My Oldest manga should be a 20+ years old Doraemon: Petualangan Nobita di Negeri Sihir or Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld, Last time I saw it it already lost its cover don't know where it is now tho.
while I've been reading manga from manga rental ever since I knew about it, that manga was the first ever manga I bought.

as for LN, with my country being so under the radar of such literature work,
my first physical LN was Penguin Summer its (2014), my 1st JP LN was Seirei Gensouki vol.5 (2016), then my 1st EN was Re:Zero (2016)
I just bought them for collection tho.

IDK, it could be a mix of things, I guess. Like maybe since this is written for a Japanese audience that taking an American viewpoint to it means that I found a lot of things that look like it should disqualify it as a romance (or at least like it is purposely not going there), but in Japanese culture, it wouldn't. Like a 7 YO and a 20 something isn't a strange couple or that a father/daughter isn't an unexpected pairing... that just seems weird to say.

Though in American culture, a child having a crush on a parent is not that unusual in little kids, but it is just treated as a cute phase, not a call to action.

@db0ssman Calibre is the tool I use too, and it is really good.

@myskaros I was curious what text-to-speech software they were using. I use the one built into my phone via eReader Prestigo, or so I believe. Its very convenient for me, listen to some of my less favourite books while walking to and from work. Read my favourite books while taking public transportation or during lunch. However, the quality is so so. Maybe somebody could make a recommendation for a better solution?

@DoubleMangekyo I didn't know that website. I have using isbns.net to check for used books. Depending on the books it can be sometimes cheaper to buy them new then used lol. I have gotten goblin slayer books cheap from whsmith.

@Rahul-Balaggan said in Do you import Japanese light novels? If yes, what service do you usually use to purchase them?:

new To Junior Label reprint easier to read, or simplified in anyway?

Only difference of the text is the ruby. I saw the author tweeting that it was tempting to go through it again to do cleanup editing but at the end it was deemed to become endless amount of work so she gave up.

I'm rather surprised by that because this label is definitely targeted for elementary schooler reader. I'm not sure how parents would answer if the a kid asks "what is flower offering?" for some of adult themed topics.

Warning: for JNC books these are the "standard" editions not the "premium" versions with the content listed here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/305/premium-e-book-bonus-contents-list/

If you want the bonus stories you need to become a JNC member and buy the DRM-free epubs directly from JNC.

It's very easy to copy the books to a kindle with the free Calibre ebook app. Attach kindle to PC with USB cable, add book to Calibre library, click on "send to device" button, wait a minute, done.

For phones you can just install an app that reads epub files.

Warnis mentioned on discord that it should restart on May, 19.

J-music only when i read

My solution to get my fixxx of Book was easy: Pay MX$100+- a month for a basic Jonvel Club Membersheep!

And regarding the Tracking of the ever-elusive Book Prepub, I want to redirect you to this:Track The book

As you khaaaaaaaaaaan see, in the coming soon section you can see what'll be coming in the day. in the picture of course, we don't see Book itself, as it's in sev'ral hours b-4 we get to read it. as you seen in this, it's basically the last release of them day...
Truest Book

@Demonskid Thanks for taking the survey!

@Seiya well that discussion looks like much more interesting :)

I would recommend going in as your own Kindle direct publisher, and you'll need to commission cover art and design. I'm sure there are businesses that can help you out with that (for a price). J-Novel Club does not publish English-original works.

I've continued to love OC, but have fallen three volumes behind. I have them all in my account so once I finish a few books I'm working on I'm looking forward to getting back to it

@smiley_101 said in The Devil is a Part-Timer! will be concluding with its 21st vol. in Summer 2020!:

This is one series I can't get enough of. Love it to death

Wait, so it's ending, because you loved it too much? ;)

One of my favorite series and one of the longest one I have followed the WN translation. I guess it just hits all the check boxes for things I look/like in an isekai series. That said though the last arc in the WN definitely felt a bit of "winging it" by the author to finish it up. Hopefully he/she does something original for the LN releases.

@Clarys You're welcome. There are quite a few shoujo novels in the 'Licensing Suggestions!' forum, which are really good. I hope, that JNC will license them someday. In fact, they recently released a hint, which could be one of them.^^

@HarmlessDave Not exactly light and fun, but you really should at least watch Your Name. It's amazing.