Spanish reading material (books?)

[reddragon]

I feel I am now ready to read some books to increase my spanish vocabulary - anyone suggest a good set of books to start off with ?

Also I noticed some of you track how many pages you read, is it literally just counting how many pages you have read or are you using some type of app

cheers

[DaveBee]

I feel I am now ready to read some books to increase my spanish vocabulary - anyone suggest a good set of books to start off with ?

Also I noticed some of you track how many pages you read, is it literally just counting how many pages you have read or are you using some type of app

cheers

1. There's a Swiss website, Podclub.ch, that has podcasts + transcriptions in various languages, aimed at language learners. Their spanish podcast is called Alicia: A mi aire, you might like to try that.

2. I think the super challenge (see language challenges forum) is 5,000 pages, so that would be pages read.

[Whodathunkitz]

I think a lot depends on your interests. I like factual, history. I'm no longer a big reader of fiction in my L1 (English).

I don't have any specialist bookshops near me, library not great at first glance (a few Spanish kids' books, but I need to have a proper look at the biggest branches). I don't have much money! So books are problematic for me at the moment, I'd prefer to own them so I could annotate.

I use the readlang website which has music and other videos with text, mostly A1-A2 plus short to long texts A1-C2.

Short being 100-500 words, useful for warming up, finding a comfortable level, colloquial and expressions.

Long texts exceeding 100,000 words (400 pages).

I was doing well with the Spanish version of Pride and Prejudice (100,000+ words) but life seems to have thrown a spanner in the works at the moment. Currently says I've done "346 texts containing a total of 161449 words", but it only counts completed ones, so another 20,000+ from partially completed texts.

It counts the words you read, I divide by 250 to get a page count (this was one of the questions).

If you have the text (eg Guttenberg, purchased) you can upload it - I've done this for some 19th Century history novels from Guttenberg and I've shared them (check legality).

Some of the LONG ones that are there (mostly old) as examples:-

title,level, words

Spanish Tales for Beginners C1 83,800
Filipinas Dentro De Cien Años (Estudio Politico-Social) C2 13,900
El prisionero de Zenda B2 54,200
Don Quixote C2 387,000
Spanish Tales for Beginners C1 83,700
Más de la mitad de los jóvenes latinoamericanos tropieza con las matemáticas C2 850
Cómo ganar amigos e influir sobre las personas B2 78,600
A First Spanish Reader C1 41,800
El Mago de Oz B2 30,200
Las Aventuras De Sherlock Holmes B2 105,000
Viaje al centro de la Tierra - Julio Verne B2 71,400
El arte de la felicidad C1 75,600
El Signo De Los Cuatro B2 42,600
Cómo suprimir las preocupaciones y disfrutar de la vida B2 101,000
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Trafalgar, by Benito Pérez Galdós C1 54,300