Does anyone use this book? It is incredibly well packed with information, but the format is destroying my soul. Each week has 7 lessons, and each day's lesson has an insane amount of vocab. Day 1 has 10 kanji radicals, meaning 35 kanji and around 70 compounds. Even just to add all of this to Anki takes at least an hour, if not longer.

I was wondering if anyone had a spreadsheet of the info, or (dare I say it), an already made Anki deck?

Don't know of such a spreadsheet... HOWEVER, I think I'm going to pick up the N1 books for this series this weekend. I was just inquiring about this series over in the Gangsta's Only thread -- if there is indeed no spreadsheet I'd be down to jump on the mining bandwagon.

It should not take over an hour to add 70 cards. type the words into a browser window (here for example) get firefox's rikaichan add-on, mouse-over each word and press 's' to save the kanji, kana and english meaning to a text file for import into anki. This shouldn't take more than 20 minutes.

@nadiatims -- If you just want rikaichan cards, that's a fine method, but it kind of takes out the meaning of the book. Making spreadsheets/decks for workbooks is a lot more involved in that. People often put the sentences from the book onto the computer, in the same format as in the book.

As for the deck, I wish I could help out. I've heard nothing but good things about these books from my friends who've got them, but I haven't gotten my hands on them yet.

Hi,

Not to highjack this thread but if any of you have the So Matome N1 vocab book I've already started a project to mine it. I already have 50% of the material allocated to project members. Please let me know if you're interested. I may consider doing the Kanji book afterwards.

Cheers,

Kaiten