Is that right? I vaguely looked into this before but not really. What a mess 
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Basically, the short version is that when Square and Enix merged, a bunch of manga writers and editors who worked for Enix left to form a new company, Mag Garden. After much negotiation, the writers were permitted to continue the same series they were working on, provided they were given new titles. As Amano-sensei was one of these writers, Aqua changed to Aria with the third volume, albeit also restarting the count from one.
For other examples, Jinki became Jinki: Extend, Shugogetten! became Mamotte Shugogetten!, and Mythical Detective Loki became Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok.
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I was wondering how this sort of craziness gets started - interesting. I’m glad it’s not purely to trick us into accidentally buying the wrong books…
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You should probably close the already open popover when you open a new one. 
Also, the popover could probably be made a little less wide.
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yeah improving those popovers is on the list, albeit a bit down in priority.
I do think that the popovers will always be a somewhat sad way to read reviews though, will eventually have a reviews tab / pages similar to goodreads inline reviews, just hopefully without the early 2000s UI.
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I’d recommend changing “Advanced Intermediate” to “Upper Intermediate”. I think that’s the more common term, and it avoids the overlap in terminology with “Advanced”.
Though you should probably make the “our grading system” page and the dropdowns elsewhere on the site match anyway. 
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Very good idea and very nice timing for me! Thank you.
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Nice catch, thank you I think I ran into an issue with the options being to long on mobile so I dropped the ‘Advanced’ in advanced intermediate and forgot to go back and change. I did want to give credit to N3 being a bit more advanced than N4, but I’ll think on it. Upper is good, but I may just drop it everywhere because of the mobile issue.
That’s great to hear, thank you! Welcome aboard.
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Oh, speaking of which: Those labels for the JLPT levels - anybody else got the impression that they are a bit off? I couldn’t find an official nomenclature for them, but I‘m more used to labels like these:
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Some people might want to call N2 „Advanced“ as well, which I have no strong opinion about, but labelling N4 as „Intermediate“ really feels off to me.
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Yes, I was thinking the same thing. N4 feels very “beginner” to me. Also, not that it means much per se, but we recommend the Beginner Book Club at around N4.
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Thanks for the feedback, I don’t have any particularly strong opinions on this. I think I originally put it that way just because it still takes a lot of work to get to N4 , but I’d prefer to use what people are used to. I’ve moved N4 to Beginner & N2 to Intermediate, so the levels are:
N5 → Beginner
N4 → Beginner
N3 → Intermediate
N2 → Intermediate
N1 → Advanced
Nice catch, thanks! I’ve fixed that all up.
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I see @sweetbeems added half my manga requests so far. 
I’m waiting for them all to be on the site so that I’m less likely to miss some. (Just planning to go through my Bookmeter in chronological order.) Once I add them all to the site, I’ll try to gives scores to most of them and do a whole bunch of difficulty comparisons.
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When on page 5/5 for manga, I get 1..1 buttons. 
By the way, I typically use a 20 point scale for rating anime and manga, so fitting that into a 5 point scale will be quite challenging. (To be clear, I’m not asking for you to change the scoring system. Just wanted to mention one of the reasons it can be hard to rate individual volumes of manga, in addition to the individual volume versus entire series thing.)
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Divide it by four and round off?
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I’m particularly torn on the 9/10 case (I go 1-10 at half point increments). I typically round down, but if I do that almost all the manga I rate will get 3/5 or 4/5, with only やがて君になる, 放浪息子, and ご注文はうさぎですか getting 5/5. So instead I’m considering rounding up instead. (Of course, as previously stated, that all gets even more complicated since I can’t just rate the whole series.)
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Will be done shortly! In addition to needing to add ~50 requests for Belerith, I’m also in the process of moving 
I also expect to be able to greatly automate the process in the coming week, so should be able to add book requests very quickly in the future.
well, that’s a large incentive to get this done
whoops! thank you haha
wow! You’re very precise! 10 rating levels is a little overwhelming to me.
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Nice! I was wondering if you were going to do that at some point.
It all began from such a simple thought: “this anime isn’t as good as that 9/10 anime, but it’s better than that 8/10 anime”
(Seriously though, for sites focused on aggregate ratings like this, ultra simple like a 5 point scale probably is best. I’ll deal.)
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Would’ve done it sooner but needed approval to get access to Amazon’s API, which I now have
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Sorry?
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