I have started learning Esperanto and have found some books I will use to read to help learning here: http://i-espero.info/files/elibroj/
Some of them sound pretty heavy (e.g. new testament) so I want to put them in an order of difficulty before I read them
I reckon length, and number of unique words will be the best way to do this (length of sentence might be good, but the implementation of that will be tricky)
here’s the code: https://github.com/fi1ingcabinet/esperanto_book_review
here’s a table of some of the result (full result in the repo):
(I multiplied number of words by number of unique words to get a level of difficulty I will broadly follow to read them)
Author | Title | num words | num unique words | num pages | num words*num unique words |
bunin, ivan | facila spiro.pdf | 1600 | 687 | 3 | 1099200 |
loira, augusto j. | cent dek tri humorajxoj copy.pdf | 5024 | 655 | 49 | 3290720 |
feldbaum, sigvard | juda sagxo.pdf | 2880 | 1175 | 51 | 3384000 |
galeski, viktor | kalejdoskopo.pdf | 3191 | 1363 | 65 | 4349333 |
luin, franko | spuroj de miaj pasxoj.pdf | 3269 | 1341 | 52 | 4383729 |
jokai, mor | la du salikoj de nagyenyed.pdf | 6788 | 2750 | 33 | 18667000 |
gogol, nikolaj | skribajxoj de frenezulo.pdf | 8381 | 2446 | 48 | 20499926 |
szilagyi, ferenc | tra mia prismo.pdf | 7040 | 2935 | 83 | 20662400 |
z., hasse | jakobo k.c..pdf | 12764 | 3227 | 57 | 41189428 |
codjo, jean | dialogo inter surduloj.pdf | 13079 | 3207 | 58 | 41944353 |
schwerin, p.e. | gaja leganto per esperanto.pdf | 11607 | 4565 | 67 | 52985955 |
lagerkvist | mariamne.pdf | 15963 | 3324 | 66 | 53061012 |
schwartz, raymond | la stranga butiko.pdf | 11775 | 4567 | 130 | 53776425 |
dickens, charles | la batalo de l’vivo.pdf | 29975 | 5510 | 106 | 165162250 |
sierosevski, vaclav | la fundo de l’mizero.pdf | 28875 | 5732 | 111 | 165511500 |
vallienne, henri | kastelo de prelongo.pdf | 153271 | 20428 | 712 | 3131019988 |
kardec, allan | la libro de la spiritoj.pdf | 242325 | 15130 | 475 | 3666377250 |
wennergren, bertilo | plena manlibro de esperanta gramatiko.pdf | 257667 | 24767 | 711 | 6381638589 |
Also here is some resources: gutenberg.org/browse/languages/eo