Hi. This is my first post in the site. I have. T he anki deck of the kanji odyssey, but the cards in the deck have the text as an image, so it is very tedious figthing with año ocr programm to be able to edit the kanji. I have found varios links hére in the forum related to a text format versión of the anki decks of the kanji odissey, but all of them seem to be expired. Does anibody has such deck.? I would be very grateful if somebody could sen me it.
Thanks in advance.
Also, the web is very useful.Now i am finishing rtk1, and My next step with the japanese will be combining the kanji odissey vocabulariy with sentencies extracted of epwing dictionary throug the anki.
Chao

I created a deck full text with audio while working through KO. If you can proof your ownership of the original material, meaning taking a picture of it together with your e-mail address written on a slip of paper and uploading it on imageshack, you can have it. Without a proof, please don't waste your time asking.

borja1980, there are many alternative resources you could use. Not everyone here is stingy with their work. Try this thread:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=6840

You can hardly call it stingy when all I try is not to infringe someones copyrights. Think of it what you will, but since the deck contains all the sentences + audio + kanji, which is the full program offered by Coscom, I don't see why it should be given away freely. The authors deserve to be paid for what I consider to be a good program, that's all.

Nagareboshi Wrote:You can hardly call it stingy when all I try is not to infringe someones copyrights. Think of it what you will, but since the deck contains all the sentences + audio + kanji, which is the full program offered by Coscom, I don't see why it should be given away freely. The authors deserve to be paid for what I consider to be a good program, that's all.

You are right. And you are following board policy also. Ignore that comment.

buonaparte has uploaded countless media, including much from Coscom. If it were "against board policy", the thread wouldn't be A) a Sticky thread in the "Learning Resources" subforum, or B) up to page 17 by now. borja1980 should be able to find what the source media being asked for within the thread I linked, as buonaparte has more than likely shared it for everyone to use. Which clearly the site owner doesn't mind.


But whatever helps you sleep at night.

uisukii Wrote:buonaparte has uploaded countless media, including much from Coscom. If it were "against board policy", the thread wouldn't be A) a Sticky thread in the "Learning Resources" subforum, or B) up to page 17 by now. borja1980 should be able to find what the source media being asked for within the thread I linked, as buonaparte has more than likely shared it for everyone to use. Which clearly the site owner doesn't mind.


But whatever helps you sleep at night.

He sure did. But if you care to take a look at whats linked, you should notice that it is freely available material, offered by Coscom. As far as the deck is concerned, the OP already has found one, just not the way he would like to have it.

The board rules for sharing are indeed lax, which is a good thing in its own right. When it comes to textbooks, and decks, and other such things, i haven't seen any freely available material in the form of a deck floating around, that is offered without proof of ownership.

Not only are there direct links, there are also links to torrent sites, etc. That aside, the "Core 10k" media found linked on this website (not hard to find) is media ripped from smart.fm and the paid ios app (for the last 4000 items).

There is also the Japanese Dictionary of Grammar (both Basic and Intermediate) books of which I've created decks out of and linked the a spreadsheet with all the data, here:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=10723

The data used is all from the books I own, and unless I'm mistaken, isn't freely available. By all means, do whatever has to be done to have this removed, if you feel it is doing a disservice to the copyright owners.

uisukii Wrote:The data used is all from the books I own, and unless I'm mistaken, isn't freely available. By all means, do whatever has to be done to have this removed, if you feel it is doing a disservice to the copyright owners.

Thanks for the advice. I will file a complaint with the forum owner. The material you posted is in violation of copyright laws. Shame on you.

Perhaps when you'll be an author (like I am) and see your work pirated on Russian websites for everyone to download just weeks after the original publication, and receive absolutely no royalties for your work because of this practice, you'll understand that pirating does a huge but invisible damage - by disincentivising authors.

[Zgarbas]

There's a slight difference between sharing the book and sharing your flashcards made from the book. Whether the maker of a deck wishes to make his work freely available, keep it to himself or share it under certain conditions is, of course, up to him.

If all flashcards made, inspired by or using bits of copyrighted material were banned, then the website itself, which is a flashcard system based on Remember the Kanji (a book, mind you) would not exist. A list of example sentences would hardly be pirating the book itself. It's the user-friendly explanations that sell it. You'll notice that most freely available decks only have bits of vocabulary, example sentences, etc. whilst lacking the actual textbook part.

Also note that thanks to the existence of these decks and flashcards, lots of people end up buying expensive books they would have otherwise avoided (I personally bought RTK since it helped fill the gaps for the flashcard systems). I'm sure there is a market somewhere for people who spend $300 on a 20-year-old grammar database of which they've not heard anything about, I guess (talking about the dictionaries of grammar here).

louischa Wrote:Thanks for the advice. I will file a complaint with the forum owner. The material you posted is in violation of copyright laws. Shame on you.

Perhaps when you'll be an author (like I am) and see your work pirated on Russian websites for everyone to download just weeks after the original publication, and receive absolutely no royalties for your work because of this practice, you'll understand that pirating does a huge but invisible damage - by disincentivising authors.

Perhaps. Not one to hide my shame, poverty or foolishness. It is sad that authors may blame their lack of creativity on financiers. Great novels and poems have always been historically lucrative authors, after all. But do what must be done.