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  Seven Seas in Trouble for Heavy alterations and censorship of light novels.
  • BookManiaReader  

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  @BookManiaReader said in Seven Seas in Trouble for Heavy alterations and censorship of light novels.: It's like in literature where characters originally say Koyabashi: You aren't dressed lightly today. Luccoa: I was told it was it was drawing unneeded attention. Everything was getting bothersome. Being modified to. Koyabashi: You aren't dressed lightly today. Luccoa: I stopped because of the perverted stares were unwanted. It was bothersome. If I encounter something like this, I would probably ask what the line was originally, since Japanese is a language notorious for not having subjects in sentences. As an example, not too long ago, I had a discussion with the translator of The Apothecary Diaries in its correction thread on whether a certain beautiful eunuch himself thinks or is told by people that his beauty could even attract the Emperor--two situations with different implications considering the context.
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  Need help! I want to order something for a friend‘s birthday on amazon.jp!
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  Is the product in question shipped and sold by Amazon Japan? They should have included an import fees deposit if there's supposed to be any fees since I believe amazon takes care of all the brokerage for you. If the product is being shipped and sold by a marketplace seller however, they'll only charge you shipping and the receiving party is responsible for all clearance fees. Can't really help you on the UK part, but that's generally how it should work, so maybe double check who the seller is.
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  Yet Another PWA JNC Client
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  Nope, still does not work and redirects me to the front page when I try to login, still giving only "Sign in" in the profile icon menu in the upper right corner. The reaction to me logging in is the same with real credentials and with a made up email address and password. It does require email@address.com form from the email and if I enter just a random string as the email it will not redirect me to the front page upon clicking "sign in". It asks me to enter a real email address. I tried crtl + F5 both on front page and login page if that helps at all. I tried this with Firefox Beta and Chrome on Android too after my previous message (previosly Windows 10) and the behaviour is to my eyes similar. EDIT: Well, this is embarrassing. I had remembered my password wrong on JNC and kept entering the wrong one to Crimson Reader. On a completely unrelated note I have a feature request: could the site tell me if my credentials seem to be incorrect?
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  Abolition of the 22 Euros VAT De Minimis into EU - What will change?
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  @Lex If it‘s only a change in price, then I won‘t complain. I just hope that the overseas amazon sites won‘t stop selling/shipping to the EU altogether, like they did with Switzerland and Australia. ...Nah, time will tell and maybe there will be other possibilities to get foreign-language books (in this case mangas, novels etc.) by then.
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  Calibre Colour page edit
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  Ill try these, thanks. Its not a big deal and everything else still works like if I select a chapter it takes me to the correct place etc.
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  LaNovel Edition in danger - crowdfunding campaign
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  Do you get nostalgic when you see or read about places in light novels, manga or anime that you've been to before?
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  Totally. I'm a sucker for when they mention Tokyo tube lines I've been on...
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  The beta application
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  @Afikanto You as well, if you have any further questions feel free to post here, or send me a direct message.
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  Physical Release Requirements
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  @Timmaaah Nice. And good to see it seems to be doing pretty well, though I'm obviously not privvy to their profit calculations.
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  Too many titles, too little time.
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  I don't think I could make a list of how many different titles I'm following at the moment without looking at a list. It has to be around 25 or 30 currently, though several of those aren't finished but may never get a continuation. And that's only here, that's not including physical books. Which is where I'm actually very far behind... Thankfully, I am a very fast reader. I also have read at least some before I go to sleep every night for as far back as my memory goes. And even as a kid, it made perfect sense to me to be reading 4 or 5 different books at once... one I would take to school, one in my mom's car, one at my bed, one in the living room, etc. So I am rather uniquely well suited for J-Novel's format. As much as I read, I haven't dropped too many series. I have a good feel for what titles I'm probably not going to enjoy so 1 part is plenty to make the call. The ones I have dropped were all because the protagonist bored me or because I simply couldn't build any sense of being invested in what was going on.
