Oct 14, 2024 21:00:00

Summary of GIGAZINE article rankings of the top 100 best-selling articles on Amazon, 3rd quarter 2024

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The top image is of the Tianjin Binhai Library in

Tianjin , China.

Tianjin Binhai Library is a public library that opened in 2017 and was designed by Rotterdam -based architecture firm MVRDV in collaboration with local Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute. The five-storey library covers a total area of 33,700 square metres and features curved spaces and a large central sphere that can also be used as an auditorium for 110 people.

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GIGAZINE releases various manga, books, and articles as e-books not only on its website but also on Amazon's Kindle store. All e-books are eligible for Kindle Unlimited , so Kindle Unlimited users can read them for free. This time, we have compiled a ranking of the ' Top 100 Most Read Articles in Q3 2024 ' based on digitized versions of GIGAZINE articles.

◆1: 21 books that investment guru Warren Buffett recommends as must-reads

◆2: Top 150 sci-fi movies of all time

◆3: Amazon Japan announces its '100 best novels of all time' based on past performance

◆4: What are some good textbooks and lecture videos for learning computer science without going to college?

◆5: Elon Musk recommends '11 books you should read'

◆6: Interview with mechanical designer Junichiro Tamamori of 'Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love': What are the secrets of the chimney, third bridge, and 'Wave Motion Barrier'?

◆7: We asked residents of Kyoto University's Yoshida Dormitory, Japan's oldest currently active student dormitory, 'What is the real reason they are being evicted from the dormitory?'

◆8: 99 books recommended by Alan Kay, the father of personal computing

◆9: Interview with original author Yasuhiro Nightow and director Kenji Muto about the anime 'TRIGUN STAMPEDE' - 'Trigun has been boosted, refined, and condensed without being reduced'

◆10: Interview with Owara Sumito, the author of 'Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!', reveals that 'it didn't matter if the three main characters were different'

◆11: An interview with series composer Enjoe Toh of 'Godzilla SP [Singular Point]': How was Godzilla's first 13-episode film created?

◆12: Here's a list of the 100 most influential books and documents in the world:

◆13: I tried taking photos and movies with the iPhone 15 Pro Max camera, which can shoot 5x telephoto and up to 48 megapixels

◆14: Review of the 'Pomera DM250' - a lightweight and compact device that you can open and start writing right away, and that also allows for easy file sharing on your smartphone

◆15: An interview with Yamashiro Fuuga, storyboard artist and director of episode 4 of 'Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!', who splits the movies he sees into frames to use as his own directing materials

◆16: Why the technique 'practical writing' used in Kubrick's films changed the history of film

◆17: Tips for choosing 'easy-to-read colors' when creating graphs and visualizing data

◆18: I tried out the 'Best Take' and 'Audio Eraser Magic' features of the Google Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 8, which let you experience the amazing power of AI, and I also checked out the evolution of the camera from the Pixel 7

◆19: An interview with Shogo Sugitani [Human Plastic Model], the author of 'Pompo the Movie Lover,' who says he is 'better at drawing the equivalent of a book in one go' than serializing it.

◆20: An interview with Fukui Harutoshi and Minagawa Yuka in 'The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choices in the Year 2202,' a dense work that condenses 52 episodes of the anime into 120 minutes; how do the 'Astro Warriors' work?

◆21: What do Oxford University philosophers think is the “way to live a happy life”?

◆22: Interview with director Hirao Takayuki of the animated film 'Pompo the Movie-loving Girl.' How did he make a film about 'a minority striking back at the majority' in a way that would resonate with the majority?

◆23: A famous American university publishes a list of books recommended for college students. What kind of books should college students read?

◆24: We tried out 'Lit-Parrot,' a library that makes it easy to fine-tune large-scale language models like GPT using custom datasets, on Google Cloud Platform.

◆25: Interview with director Yusaku Matsumoto of the film 'Winny' portrays the developer behind the file-sharing software, Isamu Kaneko

◆26: Standard Ebooks, an overseas edition of Aozora Bunko, lets you read classic masterpieces from Holmes to Aristotle for free

◆27: A review by an Apple Watch beginner who used the Apple Watch Ultra 2 for a few days

◆28: Interview with Nanami Kamon, director of the Jujutsu Kaisen production of the movie 'Onmyoji 0': 'Jujutsu Kaisen has become entertainment that adults can enjoy too'

◆29: Interview with Sorcerous Stabber Orphen's Journey author, Yoshinobu Akita, asking about the new anime for the series' 25th anniversary and stories related to his writing

◆30: 'How to Read a Book' is a collection of tips for getting the most information from a book in a limited amount of time.

