@Kurzaa another trick here if you want it: The forums are WPA-enabled. This means if you view the forums in a WPA-capable web browser (Chrome and Firefox will both do it) There'll be an "Install" option in the menu, and using it will put the forums icon on your home screen, and running it will run like a standalone app (not in your web browser).

@timefiddler A lot of it depends on who you are as a publisher, from what I can see. And how you publish things makes a difference, too.

If you go back in time, there has been a loooooonnnnggg discussion about who has which books. For several months, it was "difficult" to get some of the Demon Lord books in Germany because the covers were considered objectionable; Amazon.com had them, but Amazon.de did not. That applied to both print and electronic versions.

I sort of left that discussion behind, because I stopped buying the print editions, and getting the .epub versions direct from j-novel.club made more sense. Now, though, I buy print editions of Bookworm books, and my usual supplier doesn't exist anymore, so...

Neither colour illustrations nor any bonus premium content appears in the individual simulstream part releases.

You have to download the premium epub from JNC to get the illustrations, and this also often has an additional round of editing. The colour illustrations might appear at the end of the epub rather than the beginning.

JNC should make this clearer across the service as the following recent discussion threads indicate it's not clear enough:

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7456/resolved-j-novel-website-not-showing-illustrations-while-reading-on-browser

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7504/missing-entire-section-in-website-and-mobile-app-that-only-show-ups-in-epub

It is mentioned in the FAQ at https://j-novel.club/faq but in a slightly obscure way as it talks about simulstream parts and not explicitly the parts you can read when you buy a book from JNC.

Edit: Premium account gives you a monthly premium ebook voucher (aka 699 credits) and discounts on getting more credits. I read most JNC books as they stream and then get the epub of those I like for the illustrations and in some cases bonus stories. This allows me to take part in the discussion of the series as the parts are being released and means I don't go as long between reading a story and makes it easy for me to try out new series and those on catch-up without having to spend any credits. Others might prefer to wait for the epub to be out and just read the polished final version and see the colour illustrations at the same time as they read the novel for the first time. JNC supports both preferences.

@LightningLeaf said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 8 Discussion!:

@jcochran
Someone mentioned that the trick is to use the mobile device in landscape.

That someone said "try". I've tried and it doesn't work.

JNC Discord has a channel "#pre-pub discussion" where people discuss most of the prepubs, for that kind of multiple chat works very good.

That or individually check every series thread here.

There we go again. There are 20+ new items in the RSS feed, but only the last 15 are available through it.

(I think last time it had 20 items because the release time was slightly different for some items and so it was able to load them.)

@SpaceShorts While you may be correct. I don't agree completely. I speak two languages and I find dictionaries to mean jack shit by themselves. Dictionary is tool to help you understand words but it is not the true. I check several Dictionaries and I always seen to find additional meaning more than I like to. For example if I look for word in my language. Dictionaries would use more words to explain to explain the complexity of the word. But if you ask someone from my language to explain it. More than likely they would use one word to explain it complexity.

Additionally sometimes the author is very particular about certain words. So to us it may seen like the translantion spamming one word for convenience. But in reality the author really is the one spamming it.

I not saying you are wrong but that it is not clear cut.

See related discussion at https://forums.j-novel.club/post/319413

It would be handy if people got a notice the first time they read a part they owned suggesting they read the epub.

@snerdish So yeah, this turned out to be NordVPN's web filter, which I didn't know I even had installed. Fixed.

Wikipedia is often a good source for that info.

Oh, but this is rare! Two chapters in a row!
Young Lady Albert (manga) jumped ahead in both chapter 17 and 18.

I hate unnecessary clicking. More clicks is never a better design.

A way to separate "currently reading" titles from my list of favorited stuff would be nice. I'm starting to build quite the collection of favorited books, but going through them to find what I am currently reading among the titles that I have stalled, waiting on updates, or plan on reading.