Book collector rehab (actually reading what you own accountability thread)

Japanese
#363

Today I looked at my ‘Japanese books that are still too advanced for me’ pile and checked through them - none of them are quite possible for me to read yet, but I think I’m close on at least one or two!

I also read a chapter of ロゼッタの絵本 which is absolutely adorable, and two chapters of ミラーさん. And two more Genki readers.

Might start reading the second volume of よつばと! after dinner… but I might just veg out at my pc instead.

As for my English book backlog: I’ve finally received, started and finished reading Howl’s Moving Castle, and I absolutely loved it. The next book in the series, Castle in the Sky, is awaiting me tonight. Looking forward to it!

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#364

Yeah, seeing stuff in context is really helpful for me too - kind of the exact point of doing immersion learning, I suppose :sweat_smile:

という our beloved? beloathed?
Or ちゅう if you have an over the top level of 関西弁-prone and casual as all get out character, thanks Heiji…

Ominous sentence out of context, for sure :smiley:

You’ll get there soon! 頑張れ！

I don’t have a reading update right now, BUT. It has officially hit 時間つぶし at work! So at the moment I’m catching up on some wk and bp that I fell behind on, but then I am theoretically going to have lots of time to try and tackle more reading.

I brought the first volume of a couple different things (青の祓魔師、葬送のフリーレン、暁のヨナ、佐々木と宮野) to try out so I can decide which one I wanna focus on getting through next. Fingers crossed!

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#365

My update this week is that I did a whole lotta nothing. Very little studying outside of daily Wani and homework for the tutor. Which means I have a massive backlog of Anki to do too. Mostly just felt out of it for studying so did the basics and had some convos throughout the week but no major reading. I have the time so Ill probably start again here soon. I used to a do thing were I read until 15 new words but with the update in how Im studying Ill probably do that again but just do 5 words. Since Im doing so many other things too for word mining.

Same for me this week. Third Year students are taking their Highschool exams and 2nd and 1st years are taking national exams. So Im using it to get through all my Anki and other generic stuff I need to do.

I love that the book report was your idea too lmao. Reading none the less though so all good.

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#366

I haven’t gotten quite as much reading as I’d like done so far this year but oh well. Right now I should be at 5 volumes of New Game, 1 of スケッチブック, and 1 of 君が僕らを悪魔と呼んだ頃 since late December. First two are comfy 4koma series, the latter seems like it’ll be a bit of an edgefest but that’s cool once in a while too. Pretty close to finishing New Game (four more volumes) and スケッチブック (three more including the extras volume) so I’ll probably finish those before I get distracted again.

スケッチブック is probably the worst thing to happen to my Anki deck though, the author loves to make jokes based on obscure biology terms and insect/fish/plant names and I feel the urge to look up all of them and add them to my Anki deck way too often.

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#367

Are you liking スケッチブック? I’ve actually watched the anime a few times before and was excited when I got some of the volumes for free on Bookwalker, then I found out it was a 4koma and noped right out of it. :sweat_smile: Idk what it is, but I’ve never given a 4koma a chance.

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#368

It always feels like a volume of 4koma takes significantly longer to read than a volume of standard manga to due to text density so I get it. A lot of the time it indicates no ongoing plot either, although there’s very much exceptions. I’m liking スケッチブック, I watched the anime some years ago and decided to pick it up and read it slowly, probably averaging a volume a month while I read other things. Very comfy if not an easy read, the author loves making obscure puns and I still haven’t memorized all the Hakata-benisms that show up with a few characters.

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#369

Today’s update!

Yesterday I finished up the aoex volume I had started, so that was about 2/3 of a volume, and the last chapter and a half or so of a コナン volume that I started a while ago.

As for today, I got through the entirety of フリーレン volume one in pretty much a straight shot, which took me around 2 hours and has me feeling rather cross-eyed at the moment. I’ve still got like 3 hours before I head home for the day so I’ll try to do some more reading before I do, but I definitely need a bit of a break first.

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#370

After reading around 130 pages of the novel 余命一年の君が僕に残してくれたもの this week, I decided to get the audiobook on Audible.co.jp
unfortunately I couldn’t find the exact same book so I’m putting it on hold and I’ve decided to start and finish 余命一年と宣告された僕が、余命半年の君と出会った話-オーディオブック It’s on audible and I’ve bought the kindle version to read it along the audio from the audiobook. It takes 8 hours to read it entirely and since it’s Thursday, I need to spend 2 hours per day to completely read it until sunday.
Here’s my readlist for the upcoming weeks:
[君はどう生きるか] (already red it when I was N3 so need to get a second reading with audiobook as I enjoyed it)
『かがみの孤城』 (Kagami no Kojou) — Mizuki Tsujimura
『博士の愛した数式』 (Hakase no aishita suushiki) — Yoko Ogawa
『木曜日にはココアを』 (Mokuyoubi ni wa kokoa wo) — Michiko Aoyama

Keep you updated next week !!

