I missed the last Black Friday sale, but I think I still have around 50 credits. Planning to grab another hundred if we get a Black Friday/Cyber Monday premium sale this year.

I'm one of those readers that prefers to read everything in one go...which is the polar opposite of the weekly chapter release method. I generally try new stuff out when it's on a catch-up, and if I like it then I buy the series up to current and pre-order as new volumes get added. Then when I have the itch to read a particular series I jam the whole thing out (yay for cardio machines) through the current release. And yes that does mean I end up re-reading earlier books, but I also read through those faster (refreshes my memory on the entire story) before I take my time with the ones I haven't read yet. The bigger series like Smartphone (last read through was after volume 19 was released) I may end up waiting until it is fully finished before I read again (as long as the author doesn't pull an unintentional Robert Jordan).

And I'm so glad JNC self publishes electronically - getting real tired of Amazon's Kindle division that is human understaffed and badly managed by some junkyard pre-alpha version of Alexa's AI.

@myskaros I'm very curious as to the overall setup over there.. one way that could work is (like on the beta site) add the version of each book on the library as part of the info in each book and maybe add a (NEW) to something after it gets updated

Honestly I wouldn't be paying this site any money at all if they didn't release weekly as they do. To be honest I pirate plenty of light novels, including J-Novel Club ones for series I can't read on the site because they're expired. After I catch up though I start reading weekly and then often buy later volumes, but I don't go back and buy earlier volumes unless the series is truly amazing (Ascendence of a Bookworm for example is one I went and bought the full back catalog). I've never bought a yen press book as their paper editions are utter crap and they over-localize as they're focused on the non-otaku mass market. So I'm really glad J-Novel Club is doing this and I hope other sites start following their example.

@igneel4

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to point this out, for ongoing prepubs it is best to point out any errors in the light novel discussion topics.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3333/prince-herscherik-vol-1-discussion

Thank you

Pretty mean of you to make a non-member question in a member-only subforum,

So, back to the title, how do I see credit balance as non-member?

By opening credit redemption page
All credit-related buttons are hidden from non-members because the site is bad.

And while we're on that topic, is there a way to see my credit usage history

Looking at server responses using browser's developer tools or elsewhere will let you see how much you gained and how much you spent.

when and what I use my credit on

what — look at the library.
when — not without doing even more roundabout stuff.

@Vegangoth

Otherside Picnic is a great little read.

As for other JNC yuri titles, there are only a few I've come across here with yuri overtones or the occasional yuri crush like in "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!" It's a fun, light read but don't go in expecting Shakespeare or a full on yuri romance.

There is also some pretty heavy subtext in "Seriously Seeking Sister! Ultimate Vampire Princess Just Wants Little Sister; Plenty of Service Will Be Provided!" but that story isn't as well written as the other two I mentioned.

If you get the No-Rin books I will buy them. I really enjoyed the anime and would like to read the books too.

@Destruxio

Hello!

No they will not disappear, credits are tied to your account, and as such they will remain there indefinitely until they are used.

Even if you were to cancel your subscription they will not go away.

@Eternal-Wanderer said in A List of Jnovels Most Popular Titles?:

Even if Bookworm isn't the top selling title I don't think that means it isn't one of the most popular title on the service. Remember the books here have two purposes, one is obvious that is to sell and make money. The other is to get people to subscribe to the site itself and simultaneously to keep it current subscribers engaged. And just looking at Bookworm's current discussion topic I would wager its doing an excellent job of the latter.

Bookworm certainly is the reason I'm here.

I hope we get more of this series, I really like it.

@tgquan67 you should start a thread to report issues to :-) I know Bookworm and I Refuse to Be Your Enemy! don’t work.

@jon-mitchell

Thanks, you are absolutely right! I know it, but missed due to first experience.

Now waiting for response from my local publisher and Japanese agency...

@terabyte thanks, I lost that section.

The get a premium credit when you first sign up and one on the 15th of every month, no credits for re-subbing

There's only 2 series so far that I have dropped and not got back in to.
First is Little Apocalypse. I have read 10 volumes of that and haven't read any more for about 6 months. I took a break on it as well after 4 or 5 volumes as well. I find that the way that the series is written with introducing 3-4 new girls every volume to become overwhelming. Way too many characters to remember and I find that the structure of the stories are too similar so that all the volumes seem like the same story with a different setting. I'll probably get around to finishing it at some point, but it's very low on the list of things to read.
The other is Ascendance of a Bookworm. I've read the first 2 volumes, and I have the 3rd as well, but I found it hard to enjoy the series. I don't particularly like Myne as a character and the story it self hasn't been very interesting. I don't usually mind a slow story, but it needs to have something else to go with it like humour to keep me interested in progressing the story, but this one hasn't really done it for me. I might get around to more of it at some point, but it's even lower on the list than Little Apocalypse.

@serah Smartphone comes out in Japan fairly regularly. Other titles, not so much.

Grimgar, released 14+, 14++, and 15 fairly close together. JNC is in process of translating 14++ now. I almost expect 16 to be out before 15 is finished.

Mixed Bathing and Otherworld Magic both went well over a year between volumes. Both series easily caught up to Japan.

That doesn't even consider the normal back and forth that goes on when licensing a new volume. Patience is a necessity. JNC is still faster and more consistent than some publishers.

I think it's a mistake to assume that all isekai need to be self insertion power fantasies. Grimgar is not a feel good story about some sniveling neet going on a hero's journey and becoming a God in another world with waifu hanging off both arms, but rather a rather disturbing and more realistic look at flawed people doing their best in crappy situations and failing as often as they succeed. If you really look at Grimgar this is not a hero's story at all, but rather the story of sympathetic villains selling their asses as mercenaries in a racial cleaning war to survive.

If your looking for a shounen power fantasy or simple black and white morality this is not the series you should be reading. Not all stories need to about the characters' growth as a human beings. There are are plenty of very well regarded stories about precisely the opposite. For instance Moby Dick is the story of a man destroying himself and everything he loved over his all consuming obsession with vengeance.

@melting-sky Yeah it's exactly that, normally each catch up should last for a month but usually they're a bit longer sometimes going on for multiple months.
To know what's on catch up you can either look on the forum for a post like this one:
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2795/stock-up-on-fantasy-in-december-s-catchups
or you can look in the news section at the bottom of the front page of the main site (which is, in my opinion, the easiest way since catchup content is, with new license announcements, the only info put there).

The situation should be fixed now.