I saw the new redesign yesterday and could not find the releases for that day. Ended up just using the mobile app, and found that the clean old site is still used for mobile browsers this morning. It honestly looks like some one asked an ai chat bot to design a mobile friendly site and it went with all the worst ideas. Then they made it the desktop site instead of mobile.

I like being able to quickly see upcoming releases which the mobile app does not show, and then looking at recent releases because I read several things I haven't favorite. Gaint banners with useless information or suggesting I reread last weeks prepub do nothing but annoy me into considering if I should spend my money somewhere else.

I didn't like the artstyle for the manga so I dropped it pretty quick. I think the LN is always the best choice if you can get into it though since both the manga and anime will make choices on what to omit. You also have to be wary that sometimes manga for series ends up being like a preview for the LN and they'll just end it all of a sudden.

@GeorgeMTO said in Premium membership:

@Bluelou did you sign up before or after the 15th of June?

@Bluelou’s profile page says “signed up 8 days ago”, so after seems correct…

Volume 4 came out this month in Japan. https://bookwalker.jp/def7b81fcf-c4a0-4e1e-908c-b485a528459f/

Volume 4 Cover

@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

They didn't specify that the song Rozemyne sung was from an anime. Does anyone recognize the tune as coming from any anime? I suspect it does not, which would be disappointing.

I suppose it would have been cheaper if they had gone meta and used Bookworm's own music. 8-)

@Almond-Magnum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

They also had Wilfried sing the same song, which makes no sense for several reasons:

They did do a decent job of having the earlier kids playing a simpler version of the song. Not sure if that's how they did it but the earlier kids sounded like they were plucking single notes while Myne was doing arpeggiated chords (plus singing. Actually, Myne sounded like she got extra background instruments for a fuller sound). Sadly, Myne was not depicted as "in the moment" when the blessing came out. She was just business as usual and then surprised.

Stick this story to my veins!

@Everbright Just letting you know that if you don't read any other J-novel series with you subscription, you can cancel your subscription and just preorder SSC3 when the prepub starts. This also gives you access to the prepubs.

@doceirias yeah I know, the story makes heavy use of that pun in both meanings, and I use the title used on mangadex.

If you think it's already polished enough to release to the general public as a paid novel, you do have the option of self-publishing through the Amazon kindle store.

For that you'd probably want to have had a professional editor go through and point out any problems with it.

For sharing a web novel for free, the suggestions above make sense.

@unowhoitis said in Library Wars series:

@camytang bumping this older thread bc one of the manga adaptations I think has several volumes in english but not the complete series,

Viz’s website says that they published volume 1 in June 2010 and v15 in April 2016. I bought them as they were coming out.

and the source material light novels have never been translated! it would be really cool and it’s not too big of a commitment (only 4 books? although there’s a spinoff). really socially relevant rn too.

I’d love to see it, but I’m not optimistic for the LNs. We’ll see. :)

@Sean-O-Hara still waiting for the original no. 6 novels plus the new sequel series to be licensed in english…we need it so badly!!!!