[Tex2002ans]

I've been posting on MobileRead for more than 6 years now (how time flies), and I'm almost hitting my 1000 post milestone!

Now I need some help from the MobileRead community.

I have two ideas for new blogs, and I am the worst at coming up with good names.

Blog #1

This will be a technical blog discussing the nitty-gritty details of ebooks.

It will be a compilation of all my ebook knowledge on various topics.

There will be in-depth technical posts such as:

• How to Generate Higher Quality Formulas
  
  • https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=2634159
• Finding and Correcting Hyphenation Issues
• Clean up Speckling in PDF scans
• Indexes in Ebooks
  
  • https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...43#post3474243
• Why Insert Covers in SVG Wrapper?
  
  • https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...60#post3661160
• How to Convert Greek Characters
• Why Use HTML Lang?
• PDF->EPUB Workflows
  
  • https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=234146
• [...]

The blog will also include links to things that ebook creators would find interesting:

• My Reviews/Summaries/Thoughts
  
  • One of the initial posts is going to be quick summaries/reviews of all the ebookcraft 2018 talks
    
  • Interesting developments in the ebook space (like Web Annotations).
    
• Articles I find fascinating
  
  • When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks
• Useful Plugins/Tools
  
  • What I use to clean up InDesign cruft, etc. etc.

Every post will include detailed discussion and references to my backlog of MobileRead posts.

Blog #2

This will analyze books/authors/series using a variety of methods:

• n-grams
• Word/Character Counts
  
  • With graphs!
• Longest Sentences
  
  • + Average Words per Sentence
• Most Common First Word
• [...]

and point out any other interesting stats that appear.

Words/Characters per Sentence

For example, I could compare Words per Sentence across a series:

Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series, Stormlight Archive books (Books #1-3):



Another epic fantasy, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (Books #1-3):



George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons (Book #5 of A Song of Ice and Fire):



Or a popular science fiction book, Andy Weir's The Martian:



Top 50 Words to Start a Sentence

Or take the first 3 books in the Wheel of Time:

Book #1			Book #2			Book #3
25586	Total		22482	Total		20586	Total
2332	The		1963	The		1718	The
2006	He		1623	I		1546	I
1204	I		1450	He		1302	He
817	Rand		868	She		931	She
694	It		670	It		617	It
625	You		663	You		586	You
594	A		607	Rand		483	And
472	She		467	And		449	A
441	And		415	A		369	If
441	They		410	They		357	But
403	But		389	If		313	There
392	If		384	There		310	Egwene
365	His		365	But		309	They
340	Mat		289	We		308	What
339	There		274	What		260	Perrin
301	What		270	No		217	No
273	We		237	Egwene		215	Mat
263	No		205	That		204	Nynaeve
245	Not		197	His		202	That
238	Perrin		190	Nynaeve		200	We
224	In		176	As		197	His
216	As		170	Not		182	Light
211	Moiraine	153	Mat		173	Her
209	When		151	Loial		169	As
205	That		146	Hurin		158	For
197	Egwene		142	Her		144	Not
194	For		141	In		141	When
160	All		138	Ingtar		135	Why
159	With		126	Even		128	Do
158	Even		126	When		121	Elayne
155	Lan		121	For		120	Perhaps
144	At		118	All		118	Even
140	Well		118	Moiraine	116	Moiraine
138	Nynaeve		118	With		106	Rand
126	Its		117	This		102	One
126	This		115	Light		102	This
122	Maybe		110	Why		101	In
119	Her		104	One		96	With
118	Some		103	Perrin		89	Burn
118	Then		101	How		85	Or
116	Why		99	At		83	How
107	One		97	Do		83	Well
107	Thom		95	Well		82	All
104	How		93	Min		78	At
103	Just		87	Yes		77	Yes
99	Master		85	Verin		68	Are
97	Im		84	Its		68	Thom
96	Light		84	Then		66	Now
95	Only		77	So		65	Some
90	Or		76	Perhaps		65	Then

And I want to preemptively thank everyone for any and all suggestions.

This community has meant so much to me over the past six years, it completely transformed my life, and I can't wait to get the ball rolling on these two projects.