Hi everyone!
In the past when I would import an ebook, LingQ would break the book into lessons with an average of about 700 words. Recently, books I have imported are split into lessons of about 1,700 words. Does anyone know if this is a change LingQ has made and if I can break my books down into shorter lessons? Thanks!
Lessons are now automatically split at 6000 words vs 2500 words previously. This is to allow the import of full ebook chapters without split.
At the moment, it is not possible to adjust this limit unless Lingq allows users to choose the length of their lessons in the future.
Thanks for the clarification.
I noticed the difference too and wondered what was going on.
I don’t use the automatic split from Lingq. When importing books, I import them by chapter, so I can read chapter by chapter, which I find a far better experience.
@mde036 yep, now for the people that didn’t care and they prefered to have shorter lessons and not wasting time in doing that split, they are forced to do chapter by chapter so to avoid having lessons too long.
The problem that I see is that they become super slow to open and to manage (which I experiencing it now) and all the audio resets problems when you pick up the same lesson after few days.
I hope, we will have some day the possibility to choose the length we want to for different occasions.
I actually now like both options as they are both worth it.
@David , so the book I imported couldnt read it due to new changes coming into implementation and making it really slow. I guess I will delete that book again then import chaper by chapter by creating a new course.
Atleast there is a way around now. Thanks for sharing it. This solution worked.
I am sure Zoran will say " I am glad that it turned out well". 
Are there plans to implement this setting?
I couldn’t care less about book chapters, I just want to maintain the steady pace every day, and the current split size is too big for my tastes.
There is no setting to personalise the size of lessons and to be honest, i cannot see this coming any time soon if at all. The only solution if you don’t want long lessons is to split the lessons manually and import each part separately. Tedious, but there is no other way.
So I’m creating lessons of individual chapters and some chapters are more than 6000 words… So even if i create lessons chapter by chapter, some chapters get split, which is somewhat frustrating, and initially was confusing because I didn’t realise it would do this, and I thought something went wrong because half the chapter was missing. So hopefully we can get an option to create much larger lessons.
Yes, it would be nice, but they would have to address the performance issues that have plagued Lingq almost since Day 1. As soon as a lesson is too long, even if it approaches 6000 words, the web app is getting more unresponsive and it takes several seconds to get the pronunciation when clicking on the word. As for the iOS app, it just closes unexpectedly.
Ah, fair enough. Was not aware of those issues.
There is a bit of a hack: if you “regenerate” the lesson with the text of the entire chapter, you can “trick” LingQ into making a longer lesson. You’ll then need to delete the second (and possibly third) lesson that was made from the chapter, though.
Thanks! I’ll try that. 