◆31: A review of the combined techniques of 'ControlNet' and 'Stable Diffusion', which allow you to quickly generate your favorite illustration images by specifying the pose and composition.

◆32: What are the “34 prompts” that will help you when you get stuck writing or want to add color to your story?

◆33: 'FAN GATHERING 'Hathaway's Flash' Heirs to GUNDAM' report reveals the secrets of 'Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway's Flash'

◆34: Interview with Mari Motohashi, who was in charge of storyboarding and directing the first episode of the anime 'Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!' The character of Asakusa is impressively brought out through the action of eating zunda mochi

◆35: Interview with Shiro Yamazaki, subtitle science supervisor for the film 'TENET': What are the key points to enjoying the film?

◆36: A data visualization expert explains how to choose colors that are easy for humans to distinguish intuitively in your design

◆37: What is your “morning routine” that enhances your creativity?

◆38: How to disable the 18+ safety filter of the image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion'

◆39: How to overcome procrastination with the simple '2-minute rule'

◆40: A summary of the 2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners, awarded for fascinating and thought-provoking research, including the 16th consecutive Japanese winner

◆41: What are the “must-read books of 2023” chosen by British economic magazine “The Economist”?

◆42: An interview with Michel Ocelot, director of 'Dilili: A Time Travel in Paris,' which realistically captures the beautiful city of Paris in the film

◆43: Amazon's reviews for girls' school swimsuits are outrageous

◆44: Bill Gates announces 'the best book he has read in the last 10 years.' What is his 'everlasting favorite'?

◆45: What improvements has NovelAI, the popular app that can generate ultra-high-precision illustrations, made over the original Stable Diffusion?

◆46: An open source plugin that enables image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion' to be used in Krita has been released

◆47: I tried playing 'Idol Showdown,' a free fan-made 2D fighting game where Hololive VTubers compete for the title of strongest.

◆48: Interview with Director Masaaki Yuasa of 'Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!': How he created the work that he calls 'an amazing anime'

◆49: How to create a Bluesky account & how to use it like this: It's very similar to Twitter, so it's a great option for switching or moving

◆50: If I take the satellite internet 'Starlink' kit I bought at Costco to another location, can I communicate? A review of what I actually tried

◆51: Interview with Director Sato Atsuki of 'The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: The Choice of the Year 2202 A.D.' The BGM for the 'Fleet Assemble' scene is newly recorded to recreate the experience of the previous series.

◆52: 'Vividl' allows you to download videos from YouTube, Nico Nico Douga, Twitter, Instagram, etc. in one go and convert them to MP3 for free. It has the strongest downloader 'yt-dlp' built-in and is easy to use even for beginners.

◆53: Five books to help you understand the 'assassinations' carried out around the world

◆54: Google now supports 'Passkey,' a feature that lets you log in without a password, so I tried it out on my iPhone and Android smartphone

◆55: 10 books that ruined the world but should never have been written

◆56: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, a Nintendo Switch game that lets you explore not only the land of Hyrule but also the skies and underground, is attractive for its 'fun to create' and 'freedom far beyond the previous game.'

◆57: An interview with series composer Harutoshi Fukui and director Kenji Yasuda of 'Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage'; a director who is 'not from the Yamato generation'

◆58: Finally released Apple Watch Series 9 with S9 chip and watchOS 10 Photo review and setup summary

◆59: An interview with Reiko Yoshida, series composer and scriptwriter for the movie 'Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction'

◆60: What has evolved in the Apple Watch Series 9 with watchOS 10 and the S9 chip? I actually tried wearing it for a week.

◆61: Creativity is more important than 10,000 hours of deliberate practice

◆62: I tried using 'stable-diffusion-videos', which can create movies using the image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion'

◆63: Bill Gates announces '5 books to read this summer'

◆64: I tried out various photos with the Xperia 1 V, which is said to be capable of taking photos on par with a full-size digital camera.

◆65: SysMocap is a free motion capture technology that can project face, hand, and whole-body movements onto a 3D avatar in real time.

