Keep Japanese and English together
The Japanese source remains visible. The English translation is shown as parallel text rather than replacing the original.
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JAPANESE NOVEL / ENGLISH TRANSLATION
LIB read is a bilingual long-form reading platform for novels and web novels. It keeps the Japanese original visible while you read an English translation, so you can continue through chapters without turning the book into a translation-only document.
Direct answer
Yes. Open a Japanese public work or import a supported book into My Library, choose English as the bilingual target, and read the Japanese and English text as corresponding sentences. Reading position and bookmarks are kept so you can continue a long work later.
WHAT LIB READ DOES
The Japanese source remains visible. The English translation is shown as parallel text rather than replacing the original.
The Reader aligns source and translation by sentence and lets you move between corresponding positions while reading longer passages.
Select language in the bilingual Reader to check contextual word meaning, part of speech, idioms, phrasal expressions, and grammar explanations.
Keep reading position and bookmarks, move to the previous or next episode, and return to the same long-form work instead of starting a new translation session each time.
READER EXAMPLE
ORIGINAL / JAPANESE
SCROLL SYNCTRANSLATION / ENGLISH
SCROLL SYNCThe actual Reader also supports sentence-position matching, contextual language explanations, bookmarks, reading-position saving, and read-aloud controls.
HOW TO USE
Choose a Japanese work from public works, or sign in and import a supported file into My Library.
Open the chapter or episode you want to read. The work remains organized as one long-form title across its chapters.
Turn on bilingual reading and choose English as the translation language. If a saved translation is available, LIB read can reuse it.
Read the Japanese first or use both panels together. Keep your bookmark and reading position, then continue from the same place later.
WHY PARALLEL READING
Instead of sending each difficult sentence to a separate translator, the source and translation stay connected inside the work you are reading.
The Japanese text remains available at all times, so the English version does not replace the source you are trying to read.
Chapter structure, reading position, bookmarks, and previous/next navigation make it suitable for books and serial fiction read over multiple sessions.
SUPPORTED
PLAN & ACCESS
FAQ
A. Yes. LIB read keeps the Japanese original visible and can show an English translation as corresponding parallel text in the Reader.
A. Yes. Bilingual mode adds a translation alongside the source; it does not replace the Japanese original with English-only text.
A. Yes. Works are managed by chapter or episode with reading position, bookmarks, and previous/next navigation so you can continue over multiple sessions.
A. Yes. My Library supports TXT, EPUB, DOCX, and PDFs that contain extractable text. Image-only scanned PDFs are not supported.
A. There is a ¥0 Free plan. Premium is ¥680 per month in JPY. On Free, AI stories, bilingual generation, and My Library imports share a total allowance of 3 uses per day.
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LIB read keeps the original text, translation, chapter structure, bookmarks, and reading position together so a long novel remains a reading experience instead of a series of one-off translations.