@mystyk said in The true secret behind Bookworm's release schedule:

@legitpancake That may have kicked off a quantum dimensional crossover event. The multi-quofs are from different realities, connected by that common electricity-surge incident, and quof dutifully ensures that each version gets independent credit for work completed.

@xdrfiredogx Risky upvote if I ever saw one...

I'd say that it's more that parallel Quofs translate their version of Bookworm, then our @Quof converts it to our Bookworm (like, for example, the Quof that happens to translate about the boy who was born to a female soldier and a male dyer)

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I added a mod note to the opening post of this topic, to (hopefully) avoid any confusion on if J-Novel Club has licensed this book.

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@weasalopes Sometimes a marriage is just two aces looking to get their families off their backs?

@tube said in [CORRECTIONS] - Bookworm Part 4 Volume 1:

I asked Hiroto on Discord if this is correct or should it read "until graduation ceremony [of each semester]". He answered:

To be more precise, the day before the graduation ceremony.

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Hello,

So after sleeping on it (literally) and reading the feedback in this topic, we will proceed with the suggested spoiler policy.

If someone makes a new topic and does not specify in the title it involves future content, or in the opening post that future content is present, I will treat them as volume discussion topics and remove future spoiler content.

Now that being said, unless someone specifically says the topic is a no spoiler zone, if someone wants to drop some ambiguity in a spoiler tag, I will leave that be, if they are direct about it I will do what I usually do, delete, and send a DM.

Please see the previously mentioned thread for an example, as I have edited some posts.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4822/thoughts-about-myne-s-reincarnation

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@b-scot-morgan said in [CORRECTIONS]-Bookworm Part 3 Vol 2:

@hiroto
How about "forbidden archive" then? Sounds a bit more grand and mysterious than "forbidden book storage room."

Just wanted you to know that I made sure that this is used in this latest part.

@someoldguy
Ack!

At the time I hadn't noticed it was the Manga topic, not the LN; for the LN it would have been just fine, but, yeah, still early days yet for the Manga if one argues not referencing the Fanbook until it hits an equivalent place within the story to where the LN was when it was released. (I don't necessarily take that view myself, but it is a valid way of looking at things.)

So I nuked my comment.

@cooper-cummings-gk5u8qq said in About magic power compression:

@shibariusagi said in About magic power compression:

@zeteni said in About magic power compression:

F: Well it mostly just takes care of itself.
M: ...What?
F: After investing enough mana over sufficient period of time the baby appears before the mother as a complete being.
M: ...Excuse me?
F: Well obviously it's a little more involved. I presume the mother uses a magic circle of some sort to teleport the infant out of the belly. How else would you extract it from their person?
M: Oh Ferdinand. Oh no...

So does Ferdinand think that dying during childbirth is due to a teleportation error, or... X3

Nobles probably don't die during childbirth very often considering all the magic tools they have and considering that Ferdinand didn't seem to think it carried much risk when the grey priests asked him about it, and it is pretty clear that even Ferdinand doesn't know that much about commoners. We have heard a lot about nobles dying of illness, but the only instance I can think of where we have been told a noble died in the proximity of giving birth was Bezewanst and Veronica's mother, who was ill throughout the pregnancy with Bezewanst and may or may not have actually died during childbirth, I can't remember if that was ever specified.

Your insightful and I believe accurate comment killed @ShibariUsagi's joke more thoroughly than a childbirth-telefrag could a noble mother. XD

@pinkie3-1415 said in Speculating about Grun:

@the22dragons said in Speculating about Grun:

In the last chapter Cornelius said that the Grun smells awfully. That's indeed not something an archnoble daughter should use as reference for her highbeast.

Honestly, I would have preferred if she had made a Shumil highbeast, since she is so often compared to one and since that would be a lot more acceptable by nobles standards.

Seriously, Ferdinand could have just shown her what a shumil looks like.

Yep. And Rozrmyne could even adapt the ears to act as windshield wipers. A highbeast even more cute and useful than lessy.

We have multiple reasons to believe that pavement was just mundane bricks and not actually part of the magical construct that is the temple. For one, if Myne had actually managed to break the protections imbued within a part of the city of Ehrenfest proper, Ferdinand's reaction would likely have been a bit more energetic than just throwing her into the repentance chamber. For another, all indications are these constructs don't have substance beyond that which is being maintained by the mana. If you broke a chunk off, you'd implicitly be cutting it off from the mana source powering it, at which point it'll just collapse into dust. And as a final point, if one had access to the amount of mana necessary to perform this breakage, it's probably more productively used directly in an offensive manner than any sort of roundabout way.

@biehl Attendant do need to know how to clean.

@tube said in [CORRECTIONS] - Bookworm Part 3 Volume 5:

I think I found an inconsistency in P3V5 chapter Illgner's Harvest Festival.

