I think console games are really the problem. Everything else is pretty much looked after by the 'bot.

I did use a counting device for a console game and it worked well enough but I found myself not playing for the contest after a while. I rather surprised as I thought games would be my biggest input and they turned out to be negligible. I am not sure if this was because of the mendokusai nature of counting them, but it certainly didn't help!

With books, subs, manga etc. it really is very easy though I think.




@keyboarder: I don't like arguing at all. I really dislike disharmony and I am sorry if I gave the impression that I was doing that. I always respected (and continue to respect) your different priorities and lack of interest in our approach. I also explained, for the record, what our position is (because this is a public forum not a private conversation and I wished to clarify our perspective on what you were saying). If I gave the impression that I was trying to argue with you or negate your point of view or deny its validity for you, I apologize because none of that was my intention at all.

Anyway, as you say, I think we have both said all that needs to be said on the subject. Thank you for the discussion.

sholum Wrote:You could use a simple counting device while playing, but that seems like it'd get really tedious; better to actually do the reading and enjoy it than not do it because recording it is too much of a pain.

I came up with something for the time being. I'm currently playing emulated games so I set up joytokey to emulate a mouse click when I press a combination of buttons on the controller(one of the bumpers and the normal accept button). Then I have something counting mouseclicks and I guess I'll enter them as sentences.

By the way, does anyone know what "double-rowed" means?

I am reading regular novels so I doubt it applies to me, but I was curious to know what it meant.

CureDolly Wrote:By the way, does anyone know what "double-rowed" means?

I was confused about that too when I first saw it. Found the example though: https://readmod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/01_022.png

You'll only run into it if you read really long books, most likely. It's a way to save paper by putting double the content on each page. I'm not sure what the Japanese word for it is though.

Thank you so much for the information.

Yes, I see, because vertical lines of text are longer than horizontal ones, it would get confusing to the eye when the text is small, so they divide it into two half-pages, essentially.

I would have called that double-columned, since a column is what goes from top to bottom and they are doubled. But if that's the standard name for it, who am I to carp? (Usually I'm to coy to carp anyway).

But then again - that is done (in the other orientation but for the same reason, to avoid eye-straining line-length in small type sizes) in Western books like dictionaries and encyclopedias and we definitely call that double columns. So I guess the Japanese version has to be double rows.

I wonder if anyone calls someone with a regular - uh - row in a Japanese newspaper a "rowist".

Excuse me for muttering aloud here.

January 2016 round! Who is participating?

I'm in, but I set for myself a really low goal, as this is my first Tadoku round.

Same with me since I'm only 1/4 of the way through core10k

Looks fun, I just signed up. I want to do lots more reading (already do a lot but MOARRR) before I go back to Japan in April for uni. Most of my reading is physical books and web content so should be less mendokusai for me to count than for gamey people x) Anyways...よろしく(^ω^)

I've done a few rounds over the years but have yet to meet my goal.IMO it was mainly due to a few things:

-Not having prepared reading materials
-quitting too soon

I found this Tofugu article ease my reading fears.Especially since I plan to take N3 this December.
http://www.tofugu.com/videos/how-to-read...se-faster/

I'm participating again. I have a feeling that most of my score will come from this week though, since classes start next Monday for me.
I'm already about half way to my goal though, 'cause I rediscovered a manga that I read years ago and then forgot about (because it disappeared from the internet after being licensed and then abandoned by the company, like so many other series...)
Binge read three volumes, think it'll slow down a bit now. (Thought about translating some since I saw a bit of interest in the project, but leeches will eat you alive if you don't give them a completely edited and typeset release (or if you edit poorly, or you don't do things the way they want, which they never agree on)... Maybe later...)

Anyway, it's good to see so many new faces joining! Happy reading everyone!

I decided to join too (as Anonamul). I'm working on reading the Kagerou Project light novels , which I bought a long time ago but never made it much father than the first book. I just finished rereading the first book, though, so I'm ready to tackle the rest!


Here's a link to the Tadoku manual in case someone needs a link: http://readmod.com/manual
I didn't know it was going on since this page hasn't been updated https://readmod.wordpress.com/

The most pages I ever did in tadoku in previous rounds was less than 50 :/ I'm determined to do more.

@sholum: I started classes today but I'm wait listed in 2/3 courses. Chances don't look too good so I might have more time to read xD it's winter session so I guess its OK to have only 1 course (winter session is 5 weeks)

I hope we all meet, if not, exceed our reading goals!

I'm participating as well. I used to participate in Tadoku, but last year was pretty hectic, so no reading was done at all. I have the Sakurada Resetto light novels which I've purchased when I was still new to Japanese, so, time to crack open those shiny new covers! 

(2015-10-04, 9:02 pm)cracky Wrote:

CureDolly Wrote:By the way, does anyone know what "double-rowed" means?

I was confused about that too when I first saw it.  Found the example though: https://readmod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/01_022.png

２段組
http://howto.fanweb.jp/archives/35

What does the #nico tag mean?

Reading the comments on niconico douga video site (they scroll across as you watch)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/video_top

Thanks.

We have an irc channel, #tadoku, on rizon, if anyone who is competing is interested. (Or anyone interested in chatting about extensive reading).

I said hello but no one was speaking :/ oh well

(2016-01-08, 2:29 pm)RawrPk Wrote: I said hello but no one was speaking :/ oh well

Give it a few minutes. Most of us are in there while at work , while reading, and stuff.

How was this Tadoku round for you?

For me it was quite interesting. It was my first round, I had no expectations about my reading rhythm and my available reading time, so I choose 200 pages as target, but I achieved this target in about 10 days, so I decided to reset it to 300, where I arrived at the end of the second week. After that I had to slow down the pace, this left me somehow with a bitter taste because I got used to compete with another reader and now I missed the competition. By the end of the challenge I got over 500 pages, while my virtual competitor got over 700. 

Anyway, my 500 is definitely more than I have hoped at the beginning of the challenge. Another good thing that happened to me was the fact that I struggled to read every day, even if it was only 2-3 pages.

I must admit that I felt a bit like cheating, because most of my reading material was manga. I counted only the pages with a decent amount of text, but still I read 5 manga pages way more rapidly than 1 page from a book. So, for the next round I plan to reduce the manga pages (and sentences) and to increase the book pages.

All is left to say is that I'm grateful for TadokuBot and I can't wait for the next round.

The TadokuBot-san is wonderful isn't she?

My official goal was 800 pages but I had a "private" goal of 1,000. I ended up with 1,021 and was in third place for Japanese and 4th place overall. Definitely my most ambitious round so far! I probably won't increase my goal much next time as I don't think I have time to read more than that - unless my reading speed increases. I am a slowish reader in English. It would be kind of fun if my Japanese reading speed eventually outpaced my English.

I read mostly books (88%). The rest was mainly subtitles and Professor Layton, which I counted as sentences.

I read a novel on my reading list, start to finish, which it great because I generally have a hard time sitting down and reading (I can usually read 10-25 pages in one sitting before I get bored). I would have liked to have read a lot more. After I finished the novel, mentally I was ready to work on other things and a pretty much stopped reading after that ^_^; I'm pretty keen on studying vocab now, especially the words I mined from that novel.