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  (Unofficial) Android/Win10 Rokujouma Reader. Nice Things status: can not be had.
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  @Icerius I'll try to add that soon along with some other sorting options. Probably not for manga, though, because it's been like half a year and I still don't know how I want to implement chapter's length/percentage storage (it stores read pages count instead of % because that's how JNC's reader does it for some reason).
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  New to the idea of ePubs
  • Argonauts  

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  Just as described above, it’s super easy for a Nook. I have a kindle and a nook, but prefer the Nook by far for ePubs.
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  Funimation selling email lists?
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  @SomeOldGuy Yes, that happened... I believe they sent an email about it shortly after it happened with warnings about changing passwords. That said, I haven't received any spam/phishing/social engineering emails sent to my Funimation alias. I'm actually kind of surprised it's still in use since I know it's been compromised, however, since it hasn't received emails to that address I haven't yet encountered a reason to switch out the alias. I do know that there's at least one botnet is trying to login to my email server and it makes some attempts using that alias.
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  E-readers
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  @Taedirk said in E-readers: @Thomask Why not just skip the Kindle steps for reading on your iPad and use another reader program? No need to convert and export multiple times. Thought about it... weird but I'm attached to the kindle reader... don't know what it is about some of the others... Meh, its the price I need to put up with. Thing is, before the most recent update, I didn't NEED to go through all that.
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  Why are relationships between characters still not recognized and taken lightly in light novel and manga?
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  @Eternal-Wanderer idk man. It was my third at that day. I finished Marielle, Biblo. Princess and Whats goin... so they all looked same to me. Maybe you are right. I just got bored reading "similar" stories over and over again. Especially if its not isekai :D
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  What are your thoughts on protagonists buying/owning slaves?
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  @db0ssman said in What are your thoughts on protagonists buying/owning slaves?: I think I mostly fall into the camp of slavery in LN just feels like (potentially) pretty lazy trope like harems, OP protagonists, rape, or isekai. It's not to say those topics can't be tackled in meaningful ways that enhance the story, but usually, they are just an excuse to ignore having to set up something more intricate. In that sense, I usually don't think much about it when it comes up instead of having any kind of visceral reaction to it. Though if people are interested in this topic and why the Japanese seem to minimize slavery's effect a lot compared to other places I suggest you look up comfort women and Japan's activities in continental Asia in the first half of the 20th century. The TL;DR is that Japan invaded the continent and enslaved people by forcing them to work for a pittance or by calling them political prisoners/POWs and forced women into sexual slavery. Historically when confronted with this the official Japanese stance is that they were volunteers or prostitutes whose lives were bettered by what happened. When I was stationed in Korea (about 10 years ago), the Japanese government still never really accepted that any of this happened/took responsibility. Lazy maybe... but in the case of some of the NEETS or socially awkward characters, you can almost expect it... its hard to change, and it would make it more understandable why you would need a blank slate as a rule in a re-incarnation system. Damage to the brain and the spirit is something that can be really hard to break out of... (Doesn't explain the 'well adjusted' characters that seem to end up with 'slaves'.)
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  A Trope common in LN/Manga/Anime that I wish was real in real life.
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  that bookish-nerdy average guys somehow cause groups of desirable females to fight for his affections ...my high school days would've been much different
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  Newbie here, checking in
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  @Zaggeh ...Some pointless info... Sam(JNC founder) said he really wanted and tried to get Average but ended up loosing out to SS. For some reason I want to say it was because SS was able to offer print unlike JNC(at the time).
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  Vendor Experiences, physical books
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  I haven't bought any physical books through international delivery for a long time, mostly because I don't think the shipping's worth it unless it's an important textbook. When I do get manga/anime-related books though (like artbooks or databooks) I usually just order them through the nearest Kinokuniya because there's no need to pay crazy shipping costs. Looking at the list of countries though, obviously that only works if you live in the US, Australia or various Asian countries.