Indeed I have time on Sunday, but I wasn’t sure of what to read.
And so… Japanese first. Goal: 100 pages of text. Manga pages / 5. I haven’t figure out a way to count Aozora’s text; maybe via smartphone screen, then Page Down.
I will focus on catching up with the clubs (maybe overtake) and new other interesting ones.
Aozora Advent of the Unknown
本の読み方 スロー・リーディングの実践 and related references
妊娠カレンダー third story
嵐のピクニック (committed, but haven’t started yet)
日本人の心がわかる日本語 (purchased, but yet to commit)
I am reading イジらないで、長瀞さん, but not sure how far to continue and buy new volumes.
Other manga clubs that I have bought the books, like 葬送のフリーレン and ダンジョン飯.
Aozora is all select-able text, you can just copy and paste it into something like https://www.charactercountonline.com/, this is how I have been counting
My sleep schedule is all sorts of messed up right now, so I think my plan is to start late on friday night and then continue on into saturday for my 24 hours.
I’ve also tentatively picked out a visual novel to play for the challenge!
Relatively short at 43k characters, no branching, it is sorta texthookable with a lot of junk, but I might be able to just play through it without needing to rely too much on the hooking. Kinda hard to character count like that unless I can finish the entire thing, though Actually, since JPDB has character counts per chapter, I can just add those together as long as I start/end on chapter breaks, perfect!
Last time I forgot that I signed up this time I will make sure to set reminders.
Planned reads:
The Jam Maker
Nutshell Grammar if I need refreshers
Hole in the Wall
Goals
Try to finish The Jam Maker might be impossible if one episode takes 1 hour.
(I will note my starting position when I start)
Participate
Remark
I have a lesson that Friday so depending on how I feel I will start Saturday or Sunday.
I will not rush my reading and will read normally as understanding it is key.
Will definitely make sure not to be disturbed. And prepare plenty fresh tea.
There are plenty of reasons to read, but I signed up for 8 week reading course with a qualified teacher in person starting in the new year. So definitely could use reading immersion.
I think I’m looking likely to join! Last time I was just about the last, shifting my time a day later, and since weekends are never the best for me I’m probably going to do the opposite and be one of the first, starting early. I think I like breaking up the reading over a period of sleep like I did so I’ll probably start all the way Thursday evening sometime, to finish up on Friday.
Last time I had 65,819 characters across 8 hours, so I’m looking to beat that. More than anything I’m focused on the characters; we’ll see how hours go. If I beat it in a shorter time that’s a victory to show real progress in speed, though that’s certainly volatile depending on what I read.
I’ve got a relatively easy pick on hand; I think I’m going to read 怪人二十面相 | L28 , and like before, this only. Start it up with the challenge and see how far I get. Looking forward to it.
Hmm. I think I’m very unlikely to manage this challenge in the allocated time, as I’m visiting family in the UK and going to my sister’s place this weekend. And then there’s Xmas.
I won’t be part of the challenge, but I’ve got >24 hours of flights back to Australia from 28/12 onwards, so I’ll probably do my read within then. Which I’d probably have done anyway…
It took me a while to figure out what I’ll be reading during the challenge but count me in!
I will either start the challenge on Saturday or Sunday morning depending on how I will feel.
Initially I was planning on progressing through my next route of 薄桜鬼 again. However, for this route I’m doing grammar lookups on anything I’m not familiar with and I’m afraid that dozens of grammar lookups for hours will make my brain melt sooner than later. That’s why I decided not to torture myself and read something else.
I considered reading various manga volumes from my Bookwalker backlog but opted against it. Instead, I will take on the 1st volume of 葬送のフリーレン in order to finally catch up a bit with the corresponding book club and the 1st volume of the テイルズ・オブ・ゼスティリア light novel adaptation.
I’ll try reading the latter without too many grammar lookups just to see how far I can get even if it’s very likely above my current level. It’s been almost 10 years(?!) since I played the game shortly after its release but I do remember some story bits which might make things a bit easier to understand…at least I hope so.
Goals
Read at least 6 ½ hours
Finish 葬送のフリーレン 1
Read at least 15 pages of テイルズ ・オブ ・ゼスティリア 上
I plan to read on the 21st. I haven’t quite decided what yet, though. Maybe more Tadoku books or one of the previous absolute beginner selections? Watch this space!
I can do the 21st or 22nd I think. I was going to be working weekends but I recently went back to the normal shift. I was also going to have a Christmas thing with the family that day but my cousins got covid this week so we’re doing that after Christmas and hopefully with masks on. I may be busy baking cookies early that morning for a church thing for Christmas but after a nap I’d probably be okay that afternoon to start reading.
Uhh, I can probably try finishing up that chibi book that I never finished. The one where she has a cool fashion designer aunt. I read a good bit of it back in the summer readathon but not all of it. Maybe finishing the last third of weird house? Without the club I’ve been much less interested in finishing it since I haven’t been seeing discussion about it as much but I was interested in the mystery of that family.
I started the challenge yesterday at 5 p.m. already because I will be busy from today about 5 or 6 p.m. and over the whole weekend, so this way I can fit it into my schedule.
