Cool, so just grab the data and dump it into the existing sheet and just vlookup between pages on the sheet. Seems easy enough (assuming I can understand how vlookup works and can convert the JSON). Will give it a go!
Thanks for the help, it worked - you can see my implementation in the Vol2 tab of my DanMeshi sheet. I ended up having to split off a column and then do a =LEN thing in the data-source sheet (since I need to be able to sort by frequency, so needed the stars represented numerically as well as visually) but it all seems to work nicely. This should save me a bunch of time (and more importantly annoyance) going forward!
I spend most of my time saving time =D
ひさしぶり!
I’m trying to figure out how to set up ichiran. I finally have a text file and I just want to make a frequency list of what’s in it, but I don’t understand how it works at all
Welcome to my nightmare.
Once it’s installed and working, it’s great.
But getting that far isn’t always the easiest…
What operating system are you using?
Do you have Docker installed on your system? If so, the Docker build for Ichiran may be the easier way to go.
For Windows users who don’t mind less sophisticated word/expression recognition as a cost for easier setup, I’ve seen Japanese Text Analysis Tool recommended.
But if you’re up for the hassle of getting a superior system set up, we can look over what it takes to get Ichiran up and running on your system.
Oh gosh I’m not great at tech either
This might work perfectly! I’ll see if I can get it set up. It’s for a single project, so that’s probably better
Thank you so much!
(I didn’t want to post this on the 玉藻の恋 ABBC thread, lest I unintentionally scare away any potential first time readers, so I’m posting it here instead.)
I had forgotten what my percent of known words is for 玉藻の恋, which the ABBC starts this upcoming weekend.
I decided to pull up my manga vocabulary site and look through the list of manga (sorted by percentage of words known) to see how long it would take me to find 玉藻の恋.
Each page has 36 series listed.
Page one has manga ranging (for me) from 83% known words down to 77%.
Didn’t find it there. Not in the top 36.
Page two gets me to manga in the 77% to 75% range.
Still not there. That leaves the top 72 out.
Page three ranges from 75% to 73%.
That’s 108 entries, and I still haven’t reached it yet!
Onward to page four, which ranges from 73% to 72%.
Even the manga adaptation of かがみの孤城 is showing up before 玉藻の恋 for me!
It’s not until I’m scrolling down page four that I see…
It’s in 125th place on the list!
The good news is, it’s not actually on par with かがみの孤城:
What makes 玉藻の恋 score so “low” is the high number of words that appear only one time (67%).
A higher number in this field is common for a volume that has more variety of events taking place. A volume with little happening and sticking to one locale tend to have heavier word reuse. And considering 玉藻の恋 is only a single volume long, I expect it’s the former.
I’ve been finishing up some series I’ve been reading, lowering the number of series I’m in the middle of.
And yet, I’m still reading enough series that these are the first panels of my planned reading for tomorrow:
I take it you’re still reading more than a dozen …
That’s still taking coincidence to a new level sheesh, what is your manga collection trying to tell you
no pressure then!
is that view from kurifuri? I haven’t seen that one, but I haven’t been back to kurifuri since I switched to manga-kotoba
It’s my Mokuro bookshelf (available on Github).
It uses my fork of Mokuro (available on Github) that adds some extra Javascript so that the browser’s local storage (used by Mokuro to store which page you’re on and your settings for a volume) and adds information such as a reference to the cover image.
The bookshelf portion is a single HTML file that reads in the Mokuro data from the browser’s local storage, displays cover images and progress, and lets me access all the manga I’ve opened in Mokuro right from the page.
How are things looking for me so far?
As the first half of the year comes to a close, I should be at least 50% of the way to my 100 volume goal in order to stay on target.
Somehow I’ve managed to surpass the 60% mark.
A large part of this is due to reading during my commutes to work and back, as well as during my lunch break at work. When I’m working from home, there are too many other things I can fill my time with that I need to actively set aside time for reading or it’s easy to miss out on completely.
Completed volumes:
Currently reading (some more often than others):
(Will be adding the final volume of 好きな子がめがねを忘れた to that list soon enough.)
It’s that time of the year again. Volunteer duty in my local convention’s anime department.
I made certain I’m looking at the correct year’s schedule this time, which only just went live the past couple of days (with the convention starting in a few days).
What shows will I be swapping DVD’s and selecting “Japanese audio with English subtitles” for?
