Thank you. I’ll check those out later.
I had the idea to get this dictionary from one of the thread in this forum, but I couldn’t remember which. Seeing the prices online plus the high delivery cost to Singapore, I decided to try my luck with BookOff if I ever had a chance to visit Japan again. In the end I brought back a small suitcase, containing JPY100-JPY110 books from BookOff, randomly chosen from some interesting topics.
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Must not spend all disposable income on books…
Must not spend all disposable income on books…
(3 hours later)
Ok but now my ホリミヤ collection is basically done, and I have enough books that I don’t need to buy any for several months… right? Right?
We’ll see how well that goes for me.
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If you’re on the Natively forums you’ve already seen this in the “physical media megathread” there as well as all my day to day updates along the way, but this is the final “everything I bought” photo from my recent trip to Japan, where I spent quite a lot of time in Book-Off and other bookshops from Tokyo to Sapporo:
53 books total; if I’d been counting up as I went along I would probably have picked up one last book to fill in the corner space 
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Picked these up at HPB today
I like big books and I cannot lie. (模倣犯 上巻 is 721 pages long while the 下巻 is 698.) (Noooo I still haven’t read my other 宮部みゆき novels aside from ステップファザー・ステップ.) (I definitely recommend that one though, it’s great. A criminal gets reverse-adopted by a pair of identical twin middle school boys after falling off their roof.)
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Those covers look amazing.
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Just got back from a trip to New York and splurged on some books!!!
I’m sad there weren’t more Pluto volumes, but I got two from Book-Off! I tempered my expectations for a Book-Off in the US vs in Japan, but I was still left disappointed
I thought there would be better stuff!!! But that’s okay, I can’t complain at all because I’m able to go to Japan soon this year
All the rest I got at Kinokuniya!! So all pretty pricey, but I really wanted them so it was worth it 
I got the book club book (just in time!!) お探し物は図書室まで. Excited to start it today! Also got all of (except for one that I’m gonna buy in Japan) Gen Hoshino’s books/essays!! Already started reading いのちの車窓から 
And lastly, Natsumensanchi’s artbook, Onlines! I’M SO HAPPY THEY HAD IT!! I was worried they didn’t have it and was looking for a good long while, and then gasped out loud when I saw it haha. All the artwork is so amazing, and I love the book itself! With the binding it has, you can lay all the pages flat!! So it’s really great for all the artwork that span both pages.
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Which club is reading that?
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The IBC just started it
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Well now I’m in another book club I guess.
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I just started 文庫版 魍魎の匣 | L40?? and discovered that the publisher included this cool book specific bookmark with a picture of a 魍魎 with a 匣:
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