Life & fun · September 6, 2025
duoBooks
Read anything with translation to your native language
duoBooks launched on September 6, 2025 with 8 votes, #1,468 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Slick book reader where you can import any book in foreign language and read it with translation to your native language. Save words to personal dictionary, learn them with Spaced Repetition technique and improve you language skill
Learn languages by reading. Get 3000+ English books and stories. Tap any word or sentence for an instant translation. EPUB import, flashcards, audio. iOS & Android.
Read the books you love. Tap any word or sentence to see its precise translation and meaning in context. Works on iPhone, Android, and e-ink readers. You did not learn your first language from word lists. You met words in real life, again and again, until you knew them. Reading works the same way. You meet real words in real stories that you chose, at your own speed. But one thing often gets in the way. You stop every few sentences to look something up. You get distracted and lose focus, and the story falls apart. duoBooks fixes this. You stay in the book, and you learn the language as you read. Learn English by reading . duoBooks does more than look up a word in a dictionary. When you tap…from duo-books.com
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