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If you want free books (legally) - then there is also
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I continued reading the ふらいんぐうぃっち manga, once again I read around 20 pages, and I read one text in the reading section of the second Genki book.
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Sum up! - Summer Reading Challenge 2021
Day 5 - June 5th
今日の読書: からかい上手の高木さん.
ページ: 14
Finished chapter 4 and ready for chapter 5 - last week chapter for ABBC. 14 pages may not seem much, but I’m becoming faster and I’m judging this on the base of 1) number of looked up words: if I compare the first pages and the last one, omg, the first ones are a rainbow of color and notes, while in this chapter I looked just for few words; 2) grammar making sense: at the beginning I had to stop more than a few times to identify grammar and look for it, while now I first guess the meaning and then, if really uncertain, look for it, discovering that the guess was more or less correct.
This is satisfying and tiring, but I hope it’ll pay off in the future (๑･̑◡･̑๑)
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I’ve always used amazon. Easy phone and pc app that you can use. Also you can use a kindle if you have that obv.
EDIT: Honorable mentions for ereaders goes do google docs :3
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I am confusion. Did you take photos of the whole book…? or is that amazon related maybe? 
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Well, I take screenshots of every frame. It should be ok, because I’m only doing it for personal use in my notes app. Like this:
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No I just copy pasted the whole book into google docs lmao
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ohhh, so copy paste is ok with books on amazon… I’m used to bookwalker where you can select text, but you can’t “pick it up” in any way, only with yomichan
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Again, had a lot of things to do, so didn’t read much today. Also, there were no NHK Easy News today. However, that doesn’t mean I did no reading at all:
- Took some more notes on はたらく細胞。Reached page 152.
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Maa, you can’t really copy it on amazon either, but I just use my hackermanskills (aka calibre) to make it doable.
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It can be solved with quick css fix. They disable text selection but you can remove this rule with a custom style/script whatever.
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ahh I used to use amazon jp but I think they were missing a series I liked so switched to ebooksjapan. I also use the american site a lot for my kindle so it was getting confusing haha. but the text selection and built-in dictionary were great!
I’ve been thinking of switching to book walker for a little while actually! Do you think the page navigation is pretty easy to use?
ohh that’s really useful 
ebooksjapan doesn’t allow text selection afaik so looking up kanji has been a pain.
It looks like book walker is having a sale right now where new users get 50% off a purchase so I might just buy the whole hyouka set in one go since that’s the only thing on my ebooksjapan shelf that I would want to carry over if referral links are a thing on the site feel free to send me one so you guys can get points when I join 
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Yeah, just long-press until the cursor changes and then you can select text :3 (edit: select it with yomichan, I mean) You can take notes in the pop-up box to keep track of unknown words for example, but I think the limit is 50 per book. As for book marks, I don’t think there are any limits, and you can write stuff to keep track of them too. (Note: doesn’t work on books you haven’t bought yet)
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You know you can che ck out a book preview? It’s the same reader ui as after you have bought the book, so you can get a good idea whether you like it or not.
Personally, I think Bookwalker’s app is pretty bad. Looking up vocab also takes a while as you can just highlight the characters, you need to long-press and get a stupid text selection ui which doesn’t allow you to copy text from it.
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June 5
・Honzuki 4: 72% → 75% Got a bit better at reading while taking bus, not as distracted this time.
・Subete ga F ni naru: 75% → 77% Took me 25 min to read part 1 and 2 of chapter 9. I think I ended up reading a bit faster because I had timer on.
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Agreed. I like the app from Booklive (sister company) better. While there’s a length limit, you can copy some text through the quick search option (basically it puts your selection into a google search and you can copy it for real from there). It’s still pretty bad obviously…
Skipped reading yesterday because I remembered it about the time I was going to bed. And this is about reading more overall, not hitting every day like clockwork. I’d much rather skip a day and happily read the next day than making reading a chore to check off a to do list. ^^
Today I read about half of part 4 in the Ask Graded Reader lvl 4 vol 1. The story was quite interesting to start and I found myself reading further than I had first meant to, despite the text being quite dense. Like not hard dense, but it definitely felt meaty to read.
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It’s pretty horrible. I hate the lag when you switch to the app. Text selection for me picks up the correct word with just the long press, however, so that’s not that bad. Very rarely do I have to manually select it.
June 3rd: Read chapter 29 of Yotsuba. Also read chapter 10 of Digimon V-Tamers
June 4th: Chapter 30 of Yotsuba
June 5th: Chapter 31 of Yotsuba
I do notice my reading and comprehension getting faster just from forcing myself to read more consistently. While still fatiguing, I feel my stamina getting better.
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