Personal Translations

A personal translation is your own English name for a term, applied instantly and visible only to you: no moderator review needed. It draws from the same 200-a-day glossary suggestion budget as every other edit (see Pricing and limits), though setting a handful of personal translations won't come close to using it up.

Setting one#

Open a term (from a chapter or the novel's Glossary page) and use the Your Translation field near the top. Type a name and press Save. Once set, your version replaces the public translation everywhere you read that novel: in the chapter text and in the glossary.

Personal translations are per novel: setting one on a term in one novel doesn't affect the same term anywhere else.

Quick picks#

Below the field, you'll see badges you can tap to fill it instantly:

• Other readers' picks: translations other readers have set for this term, with how many readers chose each one.
• AI suggestions: type an instruction (optional) and press the lightbulb button for the AI to suggest alternatives.

The Aa / aa button next to the field toggles your typed text between Title Case and all-lowercase.

Removing it#

Press Remove next to the field. This clears your personal translation and the term goes back to showing its public translation for you.

Finding your personal translations#

On a novel's Glossary page, the Mine filter (next to the search box, visible when signed in) narrows the Local tab to only the terms you've set a personal translation for.

It never changes what others see#

A personal translation is invisible to every other reader. It only changes what you see. If enough readers set the same one independently, it can be proposed as the new public translation; see Community votes for how that threshold works. Setting your own personal translation is never itself a public suggestion.

The blue highlight#

If Community Suggestions is on (Settings → Site → Community Suggestions, on by default), a term another reader has translated differently gets a subtle blue underline, a hint that a personal translation is available if you want to check it. Turning this off removes the underline; the term is still tappable, so you can still set your own translation without the hint.