On 6/26/06, Scott Lawton <scott_bulkmail at productarchitect.com> wrote:
While I agree that it would not be worth adding readability score if it had much impact on these and other worthy goals,
But if it doesn't, then those goals aren't reasons _for_ adding it.
There are lots and lots of cool things that could be done with the catalog.
Even in the context of the above, the scores would provide a great starting
We could start with the results of stripping the header and running wc on it. That strikes me at least as useful as this result. Also, the ten or twelve most common words in the book after stripping the ten or twelve most common words in the English language. -- I'd like to see that too, word count is perhaps a little more meaningful to your average reader than size in kilobytes (which is displayed? and useful to know as well, of course) point for
being improved with manual cataloging and literacy labeling.
I don't think so. It's downright useless for manual cataloging, as it only handles that one dimension. I don't think it will help literacy labeling much, either, which is best done manually. -- Certainly wouldn't be useless, if you are going to catalogue/tag things manually.
Don't let the perfect stand in the way of the good.
But I don't think having these numbers anywhere prominent is good. Right now our pages only have a few pieces of important information; minutia like this should go to a page linked to a page linked only from the book page, which we can fill with various stats to our hearts content. -- Shouldn't be next to the title, but an index page of all of them would be cool. As the texts stand now lots of them have pages of mind numbing legalese, already, not sure two lines of numbers matter in all of that. It also seems a little weird to have some proprietary reading level numbers on the system, instead of the Fog index or the Flesch-Kincaid Readability tests. It feels like an advertisement. -- That was the two I was trying to think of before, thanks! :) This is clipped from the 'Voyages of Doctor Dolittle' Readability Compared with books in All Categories Fog Index: 8.3 16% are easier 84% are harder Flesch Index: 74.6 11% are easier 89% are harder Flesch-Kincaid Index: 6.5 17% are easier 83% are harder Complexity (learn more) Complex Words: 6% 8% have fewer 92% have more Syllables per Word: 1.4 7% have fewer 93% have more Words per Sentence: 14.8 39% have fewer 61% have more Number of Characters: 387,512 47% have fewer 53% have more Words: 72,671 55% have fewer 45% have more Sentences: 4,912 64% have fewer 36% have more I suppose with wc etc. you could have percentiles of book by 'length' etc. which are relevant to people, too. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au