Fantastic App - In Need of a Couple Tweaks
I use this app nearly every day in my phone and my iPad. It’s lightning fast and allows me to read for pleasure, or hone in on a particular word or phrase in a given text. As another reviewer said, it’s great for reading and research. There are so few typos (and some have been corrected already in the big authors like Seneca or Plato), so I’m confident I can read for pleasure and have never hit a confusing sentence that wasn’t just my fault! I’d like to see two things to improve this app. First, the Latin dictionary will tell me the form but not the meaning. I get both in Greek when I highlight a word and press “Analyze” in the menu that pops up. All I get in Latin when I do the same is the form. Having the dictionary built right in is clutch! And so the app is only halfway there. I’d also like to see a Mac version, or at least a good way to export highlights. I found myself highlighting at first, and I still will for certain authors when I know I’ll come back to the app. But since the highlights can’t easily be moved or synced (to my knowledge), they feel kind of locked in and so I find myself highlighting less. Even just a text export would help me move it to a spreadsheet or something more permanent. Thanks for developing this fantastic app and making it free! I hope it just continues to get better and the corpus keeps growing! I’s love to see more Late Antiquity/Patristic authors. I read some Cyprian of Carthage but no Gregory the Great, for example.
