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Re:Show HN: All Books, All Languages – Read short stories an... by mreichhoff on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:02PM (#43552512)
cool! how did you determine the CEFR levels of the stories?

Minor, but I also see a few placeholders like "Why {{appName}}?"

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Re:Show HN: All Books, All Languages – Read short stories an... by Falimonda on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:00PM (#43553046)
I generated category levels and subcategories first. These are associated to a CEFR level and all that bundled into the story generator.

While it's currently decent for the purpose of language learning, I do need to fix consistency across longer stories because a purely sequential generation suffers from consistency in plot details.

The idea was always to offer real books in the public domian, but I decided to release it with generated stories so I could begin gather feedback on UI/UX.

Thanks for calling that out! I'll look into it.

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