Hmm. Wilhelmine's paragraphs are pretty long, so it would either be completely useless to you interleaved (as I discovered Horowksi was), or I would have to manually insert arbitrary paragraph breaks and then run it through Google Translate, because I am *not* going to do paragraph alignment again. :P Also, the English copy I have of her memoirs is a terrible quality scan, which OCR would really struggle with.
I vote for you holding off on her memoirs until we do French, when you can deal with separate files. You have Voigt to practice your German on now, and you can read Wives and Lehndorff with me in English (and maybe some Lehndorff in German), and if I can talk you into it, Oster's Wilhelmine bio in English. Come oooonnnn, she's your fave, it's fic research, we'll talk about her together, it'll be great! ;)
Besides, we'll go slowly while we practice our German on texts we don't need to talk so much about.
Anyway, I'm 4-5 pages from the end of AW, so I've put the interleaved Wives text into the the library. I'll be reading Wives at the same time as Sons, and if I finish Sons first, then either Heimwärts or the Wilhelmine memoirs.
When we finish Wives, then we can discuss whether we want to do Lehndorff next, or whether I should do Oster and Krackow.
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Date: 2020-09-07 10:18 pm (UTC)I vote for you holding off on her memoirs until we do French, when you can deal with separate files. You have Voigt to practice your German on now, and you can read Wives and Lehndorff with me in English (and maybe some Lehndorff in German), and if I can talk you into it, Oster's Wilhelmine bio in English. Come oooonnnn, she's your fave, it's fic research, we'll talk about her together, it'll be great! ;)
Besides, we'll go slowly while we practice our German on texts we don't need to talk so much about.
Anyway, I'm 4-5 pages from the end of AW, so I've put the interleaved Wives text into the the library. I'll be reading Wives at the same time as Sons, and if I finish Sons first, then either Heimwärts or the Wilhelmine memoirs.
When we finish Wives, then we can discuss whether we want to do Lehndorff next, or whether I should do Oster and Krackow.