Getting Waifu2x up and running was easy when I was on Kubuntu, but I’m currently on OpenSuse and nothing seems to be going my way to even get 1% toward building/installing from source.
However, I did find a fork of the project with a binary available to install. I can’t use any other models aside from the one bundled with it, but it’s somewhat decent. And converting images at about one second per image means a 220-page manga only takes about three and a half minutes.
Just to mention, if you were planning on it for manga, the dictionary can’t select the text to do look-ups that way. If you’re considering for actual novels, then that’s not an issue.
I don’t remember what comes built in, but there are free Japanese to English dictionaries available from Amazon itself or you can add a third party dictionary yourself (e.g. the same dictionary that jisho and most phone apps use).
As mentioned, you can usually make purchases without a VPN, but every once in a while Amazon complains.
Amazon complained twice a few weeks ago, only days apart. And yet this past week I bought like 30 things across four days without using a VPN and without any issue. It’s so weird.
I’m wondering how much of the blurriness when reading web manga is due to image smoothing, and whether slightly jagged furigana would be easier to read than blurry furigana, but browsers don’t seem to have a good way to disable this feature.
So I decided to try buying on ebookjapan, which seems to generally be agreed to have the best quality. However, much to my dismay, they require a Japanese phone number, which I do not have. They also require SMS verification, so I can’t even use a fake number. In any case, please allow me to あああ:
ああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああ
I know I could probably just buy in another store, but if I’m going with an online library I’ll ideally only use one for convenience’s sake, and other stores do feel less sharp to me, I think.
That’s just sad to the Japanese learners Community. Right now I’m getting mine from Amazon/Kindle Japan. I must admit thou that some publishers and old mangas have terrible quality compared to modern ones. Shounen Jump seems to be ok, on the other hand the old volumes from Hana to Yume are terrible. That’s why I’m putting Natsume Yuujinchou on hold right now I’ll come back when I reach my main mile stone on WK.
Also I guess that if it’s someone you trust it’s not a problem, but I think they might also be able to change your password and since I spend money there it’s kind of scary.
I’ll come back when I reach my main mile stone on WK.