Hello everyone, I am looking for suggestions for books, or reading materials to bridge the gap from graded readers to native materials. I have already read through everything on Satori, and recently finished all the books on JGRPG website from E through H. At this stage I can trudge through native …

Have you looked into Learn Natively? It’s a site where you can browse books by user difficulty gradings. If you’ve read everything on Satori, then it’s a good time to start reading native content. You could try children’s novels- some have full furigana, some partial. The downside of children’s nov…

Looks like Natively is the place to pin point exactly the level you need. I guess I was too focused on finding free online resources. Thank you for the suggestion.

What about joining a Book Club here in the forum? There are Clubs for every levels, they are organized by giving reading assignments with a few pages per week to read, vocabulary sheets all filled up, threads full of questions and answers, plenty of people ready to help, a lot of choice if you look …

Sounds like you’re going to have to jump into regular novels and manga. Keep in mind that sites like Bookwalker.jp often offer the first book of a series for free (sometimes even more). And sometimes they just have fully free novels that come up, or heavily discounted ones. (Which you can combine w…

at a certain point it might not be a bad idea to just start reading novels you may have already read in your native language but in the japanese translation if you can get a hold of a copy.

What a fantastic thread, thank you for pointing it out. I visit the forum time to time, and I know it is an active community, but I was not aware of these gems.

I checked bookwalker, and realized that it is not possible to remove DRM from books purchased through them. Is that what you usually do? Just use their apps for reading?

Yeah I read straight from the app.

Graded books: What comes after Satori, JGRPG Sakura

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Akashelia December 10, 2024, 7:05pm 10

Some of us buy on Bookwalker and then use Mokuro to read in a browser with selectable text.

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Graded books: What comes after Satori, JGRPG Sakura

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