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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Yolina determined that the Kindle User Guide is about the same difficulty as The Silmarillion.
George R.R. Martin's "A Dance With Dragons" is actually easier than your fairy tale bundle.
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Yes, this might be well-known, but those reading level algorithms can be misleading at best. To be fair, they were developed to be doable by hand before general-purpose computers were common. A reading-level algorithm which doesn't even take vocabulary into account is still bound to be inaccurate.
The existing ones also place a heavy penalty on long words without considering their difficulty. "Watermelon" and "invisible" are words with which any child is familiar, still they will strongly affect the reading level according to Flesch & Co. Abominations like my previous sentence should really be taken out and shot, but it would only be marked as difficult because of the words "watermelon" and "invisible".
Edit: and because of "familiar". This is a difficult issue
