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peterromer · 12-17-2016, 07:30 AM

Hi Jimmy and David.

Thanks again for your answers.

I have now tried to compare some other books and with some other tools.

For instance...

With the plugin Jean-Paul-Sarte's Nausea gives me 90 in FK Readability Score as an Epub file (with deleted cover and index) and 87 if I convert the file into txt-format.

When I use http://flesh.sourceforge.net I get the score 76.6.

When I use https://www.online-utility.org/engli...nd_improve.jsp I get the score 73.06

When I use http://www.checktext.org I get the score 74.6

The plugin does seem to rank books that is hard to read lower on the scale. I think this example with Saatre and the examples from yesterday with Murakami and Bukowski proves that. Plus when I put in Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum I got 60 and that book has some extremely long sentences.

But it seems to measure the Flesch-Kincaid readability too high compared to other tools.

Changing the column to floating did help the decimal issue. Thanks!

12-17-2016, 07:30 AM	#926
peterromer Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2016 Device: pc	Hi Jimmy and David. Thanks again for your answers. I have now tried to compare some other books and with some other tools. For instance... With the plugin Jean-Paul-Sarte's Nausea gives me 90 in FK Readability Score as an Epub file (with deleted cover and index) and 87 if I convert the file into txt-format. When I use http://flesh.sourceforge.net I get the score 76.6. When I use https://www.online-utility.org/engli...nd_improve.jsp I get the score 73.06 When I use http://www.checktext.org I get the score 74.6 The plugin does seem to rank books that is hard to read lower on the scale. I think this example with Saatre and the examples from yesterday with Murakami and Bukowski proves that. Plus when I put in Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum I got 60 and that book has some extremely long sentences. But it seems to measure the Flesch-Kincaid readability too high compared to other tools. Changing the column to floating did help the decimal issue. Thanks! Last edited by peterromer; 12-17-2016 at 07:33 AM.