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Lector

a FOSS self-hosted language reader (with a cloud option)

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Lector turns whatever you want to read into a language course. Import an EPUB, a web article, a YouTube video or a podcast. Every word shows its state: new, learning or known. Tap for a translation, save the word, then practise it as frequency-ordered cloze and push it to Anki. Fourteen language packs ship with an offline dictionary and a graded first-1,000-words series. Self-host it free under the AGPL, or let Lector Cloud host it from $0.

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