judicial-coral•7mo ago
Migaku on Boox
I know the reader is probably going to appear sometime early next year. Does anyone know how well Migaku works/will work on a Boox?
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judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
@PoorAlaska I have seen you mention this. It does not even let me log into on my device. Do you have similar issues?
harsh-harlequin•7mo ago
i can log in but it’s extremely jank and unusable
that was on earlier version of the android app tho awhile back. haven’t used it since bc doing flash cards on the boox is horrifyingly awful since migaku got way too many animations and it’s slow even on iphone it be slow and clunky sometimes
and also there’s no reader so pretty much no other reason to even use the app
if i had to guess they will release a reader, then much later optimize for tablets, then much much later optimize for e readers. but i’m an extreme schopenhauer-esque pessimist so …
judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
I would like to use it for the reader when it comes out but I am skeptical it will be functional. I do not think there is enough of us to give a focus.
optimistic-gold•7mo ago
Maybe they can add an eink theme to the reader and we just use it in the webbrowser
harsh-harlequin•7mo ago
i’d even donate a boox to the devs to optimize for it cuz i got two but yeah i doubt we gonna get this
judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
I was considering offering to buy them one.
harsh-harlequin•7mo ago
i got the leaf 2 and the page and only use them for english books bc honestly the yomitan experience sucked too
and i don’t use anki anymore. only MM
judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
I used to make cards with kindle anki add on before they discontinued that. That has been only way to make cards from ereaders that I have seen.
harsh-harlequin•7mo ago
they’d need to optimize for 2gb/3gb RAM devices and add e ink color setting and add the reader. then let you pass fail with the page turn buttons. damn that’d be sick …
you can yomitan to ankidroid with ttsu reader. just need to download an extra jank android server app thingy. it worked for making anki cards and doing yomitan lookups
judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
Saxon mentioned a lightweight mode for migaku without the HTML injection, so maybe something like that could work, just the pop up dictionary. Full parsing probably would be useless due to no colors.
harsh-harlequin•7mo ago
yeah i mean don’t need full parsing. just touch based lookups like yomitan but you can create a card. just keep it simple for us ppl that don’t wanna stare at our phones all day
or sit at the computer all day
judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
I can read much longer with an ereader than on my computer. I hope that they can do something that works for us, but the app is difficult to even use atm.
Apparently LingQ works on Onyx e-readers.
harsh-harlequin•7mo ago
yeah, im fully on your side with this. we are probably just the minority
i just dont want to mess around with more apps especially since i dont want to leave MM (cant even if i wanted to given they dont have a way to export cards out yet)
judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
Honestly I want to be able to make cards for Migaku using my e-reader. I have a poke3 and I'd like to switch to one with a speaker and maybe a bigger screen but I do not want to buy anything until it is functional.
harsh-harlequin•7mo ago
nice yeah, same. i'd hold off on buying anything then
first of all boox releases new stuff like every year
and realistically its gonna be like march or april at the earliest we get a reader... then add months of optimization before we got something on ereader if they even prioritize it at all which i doubt
judicial-coralOP•7mo ago
I am currently using my dad's ipad and have nothing but migaku, discord, vpn, and tracker. I have almost no notifications so maybe I can get a similar effect to an e-reader.