patrickwilken wrote:wasted a bit of time working out how to convert the entire Harry Potter book I started reading into Anki.
Important point, it didn't take long to make the cards, with TL sentences and audio.
So it shouldn't bother you to remove them, since you can get a lot more where they came from.
patrickwilken wrote:I have 7028 cards.
So I suspect you have all the top 500+ words in Spanish included.
BTW from experience I can tell you a lot those cards will be dross you can suspend after one look. (Suspend is quicker than delete BTW) For example I suspect you'll find some of these duplicated.
"Hello Harry"
"Hello Hermione"
"Hello Ron"
"OK"
"What?"
"Who?"
My point being I estimate about 20% of those cards will be of no use to you, because you already know them, or they are duplicates. So be sure to suspend then straight-away. Also, change your settings so that "leeches" are suspended. Leeches are cards which you consistently mark bad because you can't remember them. I automatically suspend mine after 10 viewings. Because it just isn't sinking in, and by then I'm sick of the card.
As you progress you'll begin to see that some cards are not exact duplicates, but have the same meaning and you can simply remove one of them. For example:
"Which way did he go?"
"Did you see which way he went?"
So unless there is something useful in knowing the difference between these to types of sentences then suspend them.
patrickwilken wrote:If I do 10 cards a day it will only take me a couple of years to finish the book.
You'd think that, however, you'll remove (suspend) probably 25% of the book, a lot of them you'll mark "Easy" and they'll get pushed further and further back in your reviews.
What you will find, and this is the point where people believe anki is a torture device, is at some point anki will just keep giving you difficult ones! You'll struggle to remember and it will seem like a chore. But if you think about it, the whole point of SRS is to weed out the easy ones and get you learning the hard stuff. So it isn't until the point where it gets painful that it actually becomes useful. But this is the point most people give up.