By the way, I was informed by anonymous letter that もしドラ is Obi level 13.

Here is a list first sorted by Obi-2, then sorted by Hayashi. That is, first the results are sorted by Obi-2 grade level, and then the results within each grade level are sorted by Hayashi score. The list is sorted from easiest to hardest:

http://paste2.org/p/1470885

iSoron Wrote:Here's how I would rate these novels:

・ Suzumiya Haruhi no Bousou 80
・ Toradora 80
・ Denpateki na Kanojo 75
・ Spice and Wolf 75
・ Usotsuki Miikun 75
・ NHK ni Youkoso 70
・ Gosick 70
・ Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii 65
・ Hanbun no Tsuki 60
・ Zero no Tsukaima 60

Not the most scientific method, I know; but I think others who have read at least some of these novels will agree with me that the original ranking is not reliable.

Out of curiosity, what is the order that you read these books in?

Daichi Wrote:Out of curiosity, what is the order that you read these books in?

zero → nhk (feb 2009) → hanbun → spice&wolf → denpateki → toradora → suzumiya → imouto → gosick → usotsuki (reading it now). But the first ever light novel I read was Kino no Tabi (oct 2008); it's as easy as Hantsuki.

By the way cb4960, do you intend to release that as a tool or integrate it with other stuff you've made? Seems like an offline version could be useful/preferable, for various reasons.

nest0r Wrote:By the way cb4960, do you intend to release that as a tool or integrate it with other stuff you've made? Seems like an offline version could be useful/preferable, for various reasons.

I don't know anything about Ruby but it might be possible to compile it with IronRuby.net into an exe, or better yet a DLL. I'll take a look when I have time, but cb4960 will probably get there before me... (subtle hint)

Hello,

I have just released version 1.0 of JReadability.

JReadability is a utility that will compute the Obi-2 Reading Level and
Hayashi Score for the provided Japanese texts.

Download JReadability v1.0 via MediaFire (source code included)



You can either calculate the readability for a single text file or for every file in a directory.

All ruby information is removed before the readability analysis begins.

The output file has the following format:
Obi-2 Level <<tab>> Hayashi Score <<tab>> Filename

It's fairly basic for now. Feel free to suggest additional functionality/features/options.

cb4960

Wonderful, thank you!

Edit: removed pondering that was already pondered by others

Wow, this thread got me interested to look at those e-books.

hey... great!!!

i'd like to take a look at the 5000 books list if possible. It seems dpaste is gone now, so the links aren't working... does anyone have the list anywhere else?

IceCream Wrote:hey... great!!!

i'd like to take a look at the 5000 books list if possible. It seems dpaste is gone now, so the links aren't working... does anyone have the list anywhere else?

Here you go:

http://paste2.org/p/1470885

Could someone give a quick primer on digitized light novels (and I guess novel novels too...)? The term "light novel" always kind of confused me when it came up (probably because I thought it referred to "visual novel" as well). I just read the wiki and some blogs about the light novel genre/culture and it sounds pretty cool, but I'm completely ignorant about the reality of acquiring and viewing/reading them effectively -- what I mean by that last part is I think I'd go insane reading a ~200 page novel in a text file... hehe

K.

@kodorakun - See ‘totally innocent books’ thread (or possibly Google for something involving the number 5000 and related to Japanese books, but the former may send you somewhere to fuller files with images and such also, which can be used in certain readers) and also the JNovel Formatter thread or Yomichan for reading. (For viewing as vertical text also see other tools mentioned in JNF thread's first two updated posts.)

Edit: And if you were making a general reference to being unable to read books on computers, can't really help you there, I never understood people who have a problem with it and require dead tree versions or can only deal with mobile device reading sessions (for that you can use iOS stuff like Wakaru by the way or other readers (e.g. Kindle) after .pdf conversion [see aforementioned JNF thread]).

thanks again cb!!!

more specifically, you might want to try reply 156 in that totally innocent thread first...
(it took me ages to find, so...)

Thanks for the input guys! And nest0r, no particular problem reading content in digital format, but a raw text file that is infinitesimally thin is a little daunting, that's all

IceCream Wrote:thanks again cb!!!

What? No hearts or musical notes?? Jeeeez...

oh, okayyyy, this time you can have some stars then...

★★★★★

only those 5 though!

@cb4960

So if you remember what we talked about here centuries ago regarding a reader/level checker based on Anki knowledge: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...9#pid91729

And if you've seen ToasterMage's non-Anki variation on overture's morphology/i+N plugin: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid140569

I wonder if this could be a function added to jReadability to some degree. Perhaps it could parse and calculate by whole text, per sentence, multiple sentences, per paragraph, etc. What to do with that information has lots of possibilities also, per our prior comments, and might entail some relationship with JNF/Rikaichan/Real-Time Import? Perhaps colour-coding/highlighting, generating cards/lists of unknowns, various statistics related to difficulty/parts-of-speech, etc. The first thing that popped into my mind, oddly, was sorting text in books by i+N, but it would be swaths of text that factor in maintaining some variable measure of narrative cohesion.

I wanted to use ToasterMage's script before brainstorming, but I don't expect I'll ever get around to learning how to run something without a graphical user interface. ;p

Edit: Oh! And while we're at it: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid41238

There I mention using a level checking plugin in Anki (following this comment on the first page [or was it this one before it?]) which you use as a blacklist for subs2srs. I wonder how to integrate the known.db or whatnot with subs2srs?

Oohh, I thought of this while writing a comment elsewhere, but perhaps it could be used for webpages. Perhaps turn it into a Firefox addon? Although just copying text and entering it into the tool separately would be fine also.

Edit: Nevermind regarding the browser plugin, between a Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition counter mentioned previously and simply selecting and inputting text in a standalone, guess it'd be unnecessary. ;p

Edit 2: Damn it, I see I already mentioned Rikaichan in the other comment. I need a timeout. ;p