New Russian-English books in ParallelBook format
In this topic I will post information about new parallel texts in ParallelBook format available for download.
ParallelBook format is a new ebook format specifically designed for parallel books used for reading in a foreign language alongside a translation in your native language.
Its main and unique feature is the possibility to set correspondence not only between matching paragraphs or sentences in the source and translation, but also between smaller parts of sentences.
At present, there is only one reader and editor for this format, namely Aglona Reader (for Windows + .NET Framework), but a free reader for Android is scheduled for development starting in December, 2012.
Aglona Reader is a free, open-source program that can boast of high rendering speed, smart text formatter and a brand new system of color highlighting.
ParallelBook format is open.
All parallel books I introduce in this thread are based on free texts from Public Domain and have been released into the Public Domain themselves, so there will be no trouble with copyrights.
Download free books and the program from the home site of the project: https://sites.google.com/site/aglonareader/home/lang-en (ad free).
"The Daughter of the Commandant" by Pushkin
"The Daughter of the Commandant", a historical novel by Alexander Pushkin, is finished as a parallel book in Russian and English in PBO format and available on Aglona Reader project site.
Although not the biggest book in this format, it is a result of work of several people: Tatiana Batura, who aligned the source texts, and two users of this forum — Sperk and me (Inego) — who translated the parts missing from the original translation by Milne-Home. Also, I have converted all proper names in the English translation according to the modern transcription rules. Today, the English translation from this parallel book is the only full English translation of the novel available in the public domain.
Sperk — thank you very much for your help! Without it, this work could not have been finished!
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"The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov
"The Lady with the Dog" (Дама с собчакой), a story by Anton Chekhov, has been aligned by JamarriJa.
Thank you, JamarriJa, for your efforts to make Russian classics closer to learners of Russian!
You can download the parallel text from the Books page on the Aglona Reader site.
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