I've been posting on MobileRead for more than 6 years now (how time flies), and I'm almost hitting my 1000 post milestone!
Now I need some help from the MobileRead community.
I have two ideas for new blogs, and I am the worst at coming up with good names.
Blog #1
This will be a technical blog discussing the nitty-gritty details of ebooks.
It will be a compilation of all my ebook knowledge on various topics.
There will be in-depth technical posts such as:
The blog will also include links to things that ebook creators would find interesting:
Every post will include detailed discussion and references to my backlog of MobileRead posts.
Blog #2
This will analyze books/authors/series using a variety of methods:
and point out any other interesting stats that appear.
Words/Characters per Sentence
For example, I could compare Words per Sentence across a series:
Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series, Stormlight Archive books (Books #1-3):
Attachment 164176 Attachment 164177 Attachment 164178
Another epic fantasy, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (Books #1-3):
Attachment 164182 Attachment 164183 Attachment 164184
George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons (Book #5 of A Song of Ice and Fire):
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Or a popular science fiction book, Andy Weir's The Martian:
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Top 50 Words to Start a Sentence
Or take the first 3 books in the Wheel of Time:
And I want to preemptively thank everyone for any and all suggestions.
This community has meant so much to me over the past six years, it completely transformed my life, and I can't wait to get the ball rolling on these two projects. :thumbsup:
Now I need some help from the MobileRead community.
I have two ideas for new blogs, and I am the worst at coming up with good names.
Blog #1
This will be a technical blog discussing the nitty-gritty details of ebooks.
It will be a compilation of all my ebook knowledge on various topics.
There will be in-depth technical posts such as:
- How to Generate Higher Quality Formulas
- Finding and Correcting Hyphenation Issues
- Clean up Speckling in PDF scans
- Indexes in Ebooks
- Why Insert Covers in SVG Wrapper?
- How to Convert Greek Characters
- Why Use HTML Lang?
- PDF->EPUB Workflows
- [...]
The blog will also include links to things that ebook creators would find interesting:
- My Reviews/Summaries/Thoughts
- One of the initial posts is going to be quick summaries/reviews of all the ebookcraft 2018 talks
- Interesting developments in the ebook space (like Web Annotations).
- One of the initial posts is going to be quick summaries/reviews of all the ebookcraft 2018 talks
- Articles I find fascinating
- Useful Plugins/Tools
- What I use to clean up InDesign cruft, etc. etc.
Every post will include detailed discussion and references to my backlog of MobileRead posts.
Blog #2
This will analyze books/authors/series using a variety of methods:
- n-grams
- Word/Character Counts
- With graphs!
- Longest Sentences
- + Average Words per Sentence
- Most Common First Word
- [...]
and point out any other interesting stats that appear.
Words/Characters per Sentence
For example, I could compare Words per Sentence across a series:
Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series, Stormlight Archive books (Books #1-3):
Attachment 164176 Attachment 164177 Attachment 164178
Another epic fantasy, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (Books #1-3):
Attachment 164182 Attachment 164183 Attachment 164184
George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons (Book #5 of A Song of Ice and Fire):
Attachment 164188
Or a popular science fiction book, Andy Weir's The Martian:
Attachment 164185
Top 50 Words to Start a Sentence
Or take the first 3 books in the Wheel of Time:
Code:
Book #1 Book #2 Book #3
25586 Total 22482 Total 20586 Total
2332 The 1963 The 1718 The
2006 He 1623 I 1546 I
1204 I 1450 He 1302 He
817 Rand 868 She 931 She
694 It 670 It 617 It
625 You 663 You 586 You
594 A 607 Rand 483 And
472 She 467 And 449 A
441 And 415 A 369 If
441 They 410 They 357 But
403 But 389 If 313 There
392 If 384 There 310 Egwene
365 His 365 But 309 They
340 Mat 289 We 308 What
339 There 274 What 260 Perrin
301 What 270 No 217 No
273 We 237 Egwene 215 Mat
263 No 205 That 204 Nynaeve
245 Not 197 His 202 That
238 Perrin 190 Nynaeve 200 We
224 In 176 As 197 His
216 As 170 Not 182 Light
211 Moiraine 153 Mat 173 Her
209 When 151 Loial 169 As
205 That 146 Hurin 158 For
197 Egwene 142 Her 144 Not
194 For 141 In 141 When
160 All 138 Ingtar 135 Why
159 With 126 Even 128 Do
158 Even 126 When 121 Elayne
155 Lan 121 For 120 Perhaps
144 At 118 All 118 Even
140 Well 118 Moiraine 116 Moiraine
138 Nynaeve 118 With 106 Rand
126 Its 117 This 102 One
126 This 115 Light 102 This
122 Maybe 110 Why 101 In
119 Her 104 One 96 With
118 Some 103 Perrin 89 Burn
118 Then 101 How 85 Or
116 Why 99 At 83 How
107 One 97 Do 83 Well
107 Thom 95 Well 82 All
104 How 93 Min 78 At
103 Just 87 Yes 77 Yes
99 Master 85 Verin 68 Are
97 Im 84 Its 68 Thom
96 Light 84 Then 66 Now
95 Only 77 So 65 Some
90 Or 76 Perhaps 65 ThenThis community has meant so much to me over the past six years, it completely transformed my life, and I can't wait to get the ball rolling on these two projects. :thumbsup:
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