s0apgun Wrote:Can anyone recommend me some easy manga at around the Core2k level. I downloaded the first volume of Great Teacher Onizuka and was struggling to get through it. Haven't checked out anything else yet but figured I'd ask here first.

This thread may not be the best place for this and I'm not sure how Core2k level these manga are but they are what I read (or tried to read, at least) after completing Core2k:

http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=123
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=149
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1801
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=5593

could anyone please enlighten me as to how one might get these innocent reviews into a text file or pdf with the rubi displayed correctly so i might say read them on a kindle?
I googled it, and didnt have much joy. I know you can convert the aozora bunko files for kindle, but thats not really what I'm after ..

s0apgun Wrote:Can anyone recommend me some easy manga at around the Core2k level. I downloaded the first volume of Great Teacher Onizuka and was struggling to get through it. Haven't checked out anything else yet but figured I'd ask here first.

Give 謎の彼女Ｘ (なぞのかのじょＸ) a shot. I know it demands more terms than are in Core2K, but it's an easy read grammar-wise. Might be a good Core2K follow-up. Also, the first らんま1/2　book by 高橋留美子 is a decent read; just beware that the Chinese guide early in the story is speaking "broken" Japanese.

squarezebra Wrote:could anyone please enlighten me as to how one might get these innocent reviews into a text file or pdf with the rubi displayed correctly so i might say read them on a kindle?
I googled it, and didnt have much joy. I know you can convert the aozora bunko files for kindle, but thats not really what I'm after ..

Try this site.
Just paste the text into it and it will convert it to a pdf thats written vertically. I believe you can also choose font size.

That Sir Blackbrich is just what the doctor ordered. Thank you

Fadeway Wrote:EDIT: Downloading the folders as archives replaces all the kana/kanji in the filenames, even the latin letters, with low slashes ("_"). Hopefully installing the dropbox app and downloading through that will fix it.

FYI, I had a similar problem when extracting from the archive with WinZip and WinRAR, but when I used PowerArchiver to do it the file names came out properly.

I had a dream in which my whole imaginary collection of Japanese light novels (or ranobe) disappeared due to a very sudden and realistic hard drive crash. I remember feeling particularly depressed because of losing 「ＮＨＫにようこそ」、「きののたび」and「狼と香辛料」(but of course in my dream many more titles were gone and that made me feel really sad). As it was a pretty nasty nightmare, I wonder if some good soul would help me chase it away and, say, share some pictures of cute, little Japanese kittens to make me feel better?

chillimuffin Wrote:I had a dream in which my whole imaginary collection of Japanese light novels (or ranobe) disappeared due to a very sudden and realistic hard drive crash. I remember feeling particularly depressed because of losing 「ＮＨＫにようこそ」、「きののたび」and「狼と香辛料」(but of course in my dream many more titles were gone and that made me feel really sad). As it was a pretty nasty nightmare, I wonder if some good soul would help me chase it away and, say, share some pictures of cute, little Japanese kittens to make me feel better?

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18572554?top_flog

There you go.

Quote:http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18572554?top_flog

There you go.

Aww, thanks Taishi, that's very sweet of you...

But that's not exactly what I had in mind. I might not have been specific enough, my apologies. What I was thinking about was, more like, Japanese kittens reading books, perhaps even, you know, in tiny reading glasses... If you had something of that sort, that would be perfect.

chillimuffin Wrote:

Quote:http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18572554?top_flog

There you go.

Aww, thanks Taishi, that's very sweet of you...

But that's not exactly what I had in mind. I might not have been specific enough, my apologies. What I was thinking about was, more like, Japanese kittens reading books, perhaps even, you know, in tiny reading glasses... If you had something of that sort, that would be perfect.

You know, if you look for the Japanese "reviews" dropbox/depositfiles links on page 10, it might soothe you over your cute kitten withdrawal. XD

Bokusenou Wrote:You know, if you look for the Japanese "reviews" dropbox/depositfiles links on page 10, it might soothe you over your cute kitten withdrawal. XD

In fact, that's the first place I checked and all the marvellous reviews of great books did indeed make me feel much better But I haven't been able to find any ranobe reviews there and so I thought someone might be able to help me out.

Never mind me guys, I must have been really tired yesterday. I found most of what I was looking for exactly where Bokusenou said it would be. Sheesh, I hate it when I turn into this brainless noob sometimes. Sorry and thanks!

