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Yeah, seems like the text is the same just from looking a few pages into the previews. I have no idea why the price is different, but I don’t think it’s supposed to be a special offer. It if is part of a campaign or sale, there should be an end date right beside the price.
Here comes my proposed schedule. The book is divided in 5 chapters with a similar structure, but slightly different lengths. I suggest that we spend 3 - 4 weeks on each chapter.
Unfortunately I don’t have any physical page numbers, and the bookwalker editions do not have locations. I have added percentages to give you an indication where to stop each week.
If someone can provide the physical page numbers for the breakpoints I’ll be happy to add them to the table.
I just asked on the Bookwalker freebies thread yesterday and that seems to be the case (confusingly for digital). I compared the toc and page numbers - 100% the same, the second one is the “paperback” that came out a few years after hardback
Had some bad news today…ok, that sounds like someone died, let’s start over.
My offline, non-Japanese book club decided today that we’re going to read this book in May. So I‘ll have to somehow rush through this solo in the next 5 weeks, which means no opinion on the schedule.
I won’t be reading along, but hope to drop by for the discussion. I got this one as a gift in another language for christmas, so it feels a bit too soon for me to reread it
If wanted I could add a shared (writeable) excel table for vocab, but I will not be the one to fill it with data. So far the poll indicates that almost everyone will be reading one of the e-book versions, and those normally come with an inbuilt dictionary.
There’s a channel on their discord for this purpose, but when I made a request a year and a half ago, it never went through.
Another option, if you have the book as an epub file, is to create the deck manually. Steps to do that in this post
I had some problems converting my kindle file to an epub format, but now I have finally found the right step by step tutorial (and the correct plugin (beta-)versions!) and it finally worked. Now I will proceed with your instructions in the other post …
The version on Bookwalker doesn’t have furigana, does the Kindle one have? In case it’s possible for you to turn them off, the result would be even better (otherwise it can still be used as it is but a bit annoying)
(You could also consider deleting the mokuji before doing the import in JPDB, that way the first words are the first words of the first chapter)
I guess it’s the percentage that is throwing you off? It just shows how many words you already know from that deck, here is how it looks for me (I used JPDB a lot so I already have a lot of words marked as known)
I used calibre with 2 plugins to convert the book to epub, reading the file directly from the connected kindle device - therefore I don’t think that I can manage the displaying of furigana. I then converted it to a simple txt-format and hoped that this would eliminate the furigana - apparently it did not, but instead inserted the furigana character after each kanji.
Here is the first sentence of the text file:
彼氏ができた、と沙さ耶やからラインがきたので「どんな人？」と訊いたら、「医者」とだけ返ってきた。
So you see that the name 沙耶 (さや) has become 沙さ耶や.
The epub displays the furigana correctly (just as it is on kindle):
If you know an (easy to use) script to eliminate the furigana (from the epub file) I would give it a try.
I think there might be a way. Chances are that the furigana is encoded, something like 東芝 would look like that in the epub file:
<ruby>東芝<rt>とうしば</rt></ruby>
So with a regex we might be able to just replace all the tags by nothing, which means deleting them.
I’ll have a look at it this evening (Europe time) and get back to you if I can get a step by step working or if I can get Calibre to export without furigana
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here it is compared side to side with the first page of the book (I haven’t bought it but just opened the free preview)
