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My side project : Bilinual books, interlinear books for language learners: https://www.bilinual.com

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Thanks, we are working to improve the quality of both our dictionaries and ML engine. Very hard to answer they the translation picked these and I have to look into each of these individually to answer your questions. The translations are not perfect but it is alive project and I am trying to improve it every hour that I find.

"I can't imagine how that would happen." : Just as a hint, click on "translations" here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_friends_like_these_who_n...

Hi, Thanks for checking the website.

1- 404 issue: I implemented the PDF generation recently and I noticed that WeasyPrint has issue with html files that have too many tags (our books have around 2*number_of_words tags in them). This is not a big issue and it will be fixed soon in the next iteration.

2- Using Google API: Google APIs and other translation tools are great for translating sentences. However, the problem with use of parallel texts for language learning is our brain laziness. After few pages, our brain looses its patient to solve the translation problems (critical thinking!?) and actually learn words and structure of sentences. The focus immediately goes toward translated sentences in your native language rather than the original text.

Personally, I learn a word for a life when I slow down and think about similar words, its root, and at the end looking it up in a dictionary. The process is valuable.

3- Team of volunteers: It is easier said than done. The functionality is present but I prefer to improve the suggestion engine as much as possible before I involve volunteers. Are you interested to join?

OP here, I found this website when I was looking for a way to get the updated version (with correction) of a PG (Project Gutenberg) book and all changes/diffs from the point that I scrape the book from PG website for my language learning side project: https://www.bilinual.com

The bilinual Project also rebuild ebooks (modern HTML, PDF and open ePUB format) with better quality and readability( while it is not its prime goal). Take a look at one example here:

https://www.bilinual.com/book/18043sven/sv/en#line=68&lpp=23 https://www.bilinual.com/download/18043sven-sv-en.pdf https://www.bilinual.com/download/18043sven-sv-en.epub

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Interesting. Thank you. Is it too difficult to add the style for electron based editors (I mean Atom, vscode, ...) that are more common?