J-Novel Membership Question
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If you buy a membership do you get to read every novel on the site or is it just parts of some novels and you have to actually pay for them to be able to finish them?
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You get access to the latest volume of anything being actively translated. All other volumes you have to buy Premium Credits for ($6-7) which you can redeem for the DRM-free Premium Edition Epubs. Each month also typically has catch-up series which are volumes unlocked for people to catch-up on a specific series. Outside of this, Rokujouma is always accessible.
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If you get premium membership you get a free credit each 15th of the month which you get use to buy a volume of your choice as long as it’s published not so sure about pre orders as I barely use my credits.
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@aruseus493 Alright, Thank you!
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@hyferzftw Thanks!
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@hyferzftw I've successfully preordered once using a credit I acquired from being a premium member, so uh, that's that I guess.
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I've got three premium EPUB pre-orders in my library atm so I hope it works! The next Dendro is like a day away so I'll know soon enough.
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I always "preorder" arifureta, realist and paladin never a problem. Thou you might have to wait for the release, as it happens that a volume gets delayed a day without an update in the library. Also the release is not fixed at a certain time. Sam stated in some thread that he manually uploads the new books. So just be patient ;)
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Thanks, I wasn't stressing or anything. Nico said it works so I assumed it was fine, I just haven't seen it work myself yet (only realised pre-ordering on premiums was possible about a week or so ago)
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What happens to the ebooks I purchase after my membership is expired
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@arcelio It will remain in your library, unless J-Novel lost the license for the title, which it will get taken down then. Well, better keep a copy on your drive.
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@arcelio As long as you keep your account (whether you have an active membership or not), you'll continue to have access to download all the books in your "my library".
If in the future we lose the license for a title or the license expires, we'll no longer be able to let you redownload the epub anymore, so please make sure you download and keep a local copy somewhere safe too!
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Just to be safe, I have the copy on my system and a backup stored in a cloud account.
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@cimmadif Always on my Surface and on my NAS.
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I keep a copy on my phone and one on my tablet. Hadn't thought about backing it up to cloud storage. Might do that too.
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Backup all the things! Multiple copies at home & at least one off-site for "shit, the house burnt down" or "all my tech gear got rained on/flooded/stolen" situations.
Used to do disaster recovery for small/medium businesses (not my main job but it always fell to me) - you wouldn't believe how many think a) RAIDx is a backup b) tapes work fine so long as you swap them every day. What do you mean check the job worked & do a test restore? c) but the NAS/USB drive clones the whole server at night, what do you mean it clones corrupted data too? We have two so one is offsite at night so the other one would have that file from a month ago, yeah? etc
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@smashman42 True enough. Industry standards are to have at least one off-site backup.