Now I have a few books I want to finish this year for my Natively Bingo, but of course I had to come up with a new book for this challenge Of course it’s also a choice for my bingo card It is 献灯使 | L39 (my choice for “hardest book ever” ).
So far it is going amazingly well, the book is a true gem, and it really does not feel that difficult, but when I checked my reading time, I realized that it took me 1.5 hours to read 10 pages so the difficulty is pretty much there…
So it doesn’t seem likely that I will break any records regarding number of pages read - but maybe I will switch to some other book in between if it’s too exhausting. (There are still 10 more days left to finish this book anyway, right )
hmmmm so many things to read
will have to make some kind of decision here soon!
Def can catch up on takagi moto (already read vol1 and vol 2 but since the club started been rereading vol1 and also slacking and work on several chapters of frieren to catchup
Can sneak in more of the shotetu 僕が夫に出会うまで (no way can finish but def will read more)
Would like to finish ふだつきのキョーコちゃん。 Read Vol 1-5 and start Vol 6 but put it down for some reason and never picked up 6 again (can probably knock these two both out it’s only 2 vol).
Maybe good to use this to catchup and wrap up past series.
If I get bored and need a break, there’s always reading in JRPGs, FF1 or Okami (not sure how to count those but can be done all in Japanese. )
Also wanted to but haven’t gotten back to reading “cat book” 世界から猫が消えたなら . Been reading this book super slowly a little bit at a time with a native speaker for out-loud reading practice. A little bit at a time once a week, about halfway through (super slow). But I was going back and rereading for complete understanding. But haven’t been rereading in many months (probably should do that). But that is def a lot of re-reading.
And of course if need a break from all that, there are always the family friendly doujins. Shouldn’t really run out of stuff to read
But when to start… hmmmm (maybe tomorrow afternoon/evening) but then stuff to do.
right now just soft ideas/not quite goals yet but random thoughts …
I’ve started the readathon earlier than planned, since I had more time today than expected and realized that I’ll probably end up sleeping on the plane. I’m reading 本好きの下剋上 26 as planned and have read 1 chapter out of 15 so far. Although it’s a bit of a stretch, I hope to finish it by the end of the readathon tomorrow.
The results post has been made into a wiki, let the games begin!
My original plan was to read all day Saturday, midnight to midnight, but due to holiday prep and guests arriving I’ve changed my 24 hours to midday today (Friday) until midday tomorrow. I’ve got two manga to read and a whole stack of new books calling my name. No lack of fun content, just hoping I have the brainpower to manage it all
Can I ask why you’d be interested in converting character to page count here? there are no real pages on aozora, character count is just strictly a more accurate measurement, and one that other people here are also using for counting stats in this challenge
Also this is just frankly and obviously wrong, I’ve never encountered a normal book with this kind of character density, because simply multiplying every row by every column on a page does not give you a character count per page: whitespace takes up a significant amount of space in all kinds of texts
If you have a thing you care so much about comparing page counts to, take the character count of that book and divide it by the total pages and you have a real average per character count per page.
Normally I don’t use ttsu reader, text hooker, or mokuro; and so didn’t really make character counts.
I understand that a page is variable for character counts, but a page full of characters is easiest to imagine, and so, like, mental arithmetic and gauging magnitude.
It’s usually half a density or less – 200-500 characters per page.
ofc, I can do it the opposite way – pages * average character count per page. But I would still need character count per page for this nonetheless.
I regularly count characters and agree with javerend this is too high. If you’re looking for a more realistic estimate, all my paperbacks with vertical text have about 300 per page whether they’re for middle school or adults, or 50-100 less if there’s lots of dialogue
It’s lucky when an ebook has page numbers listed online somewhere, I just divide the number of characters in ttsu by the total page count. The Suzume novel has about 355 characters per page with that math. It gets complicated when I’m reading a VN thinking to myself “how does this translate to book pages?” I just use 350 as an average per-page count, which I think is reasonably close to an everyday book. Anything +/- 50 of that number would still be reasonable in my opinion. Over 400 sounds dense like a textbook page, maybe
Started today at 1130 local time. That means I have until 1030 tomorrow morning due to time differences. Thought I’d have more time today but only had an hour at the airport, though I did finish Shikimoris not just a cutie (p 67 - 147) in that time. It was surprisingly cute.
Hopefully I can finish Vampire Knight (not sure if ill like that one tbh) on the flight, and then maybe continue Honzuki V2.
Sadly…I forgot my noise cancelling headphones at home. I do have my earbuds so it’s not a total loss but it’s been a while since I’ve flown without them.
Edit: managed about 1 - 1.5 hrs on the plane. I was too lazy to get my tablet out so just read Honzuki. Got about 5500 characters read.
Edit 2: read about 30 pages of vampire Knight before bed in maybe 20ish minutes. that’s all I’ll probably get to since I’m about to get breakfast with some old friends.
That’s why I decided not to torture myself and read something else.
Of course it’s also a choice for my bingo card 
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so the difficulty is pretty much there…
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I do have my earbuds so it’s not a total loss but it’s been a while since I’ve flown without them.