That’s also a book I wanted to read but never did. 
You probably saw me adding those books to bookmeter’s 読みたい本 a long time ago when there weren’t so much people there and that’s why you noticed 
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Nicole just has a crazy memory. It’s that precision German engineering at work
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I wish! Unfortunately it doesn’t work nearly as well for the truly important stuff like kanji and Japanese vocab 
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Officially moved back from Japan so I’ll join this challenge for real! I’ve got the novelization of 竜とそばかすの姫 as my first goal because I watched the movie and missed some details that I’m dying to know more about. My goal for this year is pretty low, but I’m hoping that’ll keep it manageable.
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Finished arc 5 of One Piece - I was pleasantly surprised that this one left things unresolved for a change. 
Very nice.
Other than that I don’t have too much to say about this one. It was very short, and just about fast paced enough. I’m a fan of how things are starting to feel bigger, somehow, too.
In all, I’m having much more fun with this for longer than I would have thought!
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So, my keikaku can possibly shatter after all 
5th volume of HameFura finally bored me, and when I set my goal I assumed that this series will be my quick quantity reading and I don’t really have any other good replacement.
I still think I’ll come back to it, but I need a break and this break may not end this year.
And I don’t want to force it by searching for something which only value would be “quick”. I’ll just switch to things that are interesting, but may take me longer, even if I don’t make my goal this way.
And anyway, even easy book isn’t quick if you are bored and get distracted all the time 
As about 5th HameFura itself.
So, I complained about slow pacing last time. And this volume is all about short stories which happen during the previous volumes timeline.
And they contain some new info, some new insights or a new perspectives, just… it all feels awfully stretched out. It’s all recap with some new bits. It would be okay as a bonus story at the end of normal volume, but when it’s a whole volume… It felt like recap anime epidoes.
And maybe it wouldn’t be bothering me that much if the pace was fine previously. But since even earlier I had a feeling that author is afraid of breaking a comfortable status quo and even if characters are growing up, nothing really changes within their relationships… it was especially tiring.
I wonder how it would feel not-in-Japanese. It would go quicker, certainly, but on the other hand I wouldn’t have an added bonus of “yay! I’m reading in Japanese!” 
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New Bookwalker feature: full color manga optimized for mobile phone. Here’s some free samples of やがて君になる.
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Agreed, volume 5 was a drag…
On the plus side, things are fun again for volumes 6-8. Volumes 9-10 sadly aren’t that good either (although, still better than volume 5).
Still, volume 11 is coming out in 2-3 weeks. Hype
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Ohh, colored manga 
With how the panels are spaced, it feels like reading a webtoon. I like it!
Scrolling on phone: When I scroll slowly (by dragging my finger across the whole screen) it’s fine, but it’s kinda laggy / not smooth when I scroll faster (swiping while barely touching the screen). With how much empty space there are between each panel I can’t help but quickly swiping to get past it so I can read the next panel. I hope they’ll optimize faster scrolling a bit more.
But otherwise, super cool! (Not entirely sure what to think about the coupon method though. )
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By the way, I just took all the chapters covering arc 5, divided the number of published chapters (from the webnovel) by the number of books published in that arc 6, and divided the number of remaining chapters by that number, and I get 5.4 volumes, this reaching 32.4 (smack in the middle of the predicted range!)
Considering that the end of every arc has a lot of extra chapters, I can really see the author doing that as well with the last volume to fill the remaining space (thus 33 volumes total), potentially making a bridge towards the spin off series.
Anyway, that means exactly 2 years left until the end of the main series.
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Isn’t “feature” a bit misleading? It’s just a new way of selling by chapters for a specific catalogue. With the annoying ticket feature 
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At first I thought you meant they optimized the reader for all color manga .
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I mean, it is a new feature. They had to do work to optimize manga for this mobile scrolling approach. Also, what does “optimized the reader for all color manga” even mean?
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For me, a feature would imply it would somehow add to the current experience. But this is a completely different store. Maybe I’m thinking it too much from a software perspective, but it feels weird to me.
That’s why I was so confused! But how are these chapters optimised for mobile, anyway? Just the scrolling? I thought maybe you could read all the manga that way now.
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I think they took a single page and had to split it in order to show continuous panels. The phone screen is thinner than the physical manga pages after all.
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Just finished 京都寺町三条のホームズ vol. 2, which brings me to seven novels this year (still behind pace but getting there!). I’m going to start reading vol. 3 right away and hopefully finish before the end of the month.
Something I didn’t realize since I was reading the ebook is that this book was actually surprisingly long. When I logged it on bookmeter it came up as 312 pages, compared to the 153 pages that I was seeing on my ereader…so my average of ten pages per day was actually more like 20? Very curious.
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Already! I somehow thought it would take longer.
(And I have no idea how to quote the “Hype” to make it look the same as in the original post)
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It took a while! Roughly 6 months. But that’s indeed less than the 10 months it took for volume 10.
Hype is in math mode. You just need to put some part between $ for that mode.
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For the first time I just came across text that has been crossed out. Its so hard to see I honestly thought it was just something on my screen at first.
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Whoa, never seen this before, looks really funny! Also, from looking at the two words the meaning becomes clear immediately 
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Yeah usually its something that they would just do with furigana so I don’t really know why they picked this way. Maybe because it feels more menacing? lol
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