The World on a Bookshelf - for Your Literary Wanderlust

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 If you speak a little bit Japanese and try to read books in Japanese you know that this is time-consuming. Check all the unknown characters and the words based on it can take a lot of time. However, with the help of AI, it can be accelerated. Assuming you want to get a word list from a book. Take a photo of the page you are on, example:   OCR these on Google Images . 監修のことば この本の使い方 農業ってなんだろう 食べ物は農業から さまざまな農業: 日本各地の農業 47都道府県特産物ガイド 日本をささえる世界の農産物・ 農業・食料なんでもランキング 1章米・麦・大豆・雑穀 米づくりの1年 米の品種 効率化が進んだ稲作 麦・大豆・そばの産地 麦・大豆・そばの栽培 麦・大豆・そばの使われ方 米がとどくまで 移り変わる米の生産管理 稲作農家のくらし 増える外国からの輸入 安全な米を求めて 新しい価値を生みだす そばを育ててみよう 2章 野菜・花 野菜の産地 根や地下茎を食べる野菜 葉や茎を食べる野菜・ 実を食べる野菜 各地に残る伝統野菜 きのこ類の栽培 野菜の品種改良 花の産地 花の栽培 野菜・花がとどくまで 流通のしくみ 野菜・花がとどくまで 卸売市場 野菜・花がとどくまで 変化する流通 農業だけでくらしていける農家をめざして 野菜農家のくらし 増える輸入野菜 おいしく安全な野菜づくり･･ 作物をきびしく育てる永田農法 トマトの新しい栽培法 3章 くだもの くだものの産地 りんごの栽培 みかんの栽培 果樹農家のくらし くだものがとどくまで 安全でおいしいくだものづくり 新しい栽培法いろいろ 4章 工芸作物 工芸作物の産地 茶の栽培 茶の加工 こんにゃくいもの栽培と加工 砂糖きび・てんさいの栽培と加工 増える工芸作物の輸入 繊維をとる工芸作物 With this text, ask Ge...

Anniversary approaching: the first novella was published 64 years ago on September 8, 1961. Perry Rhodan is the central figure of the world's longest-running science fiction series, a German space opera that has been published continuously since 1961. Initially introduced as a U.S. Space Force Major, his story begins in 1971 when he commands the first human mission to the moon. This mission, however, is not a simple flag-planting expedition but a pivotal moment that forever alters the course of human history. On the moon, Rhodan and his crew discover a crashed spaceship belonging to the Arkonides, a highly advanced but decaying alien race. This encounter grants humanity access to incredible technology, which Rhodan uses not for military conquest, but to politically unify Earth and establish a new, neutral power. From this initial act of unification, Rhodan's adventures expand from a terrestrial scale to a cosmic one. As the series progresses, the Terrans, under his leadership, ...

Karl May (1842-1912) was a highly popular German author of adventure novels. He is one of Germany's best-selling authors of all time, with an estimated 200 million copies of his books sold worldwide. He is best known for his "Travel Tales," which were written from a first-person perspective and were set in exotic locations such as the American Old West and the Orient. What He Wrote About May's most famous works are his Western novels, which feature the German character Old Shatterhand and his Apache friend, Winnetou.  His vivid descriptions convinced many readers that his stories were based on his own real-life experiences, even though he had never been to the American West or many of the other locations he wrote about when he was at the height of his career. Despite his lack of direct experience, he created a convincing vision of these places using atlases, encyclopedias, and travelogues. Later in his career, he wrote more philosophical and allegorical works. His Inf...

If you read books, do you write down the words you don't know? Searching the meanings is of course time-consuming. If you write the words clearly, there is help. Make a photo of your lists. Do you also get some daily "Word of the day" emails. Do you read them regularly? I did and did not, so my email folder is now at 2600 wotd emails. Going through 2600 emails is more than time-consuming. But there is some help available too. Make a screenshot of your inbox folder. In both cases, you get a photo of a list of words. Case 1, handwritten list Case 2, e.g. screenshot Go to Google Images and let it do OCR of your photo. Yes, it can read handwriting. Result: Nebulous - plus Trepidation - pl Undulant - plus Cloister - plus, Flagrant - plus, Apathy plus, W Validate - plus, Salient plus, 'A Depending on the number of words, I cut off the part of the lines behind the word manually or I request from Gemini/ChatGPT/... to remove the unnecessary parts. With that cleaned-up list, ...

In my analysis of the longlists of the Deutscher Buchpreis from 2005 to 2025, I found some interesting patterns. Nominee Demographics A small group of authors have been nominated multiple times : One author has been nominated six times, another five times, and five authors have received four nominations. A broader group of 18 authors were nominated three times, and 58 authors were nominated twice. Total = 83 authors. Single nominations : 220 authors. Male authors are slightly over-represented : Approximately 60% of all the authors nominated from 2005-2025 are male. No difference was made regarding to winner or shortlist or longlist. Overview