The iReader team just came up with a great new feature. I'm now getting my summaries back in Russian! I cannot read Russian, but I can't fly a 747, either. Still, I am impressed by both... :-)
How cool is this? And there are several other languages besides Russian you can choose from -- Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. This is just for the Firefox version of our iReader Web Previewer plug-in right now. In Firefox, you just go to "Preferences," select iReader, and then select the language. How delightfully simple. Here's a clip of the Preferences pane, which shows the languages drop-down menu at the bottom:
Our current IE plug-in ("Helper") doesn't have the translation feature yet, but the team's working on it. (It does have the new "gesture" feature now, though!)
To get our latest for Firefox, just hit our downloads page. If you've already downloaded a previous version, just go the "Tools" menu in Firefox, select "Add-Ons," then select iReader, and click on "Find Updates." (By the way, we're also planning to modify our downloads page so we can show you what's in a new release, and a release history.)
As far as the translation feature, does anyone out there know any of these languages well enough to know if the translations are good? Of course, any example would assume a good English abstract to begin with. Please let me know what you think of this new feature! Feel free to comment here, or continue emailing your comments to [email protected].
And thanks for your support of iReader!