Bookish. it's like redactle but for books. beta testing / bugs etc

i had to remove the accent 8(

You usually get a bit of a "vibe" off the work after a while (is it spooky? Stuffy? Romantic?) but it took me ages to get anything off this one - took me guessing until I'd revealed "I beheld his black eyes" and then I had it straight away.

I definitely play pretty differently to other people but I confess I did get a great satisfaction out of getting Crime and Punishment in only two guesses.

updates at https://acdean.github.io/bookish/index.html - be sure to hit ctrl-f5 because its a bit stubborn about using the old version otherwise.

no visual changes (oh, i really need to add a version number) but better behaviour of the guess list - click on a previous guess to re-highlight that word. re-entering a word does the same. redactle has this nailed, i am slowly getting there.

20220616 - after nearly 300 guesses I don't know what the hell this is but I like it. (Hope I haven't read it before and forgotten!)

> I don't know what the hell this is but I like it

i predict: you will regret saying this

Just gonna hide my entire response.

fucking lol! I also thought "I don't know what it is but I like it", because it seemed particularly dark and dystopian, and I enjoy dark and dystopian. But then my eyebrow started to raise when I was uncovering that the Bad Big Brother element seemed to be communal life, and I wondered if it was some old right-wingy perspective... took me a long time to work out that it was VERY much a right-wing perspective, and oh the shame of being intrigued by it. The shame, the shame.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I had a feeling that since it was so distinct but ringing no bells that it might be bad. But not so bad. So bad and wrong.

Oh well at least it wasn't mein kampf.

particularly hard because non-english name - ??? ???? - looks like it should be easy to guess but...

i think mein kampf is also in the list

Didn't get todays, I haven't read it in 30+ years; title/author formatting threw me, I thought the title was the author and the subtitle/author the title.

i did toy with making the (little known) subtitle part of the title, so you had to guess it, but am kinda pleased it threw people off anyway (sorry)

i went to test tomorrow's and found i couldn't remember it and got about 200 words in before i did remember. wouldn't've got it otherwise tbh.

(fwiw i always put a br between (title (and subtitle) and author) and (the rest of the text). but not always between book/volume/part/chapter+their names and the next thing)

<h1>title
(<h2>subtitle)
<h2>author
<br/>
<h2>part x
<h2>whatever
<p>it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times...

I don't mind really, it's more fun trying to guess without using title/author - I might start not looking at them at all at the beginning.

have up after 200 today, worried that there was a bug. turns out i just can't remember famous book titles i spent 10 minutes editing about a week ago.

That took me far longer than a book I know and like should have done!

such me as difficult because the title was a name - you weren't going to chance upon it whilst entering English words

struck me as...

I went for 250 guesses without looking at the author or title. Too hard. I guessed don at 296 but got no hits - maybe there was a space at the end, do you trim the input? it worked 30 guesses later, after I tried la and then mancha.

> maybe there was a space at the end

yeah, don't do that!

(fixed. now restricts input to a-z 0-9 and apostrophe)

also fixed something i noticed yesterday - it should scroll to the word in the guess list if you've entered it before

today's obviously by some kook, got it from the title in 68 (I never studied him in philosophy, didn't even recognise the title as one of his)

today's in 287 without ref to title or author, man riding in carriage to strange place with someone warning him of untoward happenings 'to-night'. could've been a bit quicker, i find it usually takes at least 100 boilerplate words before i can start narrowing it down though.

i know the phrase Beyond Good And Evil from the Pop Group song more than the book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JySQE4axlJY

Something up today, page won’t load correctly.

https://github.com/acdean/acdean.github.io/commit/7e9b18c3eed818163ad7553906beb297f509b8a4

fixed...

looks like i only applied the 'add " to end of line' editor macro to the bottom of the file and didn't test it.

i think 0630 was also broken but i fixed it about 7:30. i have game files til the 6th, about 50 more that need uploading. and obviously i need to test them better than i have been (or at all)

i think the big plan for this is to do 366 files and drop the year from the filenames so it's playable on a year long loop (with the last month or so playable at any time via the 'previous' list (and more if you hack the url), does that seem reasonable?). are there 366 famous books? 8)

(i can actually do new books by ripping the first chapters from amazon kindle previews, but that's often hard work. or i can use things that i own)

(renaming done. that's introduced a bug where it'll break on the 1st january because it'll think the date has gone backwards but i have 6 months to fix that. the check is only there to stop people playing future games)

New books - or canonical non public domain ones anyway - would be fun but might make it harder.

ProjGut is hardcoded at the moment, but i guess that wouldn't be too hard to change.

book suggestions welcome, but i think i'll keep it ProjGut until i run out. i envisage legal problems copying huge swathes of non-PD books.

added games up to the end of the month, roughly, and checked them all

a bug with today's, I've guessed the title (with a little help for the fourth word) but it hasn't given me the win.

disappointed I didn't get yesterday's.

Same bug for me. Got it quickly, too (a great book, if that isn't too much of a hint), so it was extra disappointing not to have the win display.

um, thanks. yes, problem.

it's an odd one, it's included the ',' in with the word so your guess has to include the comma. and yet it still reveals the word without the comma. title parsing is obviously doing something different.

it'll have to wait until this evening now because i don't think it'll be a quick fix.

yesterday's was on tv whilst i was doing the initial list or i might not've included it for obscureness reasons.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c2pwk6

btw, what font are you seeing for the main text? i get sans serif on the laptop (firefox), serif on the macbook (firefox, chrome)

serif on desktop (osx chrome), sans on phone (android chrome).

you wanna take out those quote marks round 'sans-serif'.

var tbits = t[1].split(/ /);

there's your comma problem...

done and done. thanks ledge.

(um does \W+ match digits? do i have any digits in titles?)

oh, that's broken apostrophes in titles 8(

fixed

it's redacting the 6 characters of   rather than printing a space. 8(

(that space there is an nbsp )

(font is better btw thanks)

Got today's on the strength of one of my usual starting words (after the 60-100 fillers): house. Not from the title which I try to avoid, but the ahem tell-tale capitalisation in the first para.

what can i do to hide the title? i guess it'd have to start hidden. i could put it as the actual page title, but not on the page.

I tried redactle once after this thread and thought it should have been by part of speech but maybe that would have made it too easy.

Is the code for bookish available? What language is it written in? (I am just curious about how it is constructed.)

it is very much 1999-style javascript, the only kind i know...

there's no server access past the initial page load, so ctrl-u will show you all the horrible code. and i think because it's on github.io and i don't pay them then the repo will be public as well.

My first time playing! Got it in 46 but totally used the title, am I not supposed to?

For insert, could you not include stopwords up to some cutoff or would that make it too easy? I am wondering how people do this!

(with lower counts for insertion)