Thursday through Sunday:
- Yashihime Princess Half-Demon (will be 2/3 through when my shift starts)
- Monthly Girls’s Nozaki-kun
- Horimiya
Thursday through Saturday:
- Nagasarete Airanto (I’ll never understand an English release using a pure Japanese title)
- If Her Flag Breaks (title sounds light novelish)
- Jubei-chan 2
- Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan-Demon Capital
- Food Wars!
Looks like I’m working the right room to catch some episodes of one of the book clubs I’m in (Horimiya).
I watched through the first season of Nozaki-kun back in maybe 2019 and it didn’t hold my attention (main reason I didn’t join the book club for it).
And nothing else looks of interest to me.
That means I’ll be seeing how well I do reading Japanese manga while Japanese audio is playing in the background.
I just need to figure what my reading setup will be like. I don’t recall if there’s enough light in the back of the theater to read on an unlit e-reader. I should import some things onto my smartphone just in case.
Considering I recently finished a few series, now’s not a bad time to add something new into the mix to put onto the smartphone.
Tentatively, I’m considering:
There was enough lighting, but it’s a good thing I went the smartphone route as well, as my e-reader is…having issues after several minutes of reading:
The screen corrupts, then the device freezes, then powers off.
There is no correlation between remaining battery life and corruption, although battery life had been getting worse lately. The corruption occurs even if the device is plugged into a power source.
After turning the device back on, there’s a 25% chance it freezes during boot. When that happens, it loses all settings (returning to the factory default Russian interface language). Sometimes, multiple reboots are necessary, which can take several minutes to half an hour just to be usable again. Considering my bus commutes and lunch break are each about 20 to 30 minutes long…
Thus, my thoughts went to buying a new e-reader.
Gulliver History
I bought the Onyx Boox Gulliver e-reader back around…maybe 2019?
It’s been great for reading on the bus in place of my old Samsung Note 10.1 tablet (the original model), being faster (better processor) and easier on the eyes (being an e-ink screen versus LCD).
Due to working from home during covid, the Gulliver fell out of use for me for much of 2020, 2021, 2022, and early 2023. (Those years flew by fast.) That means I’ve gotten about two and a half years of good use.
Considering the device cost around $400 to $500, it’d be nice to have gotten more use out of it. Between the degraded battery and the crashes, it’s no longer usable.
Replacement Considerations
The Gulliver is nice because it’s essentially a general Android (e-ink) tablet, but for a replacement, I wanted to consider something from Kobo, as I’m strongly invested in their digital ecosystem (with no reason to change that).
Size
The main pro for the Gulliver has been the 10.3" size.
Close to the size of my Samsung tablet before it, this is the perfect size for me to read manga on. Granted, I’m still zooming in to see smaller or less clear text in manga, but that’s not a problem with the responsive zoom of the Gulliver.
Kobo has a 10.3" device that (like the Gulliver) supports a stylus, but it’s also priced like a 10.3" device that supports a stylus.
Reading on my 6" smartphone for a few weeks suggested I could adapt to an 8" screen with a responsive zoom.
Software
Being a generic tablet, I was able to install the following onto the Gulliver:
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Kobo’s Android reader to read manga on.
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KDE Connect to wirelessly transfer EPUBs from my desktop PC to the e-reader. (This was necessary because I used to read manga in English on it, so had it using my US Kobo login. Switching to my Japanese login removes the need for this step.)
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Takoboto: A Japanese-to-English dictionary. On a Kobo device, this can be replaced with Kobo’s built-in dictionary and a custom Japanese-to-English dictionary for Kobo devices.
I’ve also used a screenshot application on the Gulliver, but I haven’t used it in a long time. It’s nice to be able to take a screenshot, write notes on it, and send it to my desktop computer via KDE Connect, but the screenshot application was always too slow and clunky to be a good experience.
Kobo
For Kobo, the options came down to:
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Elipsa: A 10.3", with the Elipsa priced at $350 and the Elipsa 2E at $420. As much as I would prefer to stay at the 10.3" size, I can’t justify spending $420 plus another $70 for a cover on a device that I don’t know if it will last more than a few years of use.
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Aura H2O: My current Kobo that I already own. It’s great for novel reading but lacks the responsive zooming I would need for manga. The size is a bit small at (I think) 7".
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Sage: 8" and priced at $270. No need to buy a cover ($50, or $80 with built-in battery) because an 8" device can easily fit in my foam-lined tablet case (which I used to use for the 10.1" Samsung tablet).