Forget about my yesterday's babbling, I'm ok now

Oh, and by the way I had another dream today. I dreamt that I found volumes 10-14 of "Kino no Tabi", which are not included in the original collection. I dreamt that they could be acquired here: http://bit.ly/8mvqux4 . Come to think of it, the url might have been more, sort of... tiny, though. I can never get it right

Bokusenou Wrote:I had a dream that there was a (non-aozora bunko formatted) text file of the first story in Kitchen (as in, not including Kitchen 2-Mangetsu, or Moonlight Shadow) but It was just a dream... I'll link to an awesome aquarium web cam to make you feel better:
http://sn.im/0kscxc777
Hmm, isn't sn.im weird looking? I wonder what would happen if one used the same alphanumeric code with some site like tinyurl.com...Don't you?

...a half-complete dream that is....

interesting though... i saw the other half of it at a book store.

Edit:
@Bokusenou
When i get round to it, someday, i'll proofread and complete "this kitchen dream". If i'm in the mood... i might throw in some "omake pages". Do you like kimchee, lizard or moonlight?

Splatted Wrote:Thanks IceCream! Are you planning on leaving them up, or is this just a temporary thing? Also, is that the Hongfire batch or the books Nestor collected?

IceCream drop is the same as hong batch. About nest0r collection, i thought they were similar, maybe someone in nest0r circle is able to shade some light and enlighten his readers?

Back then, "demon torrent" had a few batch based on different genres like SF, light novels, J literature, J fiction, etc.

404 file not found or something went wrong in my search to find something that couldn't possibly exist

[RawToast]

Tori-kun Wrote:Does anyone have a dedicated server with unlimited traffic? Reading online in Firefox or so is just sooo convenient

A long time back I know, but I am thinking of downloading from this non-existent thread and dumping the results on my VPS. I have a transfer limit of 2TB, but I can't see how 'nothing' will take up my bandwidth

EDIT: wrong topic, I'm reading too many of them at the same time.

By the way, I've found キノの旅 a little too difficult for my level. Oddly ノルウェイの森 is better. (I'm at 2000 sentences on Anki)

squarezebra Wrote:could anyone please enlighten me as to how one might get these innocent reviews into a text file or pdf with the rubi displayed correctly so i might say read them on a kindle?
I googled it, and didnt have much joy. I know you can convert the aozora bunko files for kindle, but thats not really what I'm after ..

Not exactly related to this question, but for those who intend to read the above reviews on their desktop computer, another option is to use Airzoshi (AIR草紙). It requires Adobe Air to be installed first. The viewer recognizes various file formats (Shift-JIS, pdf, ePub) and it can connect directly to the Aozora repository. Text can be displayed vertically or horizontally with a rather clean look, and Aozora ruby are handled properly.

On the downside, one loses the possibility of using Rikaichan (but Weblio dictionary search is possible via a popup window).

BTW, I came across this application through the site http://www.satokazzz.com/books/#
Does anyone know about it? It looks interesting, but the amount of Japanese text is intimidating for me. Could someone have a look at it and explain what it is all about. Just a nice interface to Aozora or more?

Thanks.

Did anyone happen to come across some really detailed reviews of Murakami books, other than Hard Boiled Wonderland? I would be most interested in reading in relation to A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル).

There's a lot of reviews to go through... What reviews would you recommend going through first? In a easy level I mean.

You might want to check out the thread where we review the books we read as a result of the reviews in this thread.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=9228

I know this is a long shot, but does anyone still have copies of that amazing collection that IceCream and Fadeway were sharing? I made the terrible mistake of grabbing a review of the first book in a series for later perusal, and now I'm dying to see what the later books are like, but Fadeway's DropBox link seems to be dead. If anyone has any leads I will be ever so appreciative; I haven't been able to find the same set anywhere else.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5pxmwkj6d7hlv...bFx6a?dl=0

I have a few more of the nestor books I haven't added yet because I forgot about it but I don't have them all. You should also check out http://ja-dark.tumblr.com/post/852243120...fective-in

Thank you!

The Tumblr page looks interesting, but I keep getting stuck in a dead end wherein I am encouraged to download suspicious-looking toolbars. Have you had any luck with it personally? I suppose it's not as if I don't have enough to be going on with in any case...

I wasn't able to read it in Japanese, but "In Praise of Shadows" (陰翳礼讃) was a great. It is a wonderful essay on Japanese aesthetics. I read it two weeks ago and I am suprised how much of it is also applicable to things here in Europe and that it is so very up-to-daten (it was published in the 1933).