(2016-01-08, 7:47 pm)Roketzu Wrote: If you have the Perfect Dark P2P client that a lot of Japanese people use you can do a search for NHK ラジオ第２ 朗読 and find a lot of .mp3s of past radio show audiobook recordings.

(2016-01-10, 9:01 pm)zx573 Wrote: Not exactly about FeBe, but I decided to give buying an ebook off the Japanese Kinokuniya website a shot, and it worked perfectly with my US VISA credit card. I didn't give my address or anything when I signed up, but I did select 東京都 for my location. It doesn't seem to matter, though. At any rate, I figured I'd post about it in case someone else wanted an ebook copy to go with whatever audiobooks they buy. I purchased it through the website, but it looks like you can also purchase books through the app after you login using your account for the Japanese Kinokuniya website.

I figure this way I can double check what I don't catch and it'll give me something to focus on while listening.

(2016-01-10, 11:58 pm)eslang Wrote:

(2016-01-08, 7:47 pm)Roketzu Wrote: If you have the Perfect Dark P2P client that a lot of Japanese people use you can do a search for NHK ラジオ第２ 朗読 and find a lot of .mp3s of past radio show audiobook recordings.

May I ask, how far back are the past radio show audiobook recordings that are available on Perfect Dark?  I'm looking for some of the past recordings from the beginning of 2012 onward.

(2016-01-11, 5:00 am)Roketzu Wrote: The earliest on there is from June 2013.

(2016-01-11, 3:38 am)Bokusenou Wrote:

(2016-01-10, 9:01 pm)zx573 Wrote: Not exactly about FeBe, but I decided to give buying an ebook off the Japanese Kinokuniya website a shot, and it worked perfectly with my US VISA credit card. I didn't give my address or anything when I signed up, but I did select 東京都 for my location. It doesn't seem to matter, though. At any rate, I figured I'd post about it in case someone else wanted an ebook copy to go with whatever audiobooks they buy. I purchased it through the website, but it looks like you can also purchase books through the app after you login using your account for the Japanese Kinokuniya website.

I figure this way I can double check what I don't catch and it'll give me something to focus on while listening.

Woah, really? Can you use the ebook without getting the Kinoppy app? Did you need to use a proxy to buy it?
The Kinoppy app isn't available on the US Play Store, so it would be great if I could buy ebooks from there & then convert them to mobi format to put on my Kindle..

(2016-01-11, 9:31 am)zx573 Wrote:

(2016-01-11, 3:38 am)Bokusenou Wrote:

(2016-01-10, 9:01 pm)zx573 Wrote: Not exactly about FeBe, but I decided to give buying an ebook off the Japanese Kinokuniya website a shot, and it worked perfectly with my US VISA credit card. I didn't give my address or anything when I signed up, but I did select 東京都 for my location. It doesn't seem to matter, though. At any rate, I figured I'd post about it in case someone else wanted an ebook copy to go with whatever audiobooks they buy. I purchased it through the website, but it looks like you can also purchase books through the app after you login using your account for the Japanese Kinokuniya website.

I figure this way I can double check what I don't catch and it'll give me something to focus on while listening.

Woah, really? Can you use the ebook without getting the Kinoppy app? Did you need to use a proxy to buy it?
The Kinoppy app isn't available on the US Play Store, so it would be great if I could buy ebooks from there & then convert them to mobi format to put on my Kindle..

You need the Kinoppy app to use it on cellphones, but if you get the APK from the internet (use at your own risk) then it might work. If you have an iOS device then it's simple to get Japanese apps from the iTunes store, but Google's Play Store is a pain.

I was curious about the format they use for the ebooks, it looks like it's an encrypted XML-based format called XMDF that was created by Sharp. I don't think you're going to have much luck converting them to another format without going through an indirect method. When I searched, I saw a bunch of blog posts about how people used automated screen captures to screenshot and save all of the pages in their books and then stitch them up into the format of their choice.


@TheVinster: Go to 文芸・落語 > 現代小説. Cuts out all of the self-improvement crap if you're looking for *just* audiobooks of novels.

(2016-01-11, 5:18 am)eslang Wrote:

(2016-01-11, 5:00 am)Roketzu Wrote: The earliest on there is from June 2013.

Thank you, I appreciate your response.  

Is the 40 GB hard drive space (cache unity) still a requirement?

Do you happen to know whether 英語で読む村上春樹 series are available as well?

(2016-01-11, 10:15 am)Roketzu Wrote: Nothing came up when I did a search unfortunately.  I believe the space requirement is still required to get the program working, and if you want to download a lot it will require even more space be dedicated to the cache. Mine is currently at 141 GB.