When I entered the winter mansion, Fran was standing by the room normally used by blue priests.

“There was an urgent matter in the side building that I needed to address. I wanted to ask the gray priest planning to get married how he felt.”

Both refer to the same place. Asking from Hiroto he said that both terms are the same in Japanese and it is a hard term to translate. For consistency's sake I think here "winter mansion" should most likely be "side building" because the conversation seemed to take place where blue priests stay during spring prayer and harvest festival rather than in the winter mansion for commoners and the English translation differentiates between the two.

For reference, original term used here is - https://jisho.org/word/離れ.

To me, Myne was a young girl who had vivid dreams of her past life who eventually gave up on her current life and let the persona she'd developed in her dreams take over. Said persona would have had several years of experience acting as a young adult in modern society (and many more of making poor decisions out of childish ignorance and shortsightedness only to later regret them :P).

And I think how it plays out in the beginning supports this: at first, she's still an impulsive and highly emotional child. But the more she exercises her Urano experience - the more she relies on the education and training Urano received - the more adult-like she's able to act. On the other hand, that "training" - that common sense - doesn't cover every circumstance, especially in a completely different world. And so we see her stumble through situations when she applies the wrong lesson or ad-libs due to a gap in her training from Urano/Ferdinand/Benno...

She's got the education, but I'm not sure how much her long-term thinking is thinking ahead and not simply learning from a wealth of experience. I think she's still got some growing to do.

...I still ship Myne with Ferdinand though. Or rather, future young adult Myne with Ferdinand :P

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3.4 epilogue.

-- even now, a decade after her [Georgine's] departure.

In the same chapter it is stated it has been nearly 20 years. A few chapters earlier Ferdinand said she had left before he was baptized. (Minimum 15 years.) I questioned this on Discord and Hiroto checked it out for me:

@hiroto said on Discord:

Hmm, I'm afraid "a decode" is wrong. It is "more than a decade".

“エーレンフェストを離れて十年以上経っているというのに、彼女の信奉者はまだ多い。”

(I am compiling a list of possible errors on my current re-read and will send the full list at some point towards the support email address, but I'll report this one here now since it is a little bit newer one and think people might be looking through the correction forum before the first edition of books goes to print.)

@ineluki I feel that the lack of elderly characters in the lower city is most certainly a factor of them just not leaving the house much combined with disease. As for the prevalence of dead mothers, I assume that is likely do to dying in childbirth, or complications there of. Childbirth used to be the leading cause of death in women prior to the hygiene revolution in our world and I doubt that is much different in Bookwormverse, especially for commoners. There is healing magic, but i got the implication that being able to perform said magic is rare and difficult, likely in part due to needing to over come the injured person's own mana to effect healing, and I wouldn't be surprised if compatibility was also a factor. This all leads me to the firm belief that childbirth is the reason so many women are dying in Ehrenfest and to a certain extent explains why seemingly so many noble men seek 'flowers' because of the complete lack of pregnancy chance and that a commoner dying from childbirth would be way way less damaging to a family than the wife dying. Honestly I find it somewhat odd that we've seen implications that wives find it poor taste that their husbands would fulfill their needs elsewhere, if there is no birthcontrol, then it would be so much safer for the noble women that way.

This of course to a certain extent is off topic to the idea of dethroning or disposing of the nobility, except in so far as it being even more reasons why the current devaluation of commoners has arisen in Ehrenfest and elsewhere. I do have to agree with Rozemyne's assumptions that the temple used to be much more important and I have to wonder if in that time period if the gap in treatment between nobles and commoners was less brutal. We surely are seeing the eventual shift towards a more kind relationship between nobles and commoners, or at least a better educated relationship, via Rozemyne's actions in part three, and i highly doubt that they would not continue into part 4 and beyond. Frankly it has in a way been the moral delima of the entire story, that by our standards the way commoners are treated is wrong, but that the value difference in this world is absolute, or at least unavoidable. inequality is inherient in Bookwormverse, and frankly I find it somewhat refreshing that the story deals with it at all unlike so many other fantasy stories that seem to ignore how some people having magic would radically change social structures. It does though beg the question as to how the story will ultimately end up coming down on this major issue. Will Rozemyne adapt truly to the status quo as we've seen it presented choosing the easy path for her ascent into librianhood, or will she take a moral route of slowly and surely shifting the world to a more fair society for all? To me I can only hope that she does choose what is right over what is easy, but honestly her track record on motivation has been rather poor showing for her. At this point from my perspective we are being shown that her bookwormness is reaching the point of being borderline morally repugnant, and that I suspect she will at some point have to truly choose between books and the people she cares about and will have to forsake one of them.

@hiroto Yea, I've removed it from the list of errors. Still, the others on the list above, still not fixed in ebook version, almost a year now. The one that bother me most is calling Lutz, Gil (unless this is not an error).
The others, I could excuse as minor errors