Lisons!

If you’re trying to read books in a language you don’t fully understand, you are going to need a bit of help figuring out what certain words or phrases mean. Looking them up can be time-consuming and tedious, however, so this application may be just what you need.

Lisons! enables you to read e-books while also providing you with instant translations and human-translated example sentences. It is easy to use and offers comprehensive visual customization options.

The application allows you to open both EPUB files and plain text documents, so you should be able to add your e-books, but other formats, such as MOBI, are not supported. When you load an e-book, you can specify which language the translation should be generated in.

When you select a word or phrase, the program translates it pretty much instantly, displaying the translation in a tooltip and the right-hand panel. Numerous languages are supported, but note that the configurations have not been tested extensively yet.

Aside from translating any word and phrase you select directly, the application also provides you with example sentences from Tatoeba and Reverso Context. These give you a good idea of how they can be used in various situations.

The examples are all displayed in the sidebar, which can be hidden at any time. You can also view them in your browser with a single mouse click.

It is possible to change the default background and text color, select another font, set the letter spacing and text width, among others. Essentially, every UI color can be customized, so you can make everything look just right.

Lisons! is a very promising application for users who want to read e-books in various languages. It is a great learning tool, but keep in mind that this early beta version may have bugs that still need to be resolved.