Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08
Kaishu — The Offline Chinese Reader
Kaishu is an offline Chinese reading app that shows pinyin and English meanings when you tap a word, while saving your place to the exact character.
Why it surfacedThis is a notably focused reading tool: its roughly 125,000-entry CC-CEDICT dictionary is bundled into the app, so lookups work on planes, subways, and anywhere else without a signal. It also supports EPUB, plain text, and HTML imports, with bookmarks, word history, reading-time tracking, and precise resume points.
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The Fax Is Thinking
August 8’s newborn domains include a chatbot that replies only by fax, an Elmira tax analysis built from 1,689 sales, a map protecting Jeju divers’ precise fishing grounds, and 58 boxes catalogued into one uncle’s 1,113-book library.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.