Drops gather into trickles; trickles merge into streams; streams flow into rivers and seas; the ocean rises as mist and cloud; and clouds gently fall as rain, nurturing trees and earth.
Essays & Reading Notes
Reflections on Learning and LifeCrafted Reading Tools
Quiet & Practical Digital InstrumentsTo read deeply, one needs quiet instruments. In my spare hours, I crafted these lightweight digital tools to filter out digital noise and foster immersive flow:
Deep eBook TTS reader integrated with AI comprehension and offline audio transcription.
- Sentence-level TTS highlighting & offline audio transcription for seamless listening
- AI-powered reading assistant: instant book summaries, condensations & self-quizzes
- Inline citation popover previews & smooth two-way jumps for deep academic reading
Read web articles and your own books (txt / md / EPUB / PDF) as natural audiobooks.
- Web pages and whole books with millisecond sentence-level highlight sync
- Clean Reader plus a dedicated Book Page with 6 eye-care themes, zero clutter
- Click-to-read with a confirmation bubble and read-from-any-sentence freedom
Minimalist distraction-free reading, read-it-later, and spark notes.
- High-contrast paper-like typography for eye comfort and focus
- One-click web article dispatch to your pocket reading devices
- Zero-distraction annotations and streamlined reading journals
Authentic literature-based spoken English shadowing and oral pronunciation practice.
- Built-in scoring engine delivering instant real-time phonetic feedback
- Selected classics and contemporary passages broken into manageable chunks
- Break the silence barrier by speaking naturally in vivid literary contexts
About Jimmy Liang
Known online as "Dianshui Runmu" (Nurturing Wood with Droplets). Here I share candid musings on learning and life, alongside a few quiet, practical digital tools I crafted to solve everyday reading hurdles. Regarding language learning, I believe good tools should be as gentle and unobtrusive as flowing water, and true methods should return to the essence of language itself. And occasionally, some trivial thoughts are jotted down just for the soul.