In the end, I opted to go for the Sage.
One Week In
After a week of use, my initial impressions and issues are:
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While zooming/panning can be a bit awkward and isn’t as smooth as on the Gulliver, it mostly works well enough.
- I had to turn off “tap to turn page”.
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Landscape view only supports showing two pages. I wish I could set landscape to default to one page zoomed to “fit to width”.
- Since the Kobo supports auto-rotate, I set it to only use portrait.
- There is no way to lock it to only one position, so the image flips upside-down if the device is tilted back enough.
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The dictionary resets to the default Kobo dictionary every single time I open it. I have to manually select the custom dictionary every time. It’d be nice if a custom dictionary could be set as the default.
- I’ve started using my smartphone with a per-page vocabulary list of my unknown words to refer to as I read. Look-ups are super-fast this way, but it also means handling a second device.
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The Gulliver isn’t necessarily heavy, but the Sage is much lighter.
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Each manga page turn does a full-screen refresh, something I typically don’t even notice. The Gulliver did a full refresh every few pages, so it was just a fact of life that ghosting would occur, but the Sage avoids this completely with its full-screen refreshes.
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I’m not a fan of the full-screen refresh on every zoom and pan, but I think I’ll get used to it. (Aside from the refresh, I feel the Gulliver handles displaying content during zooming in/out and panning better than the Sage does.)
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I like that I can finally have the sleep screen show the cover of the current/last manga read. (The Gulliver had a set of images it would randomly select between. I recently learned there’s a way to select my own sleep mode images, which would have been nice to know about years ago, but I prefer seeing a manga cover of what I’m reading.)
Photos
Kobo H2O, Gulliver, Kobo Sage
I was going to put manga on all three, but the Gulliver crashed/froze while loading the Kobo app, so I decided not to bother.
Lit up
I don’t know how often I’ll use the light. I never needed a light for the Gulliver.
The Sage also has a “blue light control” which I believe changes the light to a reddish color. I haven’t tried it out yet.
Zoomed in
Haha I have done the same with my Kobo. Even for novels, that’s the only direction I want to be reading things.
I use the light a lot on mine, if I read in bed in the evening for example!
Have you tried installing KOReader on your Kobo? I think that should let you do that.
The corruption here made me mistake (Cocoa?) and Rize for Sayaka and Kyoko until I saw Sharo in the right side panel and realised which manga it is.
That was late August.
Nearly two months later, how do I feel about the Kobo Sage, especially having come from the larger, higher-powered, more open Gulliver?
Early on, I had some issues with zooming/panning where it wouldn’t work and required a second or third try. It hardly happens now, so maybe I’ve subconsciously adapted to how to avoid it?
Sometimes, the Sage becomes less responsive, and this means the actions for bringing up the dictionary and switching dictionaries can take a few seconds each. I’d love a little more power on the device.
I suppose I could save a few seconds per lookup by learning all the kanji and vocabulary found in a Japanese dictionary.
I do enjoy the light weight of it.
I’ve pretty much gotten used to it. I don’t even notice it anymore.
But now I need to be careful for what’s on the cover when I have the e-reader sitting on my desk at work. For example, Magic Knight Rayearth volume 2’s cover is not the most word appropriate. So after reading some Rayearth on the bus in the morning, I make certain to switch over to RuriDragon volume 2 so that appears on the sleep screen.
Sometimes, I have this on without realizing it (until the bus stops under a bridge for half a minute). Drains the battery faster that way, so I need to be careful for that.
But it’s nice if want to sit on a dimly lit sofa and read a little before bedtime, rather than being in front of my computer monitor.
I still haven’t tried it yet…
Overall, I’m enjoying the Sage. A little more processing power would be nice, and there are minor nitpicks, but I am satisfied with my purchase.
Somehow I completely missed there replies here!
I haven’t tried installing KOReader, but I probably should sometime. I like Kobo’s interface, so anything that takes me away from that would need to be really good.
So the Kobo is closed system right? hmmm, i’ve had my boox since jan, hopefully I can get more than 2 year’s worth out of it. It’s pretty ace at the moment I have to say and I don’t want to do a bunch of setup again
On wallpapers, the nice thing about Boox is it has an image slideshow function, so I just take screenshots (or steal the iTunes cover art) for stuff I like and set it as part of the rotating art gallery. Makes me want a e-ink photo frame… although the colours/monochrome would be a problem