How to handle grading and reviews?

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@sadgremlin

how can 1Q84 be 2 levels higher than Norwegian Wood?

1Q84 is more than three times as long as Norwegian Wood… Personally I think length of a book does figure into difficulty ratings.

[暁のルナ]

@mitrac

Maybe just the first one listed or the first one you read? And it’s OK to talk about the general character of the magazine, I wouldn’t see it necessary to go into each series

Looking over my reviews, when I’ve left them, it’s apparently been 1-2 sentences to comment about oddities. Anyway this is probably a こっちの問題 sorta thing… I don’t have any meaningful generalities to say about something I read every month. This is probably my closest: 暁のルナ's review of 百合姫2025年9月号 | Natively . I might try doing things like listing the level distribution in the future tho - particularly since I already looked it up for the current ones I’m reading

Yurihime on Natively is a mess. There’s no Amazon series page, and the titles and author are listed inconsistently there. So 2023-2024 are in a Natively series. 2025 are not in a series, and only some of them are approved, so most don’t seem to appear in search afaict. Sometimes you have to search 百合姫, other times コミック百合姫 to find what you’re looking for. So the stuff about rating & reviewing the first vol or two falls a little flat

@mitrac

Based on the Harta club, I would say most people don’t read everything, although some do. For me it was helpful to think of it like a candy box and I don’t have to eat them all (or at once)

That’s a great metaphor, and basically how I approach it

@mitrac

I think more people would get into the amazing world of Japanese manga magazines if they knew it’s ok not to read it all and there were more reviews talking about how people get into them

I’m skeptical, but who knows… I’m tempted to ask around/make a post here… But I really don’t need another thing to do lol

Thx for all the feedback

[mitrac]

@暁のルナ

Yurihime on Natively is a mess. There’s no Amazon series page, and the titles and author are listed inconsistently there. So 2023-2024 are in a Natively series. 2025 are not in a series, and only some of them are approved, so most don’t seem to appear in search afaict. Sometimes you have to search 百合姫, other times コミック百合姫 to find what you’re looking for. So the stuff about rating & reviewing the first vol or two falls a little flat

Ah that’s too bad. It is a problem for these. Harta is in a more fortunate position because I seem to remember whoever got Harta on here in the first place contacted Brandon to arrange it to be collected manually (as in, they collected Amazon links, and he put them on in a series). There’s also no Amazon series page, so now once a year I send Brandon a list of links in order and he adds them manually. Maybe something like that is possible, but it sounds like some manual work unfortunately to sort out the existing Natively links and get them in order. And it really only works for Harta because no one is reading them as they are published so far. I don’t think Brandon wants to do that manually every month. Hopefully some users will get some admin rights at some point so we can take up that kind of thing

Now I get your question a bit better, I guess that means you’re rating each one separately.

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@mitrac

There’s also no Amazon series page, so now once a year I send Brandon a list of links in order and he adds them manually.

Ahhh that’s smart

@mitrac

And it really only works for Harta because no one is reading them as they are published so far. I don’t think Brandon wants to do that manually every month.

Yeah, I stopped putting in requests earlier this year, cuz A - @brandon wasn’t around for a while, and B - I figured it’s annoying to do every month, especially for a (then) single reader

@mitrac

Now I get your question a bit better, I guess that means you’re rating each one separately.

I also meant it in general: “if one has a magazine or book where the difficulty level varies significantly, how should they rate it?”… Could apply to a lot of stuff