which in turns has ported some of its features from rikaichan.
And rikaichan uses Jim breens Edict, Enamdict and Kanjidic.
So it makes also use of rikaichans deinflector data and logic without which you would not be able to search an inflected verb in a text.- PageTurner: http://www.pageturner-reader.org/- JadeReader: https://bitbucket.org/rayzhou/jaderead-restart- Polarcloud: http://www.polarcloud.com/- Jim breens page: http://nihongo.monash.edu/japanese.htmlSince I modified quite a lot the original dictionary code from JadeReader, I decided to publish it as a Java library called JRikai adding support for Kanjidic amongst other things.
This work is published under the GPLv3 license following the compatibility rules with the licenses used by the software Typhon is based on.Source code:Typhon :https://github.com/benjamarle/typhon.gitJRikai : https://github.com/benjamarle/jrikai.git+ Experimental furigana support (activate in the settings)Bug fix for furigana :- The color of the furigana is taken from the color of the text- The can have several tags now
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"Best app to boost ones Japanese reading"
Silhouette Fg.
"Excellent app for my dictionary grind through japanese."
E C
"Almost perfect, missing only a quality of life feature I'm used to from jade reader: the option to have the dictionary hide itself again when you scroll."
Miratio mobile
"Cannot find a way to cancel/remove hilights. Otherwise a great app"
Ilkka Unnbom
"The links for dictionaries are broken. Which renders this app useless. Please fix it."
Blu Nova
"Crashing all time, syncing isn't user-friendly but the rest is pretty nice"
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"It won't let me open ANY ePub. With japanese or not, and tried many books. Permissions were given. Even the command for opening grays out ALL the books. Uninstalled."
Jose Luis Ochoa Padilla
"For Japanese learners, this is the best way to read e-books. There is no other reader that comes even close to the convenience of Typhon with the included dictionaries. The only downside are some minor usability problems. Mostly, I would like to have pages instead of a scrolling text. It's also way too easy to accidentally switch to the next chapter. But overall, I cannot think of a better reader for Japanese books."
grannath
"I love the single tap word lookup. There are some usability issues which are making the app a bit frustrating to use however. The dictionary pop-up doesn't disappear when you tap an empty space, you have to close it with the x. The reader jumps ahead to multiple pages further than I have read, and I have to navigate back to where I was reading. The bookmark feature doesn't appear to work. I can't retrieve my bookmarks, so I can't find my spot quickly. Thank you for your efforts on this app!"
Belinda Sinclair
"Typhon is the best way to read Japanese on Android (for the Japanese learner). Typhon is the only open source, modern, Japanese reader for Android with excellent dictionary lookup. I wanted to replace the LingQ reader with Typhon, and it blew LingQ's word detection out of the water. No more wasting time looking up dictionary definitions online and copying them to LingQ - just tap on the word. Typhon let's you focus on the text you're reading! I use Calibre along with Calibre's News features to download articles I want to read (usually gathered with Wallabag), which automatically converts them to EPUB for Typhon. I then use Syncthing to directly sync the EPUB files to my Android E-Ink tablet (an Onyx Boox Nova2). It's a bit convoluted, but I'm still quite happy with it. While Firefox for Android plus the Nazeka add-on does offer similar functionality, the actual user experience is so much better in Typhon than any other reading app I tried."
Macoy Madson
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