What has changed in the epubs for a realist hero v1-19?
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So the other day the premium epubs for Realist Hero (LN) Volume 1-19 we all listed as updated. Does anyone know what was changed in them?
I don't think it's likely but I don't want to end up losing something if it's been removed for some licensing reason or something so I just want to check before I update the version I have already downloaded.
I really wish there would be some kind of update log posted somewhere when a book gets updated so we can see what was changed. -
@Perplexed Just doing a quick comparison, it looks like whole sections of text were re-edited with all kinds of minor changes, many of which seem to be to try to improve the flow of the text, e.g.
I paused before a door where a night-shift guard stood. I cleared my throat and knocked. “Uh, it’s me.”
became
I paused before a door where a night-shift guard stood. Clearing my throat, I knocked. “Uh, it’s me.”
And some of them seem to be changing how a character was addressed, e.g.
“Tomoe. How does the princess look from your perspective?”
became
“Lady Tomoe. How does the princess seem from your point of view?”
How much was altered does seem to vary from book to book, but an actual list of all of the individual changes would be enormous. So, at least with these changes, if they were to provide some sort of changelog, I wouldn't expect it to be very detailed.
I'm tempted to say that they completely re-edited all of the volumes except that many sections are untouched outside of some minor HTML changes which were likely just a result of generating the files again from whatever format they use as a source. So, I don't know how they decided which sections to rework, but the ones that they did rework have a lot of minor changes and there's no obvious reason for the changes other than simply looking to improve the text with an additional editing pass.
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I checked volume 1. But between
Ebook edition 1.1: May 2017andEbook edition 1.2: May 2026, the bonus stories have received substantial editing. I really only skimmed the changes but some of the stories looked like they may've gotten some additional paragraphs, but it could've just been that some of the longer paragraphs got edited into more shorter ones. I didn't notice any missing stories, so you're probably good there. -
Thanks for looking into what the changes are. I wonder if (given the print releases of each volume came out a little while after the ebook versions) it went through extra editing for print and this is just j-novel updating the books to match those print versions or something? And then while they were doing that they decided to review the bonus stories as well or something?
Otherwise it seems a bit odd to do a re-edit of most of the volumes after they have a print release already (Unless they only re-edited the bonus stories as I don't think they are part of the print releases?). -
@Perplexed this got bought up on discord and it was clarified
Because they were in the short story collection, we updated the text in the premium to match.
Essentially just JNC being nice and letting people have a better edited version in each volume.
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Ah that makes sense, @GeorgeMTO thanks for letting us know.