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#371

Hi everyone, just a quick question, where do you log your library? I was debating Google sheets or Natively but didn’t know if you had a recommendation.

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#372

I finally finished the second Nancy Drew book. I burned through the last 25% of it this week, which lets me know that I really could’ve been reading it faster if I had really wanted to. :sweat_smile:

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#373

For actual like, “wait what do I already own-” purposes I have a memo on my phone that I update periodically :laughing:, but that’s because there’s a couple things I own that I can’t find on natively, plus I have a couple of English translated webnovels, etc.

I do like natively’s grading/level system, so I go back in every so often to add any new manga and update which ones I’ve read. It’s just not my main “list” so to speak, so I don’t stress out if it’s not a perfect match for my library.

Today’s update! Well, and a continuation of yesterday’s:

  • After I posted yesterday, I went through and read the first volume of 佐々木と宮野, although if I’m being entirely honest I think I was still so fried from one-shotting the first Frieren that I didn’t catch all the details. Then I got through about the first third of 暁のヨナ.
  • Today, I finished up the last 2/3 of ヨナ - I don’t know if it’s because I’ve already seen the anime or what, but it’s not quite as hard to get through as Frieren.
    That said, once I finished with ヨナ I went ahead and read through the second volume of Frieren that my friend lent me. I pretty much did it in one shot again, but it doesn’t have me feeling quite as fried as yesterday did. I think it’s just because there’s a little more action and a little less exposition in this volume, though.

I don’t know that I’ll have the stamina to read multiple volumes every day like this for the entire break between semesters, but it’s at least good practice! I might do some alternating with like, Let’s Plays or something to get some listening in there as well and give my eyes a break, lol.

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#374

FINALLY finished my first manga volume for the year! Finished the first volume of からかい上手の高木さん / Teasing Master Takagi-san today! It was a part of my big Bookoff haul from my trip to Japan nearly two years ago.

One down! And, uh, many more to go…

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#375

I’m a little late but I log mine on Library thing. I can add ebooks and physical books manually or by scanning the 978- barcode, can sort into series, manually add collections (I do manga, novels, light novels, non fiction and children’s books) and can add tags and language (for if you have books in more than one language, eg I have Spanish, English and Japanese books).

I like that I can search for books on there to see if I have it, can also see at a glance how many I have from a series or the order they should be in (detective Galileo series) and can find them via the cover too.

It’s free and has a free app (both android and iOS) but you need to manually add books though the website and the barcode scanner is only on phones/ tablets.

I wanted my book titles in Japanese and this was one of the few where I could type Japanese in the fields. There’s also a lot of customization options and a handy how to guide for almost everything on the site. You can also add random stuff but it may not populate anything other than the info you put in - eg if you are adding web-novels and such.

I do use natively for tracking books read etc but I needed something I could check quickly and when out and about to see if I had certain books. Some of them aren’t on natively because there’s no amazon listing for it but I can still add it to library thing without issues.

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#376

Speaking of that, anyone with a Learnnatively account want to stalk each other on there? That way we can really hold each other accountable. :smiling_imp:

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#377

https://learnnatively.com/user/Neon_Kitsune/jpn/

Have at it!

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#378

https://learnnatively.com/user/ジェシー/jpn/

This is my learn natively account, if it doesn’t come up then try searching for the user ジェシー

I really need some accountability, I received the full set of delux FMA in Japanese today and I really want to read them, so I have to work hard!!

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#379

https://learnnatively.com/user/Cafelatte/jpn/

pls b my friend

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#380

Going to go raid the library and just grab 2-3 kindergarten level readers. been a pretty rough week in terms of motivation, so I need some easy wins. I read a bit of that 語彙 manga/ dictionary thing that i posted on discord. it’s interesting but it’s word rarity rating seems pretty flawed, or at least focused at middle school. the characters are pretty mean, too. so that’s a plus. (calling a nerd “repellant to the opposite sex” for example to teach a word.)

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#381

There’s a discord?? :0

#382

Yessir. Check the bottom of the page on your Bunpro dashboard.

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