Last weekend I spend with a friend on our traditionel "culture and nature" summer days. In a museum shop I found a book about the history of bookmaking and thanks to the bookworm series I got super excited, bought the book and am reading it since then. I would not have been interested in so many details otherwise. Some tidbits: the linseed oil needs to get boiled to work as a base for printing colour. And Gutenberg invented a way to manufactur metal lettertypers in series by using molds.

Perhaps Anastasius will make a fluffy unicorn driveable highbeast.

What if Eglantine whirls at a concert where Ferdinand plays? Maybe both men and women would faint. Then she could go on to have a career as a rock star.

@delwack said in The Map.:

I'm curious if human life outside of Yurgenschmidt is also all dependent upon mana, or if there is more 'traditional' non magic human civilization elsewhere.

I'm betting on it being non-magical because of one bit of side culture we've heard.

Bathing culture and large fancy baths were said to have been developed in a foreign country. The guild master had one because nobles have been importing them as a new trend but with cleaning magic they probably didn't have much incentive to develop it for themselves in the past.

Resurrecting the town/village discussion. Specific medieval distinction is that town had a market (thus was a center for trade, place to move stuff to, or buy stuff from), while a village did not.

In bookverse, it would make sense if town was a settlement with a winter mansion, I guess.

Edit: my source, which quotes The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer.

@legitpancake Thanks for the information. I didn't expect to get any replies to my post anymore. I think all of Part 1 got a reprint too, because it went out of stock for a few months. I'm compiling a list of all the errors I've spotted so far, and I'm going to send it to support@j-novel.club. I just finished P2V1.

Someone lent me the first edition of the e-books, so I can't check the updated e-books to see if these errors have been fixed or not. I'll probably be passing on errors that have already been corrected, but you never know if there's anything new I spotted.

I'm going to keep buying the paperbacks as they come out, and in a few years when all 33 paperbacks have been published, I'll probably buy the whole series again. It diminishes the chance of me buying another first print edition with errors. I buy them through the Book Depository so I can't check which edition I'm getting, like at a bookstore. Maybe J-novel will have published box sets by then :)

@jcochran said in The Name of Rozemyne:

But on a different track, "don't feed the troll" and honestly, this expansion of her name to absurd lengths is extremely annoying and a primary reason this specific thread was created. Unfortunately, the creator of this thread is still lacking a major clue and instead is using an absurdly long link to this thread instead of just a simple "Rozemyne". Frankly, I think a certain moderator is being overly optimistic in his claim that the forums have remained "troll free". I personally consider the overlong URLs back here to be trolling.

Your concerns have been noted, considered, thrown into my dog's food bucket, then removed from there because I don't want for him to get sick, thrown into the dug out outhouse and forgotten.

I do agree the link might be longer than just be a crass guy and just say "Rozemyne" or even worse,"Myne", but the "overly long links" usually reference or contribute to the discussed, and I try to keep them sensible.

Thank you for your informations @Elisabeth @mystyk .

@shiroi-hane
Took some work, since when it redirected to the US site it dumped the series... and it wasn't until I slapped in the kanji that it admitted they existed.
https://www.audible.com/series/B07TFS82TJ is what it is for US-based customers.

@b-scot-morgan to add to @Quof she prays to Wind and her twelve as well as Fire and his 12 in the Ambush chapter of P2V3

Without any knowledge of what's available literature-wise in Japan, or if the author reads untranslated English literature, I can't make any guesses concerning 'influences' from earlier works in the field.

It's clear she's a decent grasp of stuff related to late Medieval/early Renaissance society and culture.
A decent grasp of the history of 'how we preserve knowledge for future reference'; better than mine, truth be told.

Published works that have been brought to mind while reading this series, but not as inspirations.
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp.
The 1632verse created by Eric Flint.

Rather less so...
Various works by S.M Stirling.
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper

These all have differing takes on the concept of someone (or a group of someones) with modern knowledge being plunked into either the past or an alternate present, and how their dissemination of said knowledge impacts things. They all have a heavy focus on the impact upon military affairs, although the first mentioned rather less than the others iirc...

Other web fiction...
The Somewhere Else Entirely universe created by Penny Lane, over at Top Shelf Big Closet. (If you aren't familiar with this series, go read it now. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, just go read it now.) Deals nicely with the quandaries of what knowledge to release when, and how to do so with minimal negative impact upon the existing social and economic structures, or at least I think they've done well at it.

Wait.
One inspiration I'm pretty sure of...Quidditch, anyone?

@idarktemplar said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@lighthawk96 said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@iDarkTemplar
So, the medal for Myne was cancled out by Fedinand when Gunther came to the temple to report that she died per their agreement.

The medal made during her second baptism is the only active medal tied to the person now known as Rosemyne. So, doing anything to the first medal will yield 0 results as arranged by Ferdinand.

Is there any mention of that in official translated content? I certainly didn't see that.

I’m late to this conversation, however the answer to your question is in Fanbook 1, in the second part.

Here's hoping Suzuka-sensei gets part 5... For all people's complaints about the part 3 art style, part 4's has had an even rougher start in some respects.

@rahul-balaggan said in Differences between releases?:

The Bookworm premiums are Textless color pinups, which you can read about in that list.

These usually are the cover illustration and the main color insert (found in the normal edition) in higher resolution.

Also note that JNC premium editions are DRM-less in an widespread format (epub), so you are not locked to a specific device or app.

@blacksheep can you send out another invite to the discord server? Thank you.

@jcochran I think that the worst parts of the anime are present in the second season, which is ironic considering that the first season adapts 3 volumes but the second only does 2 but frankly is there where I think that the most cuts went through and where the most annoying changes were made. Basically everything outside the temple suffer severe cuts including Tuuli character arc, Benno's restaurant, all of the Guntenbergs and the worst changes Lutz conflict with his family in the end of P2V1 and the scene where Ferdinand read Myne's memories in P2V2. In Lutz case they made his dad be a complete asshole when in the LN is position is much more nuance and is made clear that this was a problem of miscomunication between all his family and in Myne case they change who the scene play out completely and the fact that they cut Ferdinand pov in the end but decide to dedicate a whole episode to Eckhart(Kardest firstborn) and Justus extra chapter from Part 3 is just puttig salt in open wounds.

@shiroi-hane said in Help me update my facts please:

@caroline with the current beta of the app you can just tap on each volume in turn to see which parts you have read as they will show with coloured in blue for partially read parts or green for fully read parts. Keep going till you get to the unmarked stuff that you haven’t read (although you’d need to buy the book to access the parts now).

You can also get this information all on one screen using Crimson's Progressive Web Apps (PWA) based JNC reader: https://crimson-jnc-reader.appspot.com/ (see https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3353/yet-another-pwa-jnc-client for discussion thread).

@torresleon In the 7th manga volume, there is also a POV chapter from Corinna POV

How come I wasn't aware of this Bewkworm Place?

@crowdcontrol said in Ascendance of a Bookworm Vol. 7 (Manga) Discussion:

@crowdcontrol I like this manga artists and all myne's facial expression. I plan on buying all the physical english manga from j-novel. I don't think I would be buying the manga of the other artist though that is doing the other part, even if it ended up english translated. That art is just not the same. Its inconsistent quality. Some part it looks good, but most times it looks horrible

I like the artist for part 3, it’s the one doing part 4 I dislike. I hope they let the person doing part 1 & 2 do part 5 though.

From what I have heard the 3rd season will show up Winter 2022 or Spring 2022, we might get lucky with Fall 2021. I expect the season to finish up Part 2. But wonder what other people think?