◆66: Amazon has released the large tablet 'Fire Max 11' with an 11-inch 2K LCD display for around 30,000 yen, so we checked out its performance

◆67: Customize the giant mecha freely by assembling it in 'Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon'

◆68: 'Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Clash! Rakuga Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes' Director Naohiko Kyogoku and Producer Keiichi Kondo interview: 'We want to create a story that children will be proud of'

◆69: 'RGB & HSL' visually shows the relationship between the values of 'RGB (red, green, blue)' and 'HSL (hue, saturation, brightness)' that represent the color space

◆70: The Meta Quest 3's full-color pass-through was amazing, allowing you to enjoy an overwhelming MR experience in which your room becomes a completely different space.

◆71: With the 'GoPro HERO12 Black' you can quickly shoot vertical movies with higher image quality and less blur than with a smartphone, and you can use accessories as they are because you don't need to change the camera's orientation.

◆72: How was the battle for the top anime ratings made? An interview with directors Azuma Tani, Takashi Otsuka, and producer Keiko Matsushita, who produced the anime in the film 'Haken Anime!'

◆73: Interview with Yukito Kishiro, the creator of 'Battle Angel Alita' - We asked him about the process of adapting the 'Alita: Battle Angel' movie and the secrets behind the fantastical story of 'Battle Angel Alita'

◆74: What are the four ways to avoid thinking about the “worst case scenario”?

◆75: Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, who coined the term 'metaverse' and predicted the AI revolution nearly 30 years before the emergence of ChatGPT, talks about AI

A YouTuber recreates the pipe gun used to assassinate former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

◆77: An interview with Choi Eun-young, producer of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, who depicts the 'fun' aspects of animation production

◆78: A thorough photo review of Sony's ultra-compact video camera 'VLOGCAM ZV-E1' with a full-size sensor

◆79: I tried using 'Microsoft Designer,' which allows you to easily create posters and cards with the help of AI

◆80: Photo review of Apple's smartwatch 'Apple Watch Ultra 2' equipped with S9 chip and evolved to a maximum brightness of 3000 nits

◆81: 5 Best Books to Understand 'Financial Crimes'

◆82: Experience the panoramic tank 'GURURI' surrounded by 1,500 jellyfish 360 degrees at the Kyoto Aquarium's new exhibit 'Jellyfish Wonder'

◆83: 'PWABuilder' is a tool that instantly converts PWA-made web apps into a format that can be distributed in stores such as Google Play and the App Store.

◆84: What exactly do “layer blending modes” such as dodge and soft light in image editing software do?

◆85: Five books that Bill Gates says 'made me rethink my way of thinking'

◆86: 'COEIROINK' is a free AI talk software that automatically synthesizes character voices, making it super easy for anyone to create the 'voice' of their creative work.

◆87: Bill Gates' list of '5 Summer Books': 'Short books with serious themes that are fun to read'

◆88: How much of a problem is young people actually turning away from reading, and what can be done about it?

◆89: What is the complex process of translating Murakami Haruki's novels?

◆90: Review of 'tofu skin' that can be used as noodles but is super low in carbs; we looked into the difference between it and the amazing low-carb noodles, tofu-dried

◆91: Meta Quest 3 quick appearance review, which can be enjoyed not only in VR but also in MR (mixed reality) without the need for a PC connection

◆92: A simple summary of how to use 'img2img', an image generation AI 'Stable Diffusion web UI (AUTOMATIC1111 version)' to automatically generate images with similar composition and color to the original image or to change only a specified part

◆93: Interview with director Hasumi Eiichiro, screenwriter Fukami Makoto, and supervisor Kawada Masao of the movie 'Resident Evil: Death Island.' How was a film featuring all five main characters made?

◆94: Dostoevsky, the author of 'Crime and Punishment,' was addicted to gambling. How did he overcome his addiction?

◆95: I actually bought the Google Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 8 and received them, so I did a thorough comparison of the actual product version unboxing ceremony and exterior photo review, and how it differs from the Pixel 7

◆96: We took a closer look at the appearance of the 4K / 120fps movie-compatible action camera 'Osmo Action 3' that can be purchased for around 40,000 yen

◆97: I tried out Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds single-lens camera 'GH6'

◆98: 'Web LLM' can run chat AI only on the browser's WebGPU and can use Japanese, here's how to actually try it out

◆99: Various ways to use color scales to visualize data in an easy-to-understand way

◆100: Tips for developing the 'habits' to achieve a productive and happy life

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