If you decide to continue reading, I highly recommend using the ttsu reader + yomitan extension.
You can read more about this reader here:
You can keep track of how much you read here too.
But I don’t know if this works on phones. I only do this on pc.
It does work on Android, but not iPhone. I use it + yomitan to mine sentences while reading from my phone, and it keeps my reading progress in sync between devices. I also recommend it.
I spent a bit of time exploring other media options like Manga/Novels and got a few sources imported into Book Manager | ッツ Ebook Reader. I realized only after importing did I take the English translated copy of a manga rather than raw 
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I gave また、同じ夢を見ていた a try, testing my Yomitan setup. First paragraph was tough haha. While I could “read” through it, I’d find myself wanting to do lookups to confirm the grammar.
For example - 小学生なりの小さな手 .
I don’t think I’ve encountered the usage of なりの yet in Bunpro, but just kind of guessing there’s some comparison between 小学生 and 小さな手 here. ( Ended up looking it up on Bunpro as i’m writing this lol )
Yomitan was great for vocab. It was interesting to see things like 校庭, where I could just make a guess on the meaning based off the kanji and then have Yomitan confirm. For the time allocated to reading today, it was interesting but also painful. Time definitely flew by. The novel might be a bit much for my first serious reading attempt (aside from the beginner graded readers yesterday). I think tomorrow I might try experimenting with Manga.
I’ve been studying Japanese on and off for a while (cause I do tend to burn out, haha) and I’m still only halfway through N5, but I recommend using SRS in conjunction with other learning as, if you don’t, you’re never going to properly reinforce your learning. I don’t think it should be your primary source, but it is always good to mix things up a little. Especially if you get bored!
I bought the Genki I textbook and am working my way through that. Textbooks can be a slog, though, so I like to switch it up with various things. I watch a few YouTubers (CureDolly is a good one) and I highly recommend the Tadoku graded readers. I’m still only at level 1, but reading a book or two each night before I go to sleep really reinforces what I have been learning. Because my end goal is reading, I have bought a lot of books regarding particle, verb and adjective usage, plus a couple of dictionaries, Kanji and short story books. I don’t always use all of them, and some can be quite dry, but they are there if I need them.
It’s a slow journey for me, but I always get that hit of endorphins when I’m reading a book and recognise the kanji and understand the meaning of a sentence without having to look up every second word lol.
wow this is life changing
thank you!
I kept converting ebooks to html so I can open them in a browser instead 
nice job! You seem to have adapted to a bunch of different learning methods/resources. Textbooks really are a slog lol. Reading before bed sounds really nice. I’ve only just begun setting things up on my computer, but I do want to set something up on mobile once I am more familiar 
I get enough screen time during the day, so I actually bought the hard copy books of the Tadoku graded readers when I was first starting out. I’ve always preferred an actual book to reading from a screen, though it does make looking up kanji or translations a bit more difficult and you can’t use things like Yomitan. I have to add words to my Anki deck manually. 
My experience of learning kanji and using the Wanikani list of vocab is that levels 50-60 are a bit unnecessary. After level 50 you’re better off mining words you don’t understand and adding them to your SRS. I’d even suggest doing this after level 40.
Bunpro’s reading SRS is really good, because there are so many example sentences of a word usage that even if you spend a lot of time doing SRS, you build up grammar and reading proficiency.
Even thought I have a lot of Kanji under my belt I still have Wanikani to fill in all those Kanji gaps I have, and am going at a snails pace with it because quite frankly, Wanikani is very mind numbing.
Too many reviews, mastered material you can’t skip, a system that forces you to learn it their way. It’s still very good, but very mind numbing.
Trust me, I’ve been stuck in an SRS loop before. Sometimes for years at a time. If you feel bad about not immersing, I’ll just be straight up with you; you should feel bad about not doing it. Feeling bad about not doing it means that you’re still humble enough to realize that you probably need it. It’s hard to know where to start, but even 10 min a day is better than nothing. Start small, then go big.
I’d slowly try and shift your time from Wanikani → Anki, take some time to really setup your own custom flow in Anki, even if it takes days or a week to get it really right.
I’m 47 in wanikani and I’m not sure if you’ve experienced it already but for me the amount of ‘new’ stuff I’m getting there is very low.
Also get on immersion asap, you can snoop my old posts if you’d like as I wrote a mini guide to get started with Anime in response to someone else in a similar position to you
Absolutely, WK kinda just feels like counting down until I’m done right now. I’ve been putting some time into reading the last few days and while it’s rough, I’m hoping i’ll be putting more and more time into it as things get easier. It does feel more difficult to grind time on reading as opposed to the mind numbing SRS reviews lol
I’ll take a look 
. I currently have Yomitan setup but was planning to set it up with Anki this weekend. I’m pretty close to finishing Kaishi, so I may wait before mining and do quick Yomitan lookups to keep the flow of reading going.
Do you see yourself finishing WK? Lvl 50 seems like a nice spot, just to have the 100% coverage up to N2, but that’s more just a personal goal than it being practical.
Bunpro sentences really are great. For the last while I’ve turned off the English translations and use the nuance hints to figure out what they want, only showing the translation when I’m struggling. Takes me more time but it makes me think a lot more about what I’m typing. There’s still some reliance here as I don’t think I’m at the level where I can just turn everything off unfortunately.
Levels 40-60 does seem to be just there for completion at this point. It’ll be another month before I hit 40 so if I can keep up with my current reading until then, I should have a better idea on my goals
I’ll finish it, there’s a LOT of things I don’t like about it. About a year ago I even decided to write (just for myself) all the positives/negatives about it and they were even slightly more negative. But I’ve spent enough time on it already that it’s just part of my stack I go through.
As for N2 and so on I’d be dubious on it covering everything. I passed N3 last year with vocab far past whats required, and there was still 1 word I’d never seen before in the ‘choose the correct hiragana reading’ section (was some non common word related to trains specifically being out of action). Which was not in my personal learning or wanikani
nice, actually thinking about this more:
shift your time from Wanikani → Anki
Once I hit lvl 40, I’ll limit my new lessons to ~15/day. From what I’ve read before, this should increase my level up time to every ~2 weeks. The thought of halving my workload on WK sounds really nice haha.
But I’ve spent enough time on it already that it’s just part of my stack I go through.
I feel the same atm lol. For how much time and effort I’ve put into the program, I don’t think I’m ready to just quit. I want to complete it one day, even if it’s at a slower pace