Readability Score Distributions Across Project Gutenberg: A 2026 Extension
In 2007, Reck & Reck computed seven readability measures for 15,511 Project Gutenberg texts and characterised the distribution of each across the corpus. This work extends that study to the present corpus — 60,787 English-prose works, the seven measures, lexical and structural features, lexicon-based sentiment, and emotional arcs — with author metadata drawn from Wikidata and an interactive tool for exploring any author against the whole distribution.