@smashman42
Sweet thanks for clarifying! I hope Sam sees this and add it to the FAQ/how it works page as a clarifier.

Ditto for me along with the others using calibre, but I just copy them to the documents directory on my kindle over USB instead of mailing them to it.

@tako it'll be there in 12 minutes.

Ok, I will try doing that, thank you.

@myskaros Something tells me that in Japanese, that sentence would start with Hai, no matter how it is written in English.

I agree that the first full volume should remain available to subscribers (rather than the first part of each volume), because it's the best way to get somebody hooked on a series. If we ignore catchup, there isn't necessarily much value to a subscription for new members, as most series are ongoing and there are few series that a new subscriber can start on without buying the individual volumes. Providing the first volume of each series gives new subscribers a large variety of content to start with, and encourages them to become committed to a new series, which may entice them to buy further volumes to catch up.

This approach has worked well for Baen, a sci-fi publisher who was in many ways one of the original pioneers of modern ebooks due to the foresight of the late Jim Baen. For many years they've operated the "Baen Free Library" which makes available the first novel in many series (http://www.baen.com/categories/free-library.html). It's how I got started on a bunch of Baen series, such as the Honor Harrington series, some of which I would probably never have started if I didn't have a chance to read the first book in a series and say "Hey, I really liked that, I want more of it."

This strategy has worked well enough for Baen that they continue to offer the Free Library roughly 19 years after they launched it.

@paul-nebeling yeah, I mainly had audible on the mind when thinking of the monthly credit stuff, they have a system that only charges you once every 2 month for your credit. While you do make a valid point in just downgrading, I actually don't actually utilize the ongoing translation stuff, so at that point I would probably just unsub completely.

I'm basically just subbing just to get a bit of money off each LN purchase with no drm at this point, which I guess would be more of a byproduct than their sole intention. So I guess I'll just buy the volumes once they're done and at my own pace. Seems like I just imprinted audible's system and transferred my habits without even thinking about it.

It still might be worth mentioning out loud anyways, even if it's a bit convoluted. Data from a dummy is still data in the end, lol. And it's not like I'm complaining either, it was just one of those "oh, why don't they do-yaddayadda" things and then the answer is just "oh well, credits is just a perk, ongoing translations is the business" which totally flew over my head for a hot minute. But yeah, thank you and @paulnamida for the reply.

What I do is read check out the preview of the books I’ve read on Amazon. It includes the translated images at the beginning, and it’s free!

@sam-pinansky Kind of figured it may have been you, but wasn't sure. You're profile on this site, mentioning super string theory, and a username like quarkboy, in conjunction with a knowledge of the business side of this site, did have some interesting clues.

@redknight1322 Thanks

@shiny said in Audio Version:

It does say sometimes "dot dot dot" for "...", though,

Ha ha, yeah.

There's other workarounds for the prepubs too. Turn on Shake to Speak setting in your TalkBack setting on Android. Download a TTS extension for Google Chrome on the PC. Use the Microsoft Store unofficial app for Windows Devices someone posted that has a play straight through function.

But I would definitely love some kind of official text to speech functionality (with a pause and rewind function especially, but if that's too difficult, so be it).

I absolutely need this for Bookwalker light novels too since those have no work around to have them read to me (I mention this every time I take a survey there).

You can get one of those in the US by going to any pharmacy or big store that has gift card sections. I remember getting those to buy cheap gold for some games and not getting my ssn/cc stolen since the sellers were kinda iffy. You had to call to activate the card tho and it worked like a regular cc. Well depending on what you plan to use the card for when you call to get it activated and they ask for a SSN just tell them you don't have one and they will activate it w/o your SSN. That's if you plan on using it for more stuff. Another awesome thing about those cards as I had multiple I would use them for free 1 month trials that required a cc number XD . I was a broke boy back then and this helped with free Netflix for a year. Granted I had to pay for the cards to get money on them but I still didn't have to pay for Netflix.

@helge-könig said in RSS Feed eBook publication confusion:

So I wish to propose that the eBook releases will only be posted to the RSS Feed if that book is indeed availible

It is available, but only on amazon and other retailers. Premium ebook have its own release date which may be different from others (either because of error or because they needed extra time to make premium things). Library's "available at ..." is kinda useless near release date, indeed.

and that time zones will be added to the date anoucements.

Date in the library doesn't tell the whole story because it has some time of the day set as well and timezone won't do you any good without knowing exact time.

It seems that the staff here operates at some US time zone, which is exactly why I thought I could trust the RSS Feed to keep

Times are served as UTC and they are properly calculated locally according to your time zone so that shouldn't be the problem.

Anyway, go recheck the library. The book should've become available few minutes ago.

I would also appreciate if new revision would be anounced via RSS Feed, as this is my primary souces of infomration.

The Google Sign In API is not supported by the App, which is why you need to disable the sign in procedure by setting up a password here at the page. You can then use your username and newly added J-Novel password to sign in to the App.

@jampodevral non-catch-up-month catch-ups happen too. Plus there's an eternal Rokujouma catch-up.
'Previous part' button sounds mostly useless, though. It's only gonna get distracting.

@jaquobus said in App Function Request- Ability to Read E-pubs:

@terrence said in App Function Request- Ability to Read E-pubs:

The dream of having my one Kobo book read

You know that Epub's Adobe DRM as used by Kobo is... not as unbreakable as some publisher's would like?

Yeah, but it still seems a pain in the rump. I guess the dream is still alive...

Edit: The Dream Is Dead! Can't get it to work. =[