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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I have run it on my library, and came to some weird conclusions.
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Is this "Flesh Reading Ease" score of any use to determine if a book is difficult?
I have a feeling that it isn't, because it only takes total sentences, words, length of senteces and number of syllables into account, assuming that a text with longer senteces and longer words is more difficult. That certainly does not need to be the case. A text can have very short sentences and words, but if it's written in 17th century English, it may be very difficult to read.
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I have my doubts too - out of interest I've just run it on a few books and it's giving a score of 74 to Lautreamont's les chants de Maldoror - so according to the scale an 11 to 13 year old should understand it
which I somehow doubt but then I have now idea how (if?) it can work things out on non-English books. Currently running it on the rest of my library just for kicks
will take some time though...