Read a physical Chinese novel with page-level AI help
At a glance
A language learner photographs book pages into Readly, resolves unfamiliar words, and rereads chapters without assistance. This workflow is listed under Language Learning, Reading, Flashcards.
- Agents / tools
- Readly
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What they did
1) Choose a physical Chinese book you actually want to read and open Readly. The maker used this process while reading The Three-Body Problem. 2) Photograph the page you are reading and load it into the app to obtain selectable text. 3) Look up unfamiliar words and add them to the app's Anki-style flashcards. Ask the AI questions about passages you do not understand, then reread the page until its meaning is clear. 4) At the end of a chapter, reread it quickly without the lookup tools before starting the next one. Optionally listen to the text in Readly to add listening practice. 5) Continue chapter by chapter, keeping the flashcards created from your actual reading.
How it went
The maker reports that combining page capture, lookups, flashcards, and questions in one app saves time in his own reading routine.
Worth knowing
The launch focuses on Chinese. Flashcards are described as Anki-style; the post does not document an export to the separate Anki application.
