As per https://j-novel.club/faq being a member gives you access to pre-production releases but only until the novel has been published (at which point you need to buy the novel). I have premium membership to get premium credits to buy the e-books at discounted rates, and for Grimgar these premium ebooks tend to include bonus short stories as noted by @Raitoiro

If you are reading a preview or pre-production chapter and it is taking forever to load then you may need to change your settings to enter 'simple' mode due to a bug in how the app loads graphics on some devices.

@guspaz This. The same thing happens on the Android app too, force stop and restart does the job.

The app doesn't support sign on with Google, you need to set a password on your account

@elfin-woodchuck it was made available for download a bit to early, typically premium ebook needs some extra time (up to 24 hours extra) to be released compared to normal ebooks, since Grimgar just released today the premium edition should be available by tomorrow.

You can still redeem the credits via direct links. (I include them in all the J-NC discussions I post on /r/LightNovels) _08 showed the base link above.

https://j-novel.club/mypage/redeemCredit?title=

This is the base link. After the equals, you add the volume url to it to get the premium credit redemption link. For example:

Take out:

arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest-volume-8

From https://j-novel.club/v/arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest-volume-8

and add it into the previously mentioned base link to get the Premium Credit Redemption page for Arifureta Volume 8.

https://j-novel.club/mypage/redeemCredit?title=arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest-volume-8

I forgot to mention that I'm on app version 2.0.5

Pretty sure you should be reaching out to Kobo

@steelstrannik they're on to you! Run!!

@rahul-balaggan
Thank you ^^

@JeremyTMH beat me to it. But yeah, that is indeed not an error.

@motionless47 oh that must suck so bad. Rip. It still took me a solid 30 seconds, although my room in the house has the worst reception cause its downstairs. Always at one bar of reception out of 5

@watspr02 it has been done before, just email contact@j-novel.club

They will be able to assist you.

@jpwong Indeed, that doesn't seem to be included anymore in the newer volumes. I just downloaded some earlier and there isn't anymore our own username. But it seems to be random, for example I have it on 5 books out of 8 in arifureta (1+2+4+5+6). I guess there is some kind of replacement string missing in the master files or something for some LN volumes.

@sam-pinansky @Rahul-Balaggan Thx

It works now. Thanks for the assist.

Yep, looks like it's back.

Thank you

@rtwpsom2 it is available now.