As it is not yet possible to add JPDB links to Natively (crossing fingers that this will be a feature one day, vote for it here) and as it can be pretty hard to search JPDB, I am starting this thread to write down links to JPDB decks that I have found.
And as this is a community, this post is also a wiki, so feel free to add any decks you have found
Thanks for making this, I was just thinking about how ridiculous Jpdb’s deck searching feature is. I added a couple decks, some of them have Natively book clubs so I hope it’s okay to link those.
To pick one obvious example, there’s no way to search by author: I know for instance that there are several books by 赤川次郎 on there, but the only way I found them was by paging through the entire list of novels.
Nor is there any kind of “discovery” beyond “look through the whole list” or “look at the changelog for new additions” (speaking of which, there haven’t been any new additions since last June): no “people who added deck X also added these decks”, no rating of books, no “these are in the same genre”, or any other way to find books it might be worth reading because they have a deck. (This would matter a lot less if jpdb’s coverage was better and you could start with the book and confidently expect to find the deck by searching by title; but the limited selection means you almost always want to start with “find some book I might like that has a deck”.)
I resorted to doing a scan through the whole list bookmarking all the books that looked vaguely like I might possibly want to read them someday.
Fair enough. My use case has always been “Do they have this book?” so it’s been sufficient for me .
I don’t really see jpdb as a discovery site; or wouldn’t really start a book just because it has a deck there I guess? It does have the “similar difficulty books”, though, given it’s features are probably built around difficulty level. You could say it’s just a DataBase .
Oh, and there is a changelog, although it’s a bit of a mess with everything: https://jpdb.io/changelog
I’ve asked for the export API for lists years and it’s still hidden somewhere; I’ve basically given up.
Isn’t the whole idea that you learn vocab based on the books you’re going to read, though? If you don’t read at least some books with decks then I feel like it kind of degenerates into a generic SRS that’s probably worse than Anki.
There are many ways to do it. I have tried the of learning before but I disliked it. Like you can sort by frequency and learn the most frequent word ahead. But sometimes people have one conversation about let’s say a crane for many pages, and that’s how you end up learning crane ahead of time. I prefer to add the words I have read after the fact and just have them in my review queues.
At least I’ve always found everything pretty quick.
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