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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 257 of 432 12 April 2014 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 258 of 432 12 April 2014 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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:-D Those discussions on counting pages and nearly counting words make me laugh. Really, do we need to be 99% precise?
1. I think we should put time into reading, not counting. 2. We are competing against ourselves above all. Count the way you won't feel like cheating, that's the only thing that matters. This is not the Olympics, noone will come and take away your medal because of something "funny" had been found in your blood sample. 3. Too much discussion like "my 100 books are way more valuable than your 100 books" is spoiling the fun, in my opinion. 4. An example of how to count (precisely how I count to not feel like cheating): Book starts with page 12, than the page count for whole book is the last page -12. There are half pages or quarter pages left blank at the end of a chapter? I don't care unless it's a page with two lines or something like that. The book has dense text? Well another one has wider gaps between lines, it will somehow balance it out, no need to worry. What if my counting is not precise? Who cares, another book is waiting on the shelf, feeling lonely. It may sound like I'm a bit oo leisure when it comes to books but on the other hand, I may be a bit too strict with the movies but who cares. As long as I keep going and pushing myself, everything is working fine. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5394 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 259 of 432 12 April 2014 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
Youtube is good, but most of the time you can't find stuff with subtitles, if you need them. For TV shows, DramaFever and Viki are two of my favorites, although you have to watch ads (unless you want to pay for premium). If you're studying Spanish, there is rtve.es, which has tons of shows - but again, no subtitles there. I'm sure there are more out there that are more language-specific that I don't know about. :) There are also TEDx Talks in other languages, which may or may not be of interest to you. You can search by language or country. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 260 of 432 12 April 2014 at 4:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Er... that's precisely the point I was making. I said just check the back and the front. Twice I said in my post that we shouldn't get too stressed about it. But it is useful to consider the issues. However, the issue with kindle page counts is more than minor. The difference in pages is often wildly off. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 261 of 432 12 April 2014 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
When reading on my e-reader and using page size that's clearly less than one page, I often just enlarge it some more until it makes sense to count it as half a page. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5185 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 262 of 432 13 April 2014 at 12:44am | IP Logged | ||
actually started on page 1. Not amazed enough to remember what it was, but still amazed. For kindle books I like to look at the print version just because I don't trust amazon's count, but it probably doesn't matter much. We can drive ourselves crazy trying to get page counts to be "fair." Even if you take only print books you've got different page sizes, different font sizes, different spacing. Maybe you just happen to have the copy of the book with minuscule print and somebody else reads a different printing and gets more pages out of it. It's just how it is. It's even worse if you have books with pictures and/or charts(I'm thinking of a couple of mine). Just have to estimate what seems fair, because I don't know about anybody else but I'm certainly not going through and determining just what percentage is pictures.) (I know I'm agreeing with you. Just writing this out to organize my thoughts and have my opinion on record.) And another note: If you have a book with a significant amount of footnotes that are all gathered at the back don't forget to count those! It seems like the sort of thing that could be easily overlooked. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 263 of 432 13 April 2014 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
That's actually exactly why I made my posts. I am itching to get started, and being a geek, I have made a spreadsheet of the books I have, including paper books, kindle books, children's books and BD's. Too much time on my hands? Not really, I just can't help myself. ;) Also, Excel is to geeks what duct tape is to regular men (i.e. there's nothing it can't do). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 264 of 432 13 April 2014 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
Since you are in the UK, do you have Sky? If you do, it includes TV5 Monde for free. I love having it, and during the last Super Challenge I often just watched whatever was on for an hour or so. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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