Import ebooks in only one lesson

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Is there a way to import one ebook and have it all in only one lesson?
30+ lessons for each book are a mess to manage, especially with the buggy search/sort interface of the smartphone app

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Not at the moment I am afraid. I hope the day comes when we can have one lesson = one chapter.

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Not possible at the moment, lesson at LingQ is limited to 2000 words and when you are importing texts longer than that, it needs to be split in parts.

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Agree. The best that can be done is to import one chapter at a time. At least that way the chapter doesn’t end up merging with another one in the middle of a section.

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@SeoulMate: That would be great, maybe with an integration of ChatGPT or similar, that will be able to recognize the chapters and split the lessons accordingly.

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Is the root of the problem that lesson text is stored as a single field in some relational database?

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Here’s how I organize ebooks.

  1. Split the book into chapters and make each chapter a pdf.
  2. Import a chapter.pdf. LingQ will split it into 2K lessons, and it will put them all in a Course with the Chapter name.

All the parts will have ridiculous names, e.g. Part (1), Part(2) etc. I edit each lesson to change the Lesson names to something more meaningful for me. I also prepare a *.jpg that I can drop in while I’m editing the file so I have a meaningful thumbnail for each lesson and Chapter as well.

I never use the Lessons tab in LingQ even though it’s the default. Everything I have is jammed onto that tab making it worthless for organization or selection. I use the Courses tab. Since all my Courses have a thumbnail I made, I can readily identify them. I also freely edit Course and Lesson titles so they are meaningful to me so they pop out on the Courses page.

It’s a makeshift method, and takes a little time, but it allows you some abilities to organize the material yourself.

I even have a couple of books that weren’t available as ebooks that I OCR scanned, then imported using this method. Even more work, but they’re books I frequently read, so it has been worth it.

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