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by njrc9 3609 days ago
Thank you so much for the feedback everyone! I posted this yesterday evening (in Japan) and so catching up now the next day.

kevining: That is a very good point about having free access to a book of each difficulty level. You are absolutely right, since with only an intermediate level book available for free, subscribing is a gamble as to whether there are books suitable for you (definitely don’t want to put people in that position).

I’ve updated the site now so that you can access 3 books (1 of each level) for free.

> 2 - If time permits, consider having a button which can display a translation of the entire sentence. Satori reader has something similar and it's very useful when there's unknown grammar

This is definitely something I’m thinking about. I toyed with the idea of translating each page myself and making that available at the bottom of each page. But scrolling to the bottom of the page is a hassle so I’d want to figure out something more integrated.

I also wasn’t sure how useful whole-sentence translations would be since I figured people using this would probably already have a good understanding of grammar. But perhaps these books are advanced enough to warrant whole-sentence translations regardless? Thoughts?