Core decks vs extensive reading

(2015-12-15, 1:42 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: (1) There's a ton of vocabulary in there that's a little too easy at this point.

(2) Is it a good idea to  only do recognition?

(3) How do you manage the amount of reviews you get? 

1: No harm in just marking them as easy. Unless you set the max interval low they will soon enough disappear.
2: I read an article about this in a general sense, buddy was using portugese as an example but it would seem to apply anywhere. Trying to recall second language from your native language keyword apparently involves a deeper more involved mental process. I'd also assume it would be the better way to gain active vocab vs passive vocab. However if your goals are to only listen and read media you really have no need to active vocab.
The speed advantage fo recognition is probably best for you. Also as it doesn't take much time, if it isn't working for you, you can always flip the switch.
Myself, assuming I keep at it, I'll probably do the 10K deck, the JLPT lists and the various text vocab [hopefully with no overlapping cards] in recall with production mode and if I can get ANKI to do it, probably double up the cards for recognition. Once I get into native material I'll probably just recognition the rest. The top level of the Russian test assumes 8K active vocab and 12K more passive and that seems like roughly a good goal. However I'm not you [lucky you].
3: I set new daily cards to 0. Then I use custom settings to change the new cards for that day only. It should be in the middle as you go into the decks on the computer version. Bottom right hand if you try to open a deck with no new cards in the android version. I've been using that since day one. Do X RTK Kanji, release X cards, do Y release Y cards etc.
It's easy to do and allows you to cut back if you are getting too flooded and also allows you to adjust depending on mood... although that last point could be considered a disadvantage. I suppose if you prefer to keep new cards at a certain same level a day you can just dial that setting back if the reviews get to be a bit much.