Maybe something like “how many hours have you spent reading” or something also, because I probably come in at “zero reading” on these scales because I tend to read articles, parts of non-fiction books, blogs, etc.
Maybe it’s just me. I haven’t even read that much, but I have no idea how many hours I’ve spent reading. If you suggest what hour ranges to include for the poll options I’ll create one though.
Yeah I was gonna say. Full routing one visual novel vs. playing a single route of another can be the difference of 70+ hours. Like me playing vol 0 of Neko para would probably take a fifteenth of the time it would take to fully completed hoshiori. Maybe even less honestly. It’s like comparing reading the giving tree to reading all of the GoT books.
Maybe you could add another poll for “non-books” and do that one by hours? Or perhaps ‘days where some reading was done’??! Or a non-fiction one (any format) and make the ‘Japanese books’ poll more explicitly for fiction…
I don’t know but I’d also struggle to estimate hours
For a daily estimate one, 15 minute chunks maybe? 15 mins or less, 15-30 min, 30-45 min, 45-60 min etc
However you’d actually do the number so there’s no overlap or whatever.
Unrelated, but bookmeter.com really helped me count how many books I have read so far. I would have completely underestimated my count a few weeks ago.
(Speaking of which, my count is 21 fiction vs 4 non-fiction)
What counts as ‘one graded reader’, by the way? I was doing it by volume, but people may answer differently from each other if you don’t make it explicit. Like they might answer for the individual stories they read (the ones I have include five stories per volume, packaged as separate little books within a holder), or by level.
I have a bunch of Japanese textbooks and dictionaries but haven’t bought actual reading material yet. Most of my reading resources were onilne so I read manga and web novels chapter-wise and not volume-wise.
So I’ll just say 10 chapters is about the same as 1 volume.
As for visual novels, I can’t say I read them fully in Japanese.
I almost finished Aiyoku no Eustia (all routes except final route) but relying a bunch of tools for translation. (text hooker, Mecab, rikai-kun, sometimes even Google Translate)
I finished one route in the localized version of Wagamama Highspec. Some Sekai Project visual novels have the option to show the Japanese text along with the English text which is really helpful.
Windows 10 Fall Creators update killed text hookers so I haven’t touched any visual novels lately.
I’m completely ignorant about visual novels but what is err good (?) about them?
(That came out very wrong, but I have no idea how to formulate it better).
My (dumb) image is that it’s a kind of “chose your own story” book, but in a computer form… Am I wrong, or very wrong?
You’re not wrong. Part of the appeal (I think) to a lot of people is that they’re reaaaaaaaaaaly long. Like 10-15 hours is considered pretty short. I personally like a quality over quantity thing, but if you don’t care about writing quality then they’re basically like endless entertainment
