I'm currently reading through 魔女の宅急便 as my first novel five and a half months into my Japanese learning journey and really enjoying the process. I look up about 1 word per sentence on average, so it's mostly N+1, perfect for mining.
However, there's a tiny problem.
The only computer I currently have access to took an hour and twenty minutes to boot and just open Firefox. I tried to install dictionaries on Yomitan, but when I tried to delete a duplicate file, the thing just froze. I didn't even try installing Anki or anything.
Basically, it's (for all intends and purposes) useless. Therefore, sentence mining on that thing is impossible.
I tried to set up sentence mining on my phone, but the Yomitan popups on Kiwi Browser would appear in the second I tapped on the screen and disappear before I could even read the definition of the word. Even Jidoujisho (which is pretty alright) doesn't really work on my bookwalker novels (because of the DRM, so it's not their fault, really, but it's just annoying). The pre-installed photo OCR, both on my old IPad and my phone either wouldn't recognise Japanese characters at all, couldn't copy vertical text or would try to display Japanese text as Roman letters that.
I can't get books from clears throat other means because the copyright law is somewhat draconian here and (if I were caught and sued by the rights holder) I'd face a fine of €1,500.
I know that Kobo ebooks can be de-DRMed, however, you need a computer for that, too, so it doesn't really matter which one I use, anyways, and Bookwalker is easier to set up, if you want to buy Japanese books.
Basically, I can either manually type up every sentence on my phone and import it to Anki which would probably take me multiple hours a day, time that I could read in instead, OR I could just use the premade Tango decks while I save up for a proper computer.
What do you think?
by saywhaaaaaaaaatt