@chower I can confirm that your #1 report matches the behaviour it gives when it can't find any of the source books. (I should probably add some kind of warning to that effect to the next release.)

Please check your settings are correct - particularly option Update Omnibus Creation Settings -> Folder Settings -> Input Folder, which should point to a folder with your downloaded .epub files in (if you don't want the builder to download everything itself). If you do wish for the builder to do the downloads, you do need to request the download manually from the menu.

@dutenhnj said in HFYatRA - Hannelore's Fall (Fan Fiction):

@Uraelius said in HFYatRA - Hannelore's Fall (Fan Fiction):

It was Ortwin's job to draw a sizable portion of the Korinthsdaum knight's order through the release of artificially enlarged feybeasts while visiting the border province overseen by his sister Adolphine.

Ortwin: "Hey sister, would you like to help me and my friend Wilfried majorly screw over Sigiswald?"
Adolphine: "Absolutely! When do we get started?"

LOL, that would have essentially been the outcome. My rough idea is that his sister's land was merely a convenient staging ground where he could claim to visit his dear sister and carry out the "attack" without her knowledge (to shield her from any adverse outcomes). After being tipped off by a loyal retainer, Adolphine stops Ortwin and scolds him for trying to stir up trouble with a higher ranking duchy (mistaking his actions as an attempt to get petty revenge for his sister). Ortwin confesses that he is attempting to aid Wilfred so that Hannelore doesn't suffer the same fate as Adolphine. Adolphine agrees to help, citing Sigiswald's spreading of malicious rumors of her as a convenient excuse for her involvement. After which, she scolds Ortwin for his poor choice of feybeast, tells him to use one that would demand more attention from Korinthsdaum's knight order, provides him with several full fist-sized feystones, and tells him to take extensive notes on the experiment's outcome and not be late for dinner.

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Regarding your first concern, this fanbook contains spoilers for the series ending. In the interest of not ruining the surprise for future readers, we have elected to recommend this fanbook to be read after finishing the main series.

Alright, Fanbook 6 time!

We have Dirk's Preparing to Become a Noble. I think this one goes after P5V6's Magic Tools for Children. Which is where I've stuffed Detlinde's The Lanzenave Envoys.

@kuali said in Alternate Reading Order:

First is Detlinde's The Lanzenave Envoys. I don't really have a specific position for this one. Its before the funeral and after the Archduke Conference... That said, I don't really want to break up the block of chapters from Report on the Archduke Conference to Mother and Daughter, to put it between the two Papermaking chapters, or put it back-to-back with My Hopes and Their Problems, which leaves... Either after Prologue or after Magic Tools for Children. In think, in this case, I'll go for the latter - making it the final chapter dealing with the aftermath of the Archduke Conference.

In which case, I think I might move Detlinde's chapter to after Making Maximal-Quality Samples. Giving us a running order of:

Mother and Daughter My Hopes and Their Problems [Lieseleta] Magic Tools for Children Preparing to Become a Noble [Dirk] Preparing Fey Paper Making Maximal-Quality Samples The Lanzenave Envoys [Detlinde] The Spring Coming-of-Age Ceremony and Sylvester's Departure

Then we have the Manga chapter From Me to You. Rozemyne's in the High Priest robes, but Kamil's still a baby, so this has to be in Part 3 somewhere. I haven't the faintest clue where, though. Any suggestions?

Edit: For now, I think I'll pick after Discussing How to Improve Hasse, where Benno's being overworked thanks to Sylvester's not-yet-reduced development schedule for the printing industry.

Then another Manga chapter, Hartmut's Vow. This comes between Rozemyne picking Hartmut and Traugott as retainers, and them formally beginning the roles. This puts it in the gap between My Retainers and Entering the Dormitory and The Better Grades Committee, either before or after Ferdinand's After her Departure. Unless people have strong feelings on the matter, I'll probably go for after.

QA changes have been applied to this volume's streaming copy. As per usual, additional updates may not be ported to this copy in future.

How come the audiobook for "Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1, Volume 3" does not appear to be available anywhere other than audible (at least in the US)? It's not on Libro.fm or AudiobooksNow.com (my two preferred digital audiobook retailers). I asked AudiobooksNow.com and they said there is an issue with the files they received and they were going to reach out to the distributer to fix it, but that was months ago. I was just wondering what the issue is since audible seems to have worked it out.

@Aradethcis We can't comment on upcoming releases before they are announced, but please rest assured that part 3 has not been forgotten. Please look forward to reading more of Rozemyne's adventures in part 3 soon!

@rsog412 For all that we legally consider people in postsecondary "adults," that is more a consequence of how long modern society thinks it takes someone to obtain the requisite knowledge and experience needed to attend postsecondary. But the expectations placed upon both postsecondary students and Royal Academy students have far more overlap than dissimilarities. Not to mention for all that Yurgenschmidt students aren't considered legal "adults," they still start assuming a significant degree of personal autonomy upon reaching academy age. They live outside of parental supervision for a good chunk of the year, their parents are outright forbidden to intervene/clean up any mistakes their children make except in the most serious of circumstances, and they have defacto control over their retainers/employees, ie when firing Oswald after Wilfried started at the Royal Academy without Wilfried's consent would have also besmirched Wilfried's reputation, again. That is why I separate out the physical age from the societal expectations, since at what age a society expects people to assume certain levels of responsibility can vary drastically, and trying to match ages will only get you into the values dissonance you're currently outlining.

Put it another way, if one looks at the educational system in East Asian countries like China, Japan, or Korea, the point of "failure" at which a child could massively screw up their future career prospects aren't much different than Traugott's physical age. The cutoffs are basically the upper secondary (high school) and university entrance exams, and in the really competitive cases, even the lower secondary (middle school) entrance exams. And these are modernized, developed (more or less) countries. Is this "fair" to the children of those countries? Are they being deprived of their childhoods by being forced to compete so aggressively starting from such a young chronological age? That's where the society subjectivity comes into full force.

I created a thread for the detailed discussion of Traugott, since the discussion will involve a lot of Manga Spoilers.

@kuali thanks, I appreciate the help~