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So, I was able to make-up the metric for book complexity. Basically, I use an average between 2 metrics: 1. one taken from http://readable.io 2. one is the average complexity of the words (compared against the table of top 50K English books), normalization is based on min and max values over the boo...

tovarisch : I think that's a very good idea. Thank you. It would even make sense to use some machine learning to build a classifier, using learning materials for schools as a training set. Let's see if I could do this. (... Unless this is an overkill )

tovarisch, Peter : thank you for your insights. I do agree this is a bit primitive and only one feature of the text. Quick googling brought me to this website, which looks quite promising: https://readable.io/text/ Here's the results: Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level | Gunning Fog Index | Coleman-Liau In...

VfkaB : thank you for your advice watekinslet : Thank you for your kind words. I live in Australia and hear every day how natives speak and realize that I'll never be able to speak like that. :cry: My question is more general though. I feel comfortable enough to read classical books in English (wit...

re Jules Verne Yes, I may be mistaken with the publication date. However, regarding the translation, here's a quote from the librivox page: " English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991" , and here's a quote from PG: "Translated from the Original French by F. P. Walter&...

Availle, thank you for the list. I think it sounds reasonable to go through the class program. I'll download the texts and then will try rank each by the number of unique words and their complexity (popularity?) and see how this works. Annise, thank you, I didn't know about these works. I'll have a ...

Hi. My name is Boris. This is my first post on the forum :clap: , but I'm a long-time librivox user. I guess that I have listened more than 20 books already. Thank you! Thank you so much!!! :) I adore English language and literature, but, unfortunately, I'm not a native speaker. However, I do believ...