Thanks! Glad that people enjoy the app.

@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.

@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

@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'.)

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

@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).

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.

@Jon-Mitchell Thank you, I had no idea this was going on. I will have to check it out at some point.

This book series is controversial - people either love it or hate it - but "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig is what I would recommend to start seriously studying kanji. I've worked with the first volume on and off, and when I was doing the exercises every day I could feel my grasp of kanji growing. I know someone, a fellow American, who sat down and worked with Remembering the Kanji for six months straight, and now she can read almost anything in Japanese. I mean, she studied Japanese before that and knew the basics already, but RTK was what put her over the top for kanji comprehension.

how about Shiro Alice? it's a mix of Alice in Wonderland and Snow White.

I only buy digital, so there are no problems with going out of print. I'll almost always buy new volumes of series I'm reading as they come out. The exception is that I've sometimes (not often) waited to buy something when I know it's part 1 of a 2-3 part story arc. Then I might decide to wait until that arc is closer to being fully released.

Physical books are great. I love them. I've got a whole bunch of books in physical form, and I like the way books feel in the hand. That being said... physical space being a thing I'm not necessarily in possession of in great amounts, and given the easy availability of both data storage space and the lower price (especially for TTRPG volumes, which are often more than half the price), I prefer digital. Buying extra space for digital books is as easy as getting an external hard drive or a new SD card. It's really nice. Really, really nice. Even if I do need to swap to a bigger SD card on my phone to keep growing my library, because I have so many digital books that I've had to remove other apps to keep all my stuff on my phone.

@nofairytale said in (Unofficial) Android/Win10 Rokujouma Reader. Nice Things status: can not be had.: On a phone it's no big deal, but would make a big difference in comfort on an ereader. I was historically trying to simply use system theme but apparently it's not even a thing on android because fuck consistency let's make everyone reinvent paint the wheels. I was trying to make dark and light themes work recently but without android 10+ I can't even test it properly. You aren't supposed to stay in those menus too long anyway and actual reader has color options (whole two of them).

@TheGrimLich Not that much, he regularly screws up at the start but generally, he makes it up by the end, making the people he bothered a constellation or a god. He wasn't revered as the savior god by the greek for nothing. The joke works with any thunder god anyway, but I doubt there any major mythology where the gods aren't massive a**hole at times, from Babylonian to Christian it's kind of a constant.

yea, I'm torn for physicals - I've restricted my purchases to what I'm going to have as part of my 'permanent' collection, and there's only so much space (and $$) I have one collection of books in my living room, most leather bound (or have the look of leather bound) a lot of classic sci fi/fantasy, some limited editions, signed by author etc. A second collection is in my office (and is about to get purged) hardcover book club editions, mass market paperbacks etc. I have about 2x what I want to keep. (and that will give me space to add more LN physicals of which I only have a few) That being said - I like the cover art to invoke the 'spirit' of the story dark/somber or light/humorous - I especially like when a series has cover art that themselves have a theme over the series of volumes (introductions of characters, or featured character on each volume doing something that relates to previous/next-- like the art has its own arc)- Shomin Sample, does this well as does Rokojouma. I'm not such a purist that cover art...needs to be on the cover, I'd buy leather(ette) bound Bookworm editions that had minimalist cover/spine art (like just Rozemynes crest) as long as all the art was inside

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Sad day, I didn't know Sol Press had such a rep. I hope they turn things around. I'm still waiting on the physical copies of the first three volumes.