Hi! I need some help!
I bought the e-book at ebookjapan, but I don’t see how I can download it. I can read it online though, but if I bought it I think I should be able to download it. Sorry for the silly question!!!
I’m afraid I have zero experience with eBooks, so someone else might be more help, but as far as I understand at least some eBook suppliers only let you read the book on their platform?
Similarly to how you can only read eBooks from Amazon on Kindle.
Yes, Radish is right, you can only read the books in the stores’ ebook readers unfortunately (there was some discussion about there might be a workaround for booklive? but I don’t know about it - maybe if you search the forums for old discussions, you can find something there…)
But for ebookjapan and BookWalker you definitely need their ebook readers.
I can read books/manga from Bookwalker on my computer or ipad or phone…
Ah sorry, I meant a software, not a hardware here.
So you need to download their application and then read the book in that.
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Thank you very much for your answers.
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A note about thread timings
For anyone who doesn’t know, I will be posting the weekly discussion threads on Friday evenings UK time.
This means they are ready for anybody further to the East starting on Saturday morning.
So don’t be surprised if you’re in the Americas and the threads pop up on Friday mornings 
they’re not early.
I’m actually going out this evening so the thread will likely be even earlier to make sure I don’t forget it altogether.
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face palm… I should have read that closer. Thank you for pointing it out!!!
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Yeah, eBookJapan provides their books in their own internal file format called .ebix. You can download the files locally so you can read them offline (at least on their newer Windows app; not sure about their other options offhand), but you can’t really use the files on any other reader.
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Okay, we have officially started!
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Thank you for the information. I’m not sure I will be able to do it though. I’m not very good at this kind of things and don’t see anything on the webpage that gives me a hint of how to do it.
Thanks for answering anyway!!
If you’re just trying to find their official reader apps, this is the Windows app, and this page links to their Android and iOS apps. (Note that the Android one, at least, is only available for Japanese Google Play accounts. Not sure about iOS.)
In the Windows app, you can right-click on books in your bookshelf and select 「本を読む」 to read them immediately while online. If you want to download them for offline reading, that right-click menu has the option 「本棚を編集」; expand that, and 「ダウンロード」 should be one of the options there. That will download the book; you can still only use it from the app itself, but it will be available without needing an internet connection. Downloaded books have a red stripe next to them.
I think you don’t need to do anything special in the Android version, since it looks like it automatically downloads the whole book locally when you read it. Not sure about iOS, but I’d guess the same is true there.
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Just picked up the book today…
My reaction when I saw this thread: 
My reaction when I opened the book 
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Ahaha the same for me!
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頑張れ and 我慢して! The first chapter is always the hardest!
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Oh great, now I have to look up 我慢… (Takoboto, my installed J2E dictionary app, and I are now officially on a first name basis.)
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Hey Read-Aloud-ers 
Currently only 12 people voted for the final reading time (only 8 of which agree on the same time slot…) - do the others really not want to have their say in picking a timeslot?
Please vote here if you are potentially or definitely interested in the read aloud session:
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Sorry, just voted. Got the book earlier this week and then completely forgot we were starting yesterday. Now I’m all cozy and warm in my bed and the books is somewhere else in the house. 
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I actually just have such an irregular schedule that it won’t make sense for me to vote… Would probably vote for all of them for lack of really knowing when I’ll be free… Will try to join in on this one one the next intermediate one (if we’ll carry it on), whenever I’m free though. Goals, right? 
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