Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!
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@harmlessdave said in Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!:
I might try Sorcerer's Receptionist again though the premise of dreaming of being a guild clerk and spending years training for it didn't appeal to me.
Once she actually gets there, we learn that their concept of "receptionist" isn't at all like what we think of in the modern world, and you really do need to be an extremely powerful mage with a good head on your shoulders and lots of knowledge in your head to pull off the job properly. So don't let the "spending years in school to become a receptionist" bit scare you away.
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@harmlessdave I try to ignore premium editions considering I'm too dumb to figure out how to download them
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@abemania said in Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!:
@harmlessdave I try to ignore premium editions considering I'm too dumb to figure out how to download them
We can help! :)
What do you use for reading, and do you have a PC or mac?
(Hmm, is there a FAQ with a set of recipes for different devices somewhere? If not, perhaps there should be. I has a sad at people missing out on good content.)
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@harmlessdave said in Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!:
What do you use for reading, and do you have a PC or mac?
I know I'm not who you asked, but I use Moon+ Reader Pro on an Android tablet, and I direct-download the epubs from JNC directly to my tablet, no desktop/laptop required.
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@pcj said in Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!:
@harmlessdave said in Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!:
What do you use for reading, and do you have a PC or mac?
I know I'm not who you asked, but I use Moon+ Reader Pro on an Android tablet, and I direct-download the epubs from JNC directly to my tablet, no desktop/laptop required.
That's what I mean about it being nice if we had a collection of how-tos in one place for different (device, device, reader app) combinations to send people to.
For Premium, I download to PC then use the free Calibre software to copy the books to my Kindle e-ink reader but other people read on iPad, iPhone, Android tablets & phones, non-kindle e-ink readers.
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@harmlessdave
Oh this intrigues me, I have read a good chunk (like 6 volumes) of realist hero then just fell off, but now it seems that I must open thine wallet and buy another series, seeing as how I own all of black summoner right now. -
Hm. Might give Black Summoner a try, and Occultic;Nine if I'm in the mood... Well if nothing else I can reread Receptionist ^^ Fingers crossed that its WN sequel eventually gets enough content to be made into another LN volume.
To anyone checking out The Sorcerer's Receptionist who is unsure of how they feel about the central romance, I volunteer a mini-analysis I wrote some months ago to provide an alternate perspective. In terms of spoilers, even though it's in the V2 discussion, it only covers events that happen in V1, as it was originally written for manga readers. To give a spoiler-free summary: "this isn't a story of one-sided bullying - it's mutual antagonism."
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Okay, I feel like I remember someone recommending Receptionist in another series discussion (maybe Great Cleric?) so I'm gonna start with that. Might give Black Summoner a try as well, and then once I'm done with them, touch on Realist Hero. Leaving it for last because based on everything I've heard about the series, if I do enjoy it, I'm highly likely to buy the volumes and if not, I probably won't want to read them all this month anyway.
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@harmlessdave said in Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!:
@pcj said in [Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!].
That's what I mean about it being nice if we had a collection of how-tos in one place for different (device, device, reader app) combinations to send people to.
For Premium, on an iPad, I download with the browser and share it from there with Apple Books. It automatically synchs it with Apple drive and can then read on my other apple devices.
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Is Occultic Nine complete? The anime was nice, I'm curious to read the novel too if it has a conclusion.
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@lex It isn't. It was a nice read, but it's not complete at all.
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@jaquobus thanks for the answer.
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Receptionist was a nice read. Wataru was underrated but does require a particular sense of humor.
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@harmlessdave I read on an Android phone
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@abemania said in Get Ready to Fall for August Catchups!:
@harmlessdave I read on an Android phone
See @pcj 's note above. You can try buying a premium edition of something you like that has bonus content (see my link), then using the download button, then opening it in any ebook reader app that supports EPUB format like Moon Reader.
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@harmlessdave Had so much trouble last time but now it works fine. Just have to decide what premium versions to get
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@georgemto
gets most of the way through Receptionist vol 1 and is really enjoying it
checks premium epubs list - sees bonus short stories in all 3 volumes
has exactly 3 credits in stock because I always purchase in groups of 10 to minimise international transaction fees
Well I guess that's a sign
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@myskaros is Side by Side Dreamers the author’s debut novel? I can see a lot of influence of this in Otherside Picnic. Lots of ideas that were sort of glossed over here became much more fleshed out in that series.
One thing I notice is that she likes to write dreamscapes where normal logic doesn’t apply. Makes for some trippy reading.
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@anony-mouse99 Doing a quick search on Amazon JP, no, he's written other novels, and Otherside Picnic vol. 1 also came out earlier than Side-By-Side Dreamers.
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@myskaros I see. Thanks for the info. In that case I guess both book/series draw from the same source of inspiration then, but for different audience/age groups.
