🦕 ギャルと恐竜・ Gal and Dino (Absolute Beginner Book Club)

Yeah I wanted us to have a few weeks of full chapter weeks before we vote on pacing for the rest of the club. I was thinking of putting a poll either next week or the following to figure out what people want to do.

You can also make sure you have the ABBC club thread to watching since that will have announcements for all of scheduling.

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Thank you for the reply :cherry_blossom:

Just to be sure, it’s this thread, correct?

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It is indeed.

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Hello! I’m looking to get into reading for the first time. I just bought Hunter x Hunter on Bookwalker after seeing it on this bookclub list. Is it normal for the furigana to be this fuzzy when zooming in? It’s barely readable for me. I used the website’s zooming click button, it’s at 300%. I’m using macbook.

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yeah, i think unfortunately so. at least—I just confirmed for Polar Bear Café that at 300% zoom on my mac in both Safari and Chrome the furigana are similarly a little pixellated and match the size that you see here. on the iPad app, I can zoom in further, but it remains pretty pixellated.


however, this is not the end. if the usual text is a visually ok size for you and you need to look up a word but can’t understand the furigana, i’d suggest using a dictionary that allows you to draw in the kanji. I use the Shirabe Jisho app (iOS). this will benefit from you knowing the general stroke order rules for writing kanji, but fortunately those are pretty simple.

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Furigana have been pretty blurry for me with gyaru and dinosaur. I usually resort to looking it up

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Thank you very much :cherry_blossom:

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Week 6 is here! Please be sure to vote for our reading pace going forward in this week’s thread.

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Week 7 time!

Also, don’t forget to vote for pacing. I’m planning to close the poll when I post next week’s thread.

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Week 8 time!

We have the results from our pacing poll and the people have spoken, but I’m actually not going to listen to the people :sweat_smile:

Since we split the vote right down the middle, I’m actually going to have us do the third option. That will give some of our slower pace voters a bit more time with our one chapter a week, but we will eventually speed on up to finish the club out.

And after people see how much text is on a few of the pages in this chapter I think people will agree that one chapter a week for a bit longer isn’t the worst thing in the world.

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Week 9!

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Week 10 is here!

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I know I’m very late to all of this and not savvy. I tried the Amazon link but it won’t let me purchase the kindle version in the USA. What to do?

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I think your only option is to move to Japan, have fun!

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To purchase digital books on amazon jp you actually need an entirely separate Amazon account with a different email etc. If you’re using a Kindle you would then have to log out of your regular account and into your alternate amazon jp account. It may also require a Japanese address, I’m not sure. I would Google around a bit for explanations on how to purchase amazon jp books on kindle.

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They have gotten stricter this year. My Amazon Japan was working well until the end of December. Then, I tried to buy a book and it told me there was something wrong with my tablet settings and I couldn’t buy books anymore (I don’t have a Kindle, but the account was set up using my husband’s family address). I tried a few things, and Amazon wouldn’t let me change the country to Mexico or buy books with the Japanese address.

Basically, it was too difficult to fix easily, so I switched to Bookwalker, which has allowed me to get the books I want with no issues, and I got a substantial discount on my second purchase with Bookwalker.

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Thanks for the clarification, I don’t use Kindle books for Japanese myself. I’ve definitely heard of people getting locked out of amazon jp accounts sadly :pensive_face: I’ve used Bookwalker for a few years with no issues.

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Week 11!
Reminder that this is our final single chapter week. Next week we’ll read the next two chapters.

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Week 12 is here, and our first two chapter week! We’ve got this! :flexed_biceps:

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It’s our penultimate week!

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