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Reply #1 - 2011 January 01, 7:03 am
stevesayskanpai Member
Registered: 2008-12-10 Posts: 169

Hi everyone, Happy New Year!

I recently bought Murakami Haruki's Wild Sheep Chase in paperback, but quickly realised that it will take me hours to read in this form. It would be a lot more straightforward if I could locate an online text. Does anyone know where I can find one?

Cheers,

SSK

Reply #2 - 2011 January 01, 7:35 am
jettyke Member
From: 九州 Registered: 2008-04-07 Posts: 1194

It's really hard to find murakami stuff, especially for free. I tried, and came back with nothing.

Last edited by jettyke (2011 January 01, 8:18 am)

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Reply #4 - 2011 January 01, 8:17 am
jettyke Member
From: 九州 Registered: 2008-04-07 Posts: 1194

Damn, I totally forgot The Russians....I should have remembered that there's a lot of good stuff on russian sites!

Thanks, Buonaparte!

edit: Do you mind telling me how can I download the "Kaze..." book? Do I have to sign up?

Last edited by jettyke (2011 January 01, 8:30 am)

Reply #5 - 2011 January 01, 8:28 am
buonaparte Member
Registered: 2010-11-25 Posts: 797

You must register.

Reply #6 - 2011 January 01, 8:35 am
jettyke Member
From: 九州 Registered: 2008-04-07 Posts: 1194

Thanks! As I see there are some other books in japanese as well!

http://greylib.align.ru/?category=japanese

Reply #7 - 2011 January 01, 1:17 pm
TheVinster Member
From: Illinois Registered: 2009-07-15 Posts: 985

Anyone have a registration guide to make an account on that Russian site? I... can't read it. tongue

Reply #8 - 2011 January 01, 1:18 pm
jettyke Member
From: 九州 Registered: 2008-04-07 Posts: 1194

I used google translate tongue

works well...

Reply #9 - 2011 January 02, 5:33 pm
Blahah Member
From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

I have Murakami's 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド) as an ebook in both English and Japanese. If you were to follow the clues, you'd probably find it yourself.

In general, if you want to find an ebook in Japanese, search the authors name in Japanese (which you can get from wikipedia) along with (一般小説) or (一般書籍).

Last edited by Blahah (2011 January 02, 5:41 pm)

Reply #10 - 2011 January 03, 1:26 am
buonaparte Member
Registered: 2010-11-25 Posts: 797

Blahah,
thanks a lot.
Do you have 風の歌を聴け in .txt format, too? Would you mind giving any clues?
I have a scanned and OCRed pdf of ダンス・ダンス・ダンス, vertical text.

Reply #11 - 2011 January 03, 8:34 am
Blahah Member
From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

Hey, no I don't have 風の歌を聴け in txt, but I'm positive I saw it during my travels around teh interwebs. Do you have email? Or some way we can talk off the forum. You can use the email link under my username, perhaps we can work together to find more stuff.

Reply #12 - 2013 January 13, 10:31 am
psychopatate Member
From: Syria Registered: 2012-09-04 Posts: 60

buonaparte wrote:

風の歌を聴け
http://greylib.align.ru/?category=japmo … _wind_sing
1Q84
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3298946

You made my day, sir.
(twice actually ! I just found the links for the Harry Potter audiobooks on another thread) !

Thanks, a lot ^_^

Q : I think the link to greylib.ru is no longer valid hmm it says file not found, do I have to register or something ? I already searched on rutracker.org, didn't find anything sad

Last edited by psychopatate (2013 January 14, 2:36 pm)

Reply #13 - 2013 January 13, 12:00 pm
Stian Member
From: England Registered: 2012-06-21 Posts: 426

Sorry for eavesdropping, but the "clues" yielded only the English version... sad

Reply #14 - 2013 January 13, 4:00 pm
meeatcookies Member
From: Poland Registered: 2011-11-12 Posts: 96

I should've learned russian before learning japanese. Google translate then...

Reply #15 - 2013 January 13, 6:23 pm
usis35 Member
From: Buenos Aires Registered: 2007-03-31 Posts: 205

Haruki Murakami:
On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning

http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?p … 98#p185098

Reply #16 - 2013 January 14, 10:37 am
psychopatate Member
From: Syria Registered: 2012-09-04 Posts: 60

Stian wrote:

Sorry for eavesdropping, but the "clues" yielded only the English version... sad

Nope, I just got them hmm English and Japanese !

Reply #17 - 2013 January 14, 12:19 pm
Stian Member
From: England Registered: 2012-06-21 Posts: 426

I find a PDF in plain English and a bunch of textdocuments with loads of symbols...

Reply #18 - 2013 January 14, 2:24 pm
edkrak Member
Registered: 2012-12-06 Posts: 17

Stian wrote:

I find a PDF in plain English and a bunch of textdocuments with loads of symbols...

Open them with a program more advanced than Notepad. Word or something...

Reply #19 - 2013 January 14, 2:37 pm
psychopatate Member
From: Syria Registered: 2012-09-04 Posts: 60

edkrak wrote:

Stian wrote:

I find a PDF in plain English and a bunch of textdocuments with loads of symbols...

Open them with a program more advanced than Notepad. Word or something...

Yep, I opened them with Microsoft Word smile

Reply #20 - 2013 February 14, 9:08 am
eslang Member
Registered: 2012-01-27 Posts: 98

Where do JP novel text come from? 
Most of the time, original source was from Winny, Share then maybe Perfect Dark.
Subsequently some Chinese/Korean/Russian download it and put them on their sites. 

Granted, some of them type or make their own text copy....　but,

How do you tell which is the first upload?
Check the upload dates against the other sites which also uploaded similar text.

How do you know if the JP texts are correct without errors?
That is, if you buy it and check against the actual physical book! big_smile

Actually, I prefer to lurk than post comment, (no kidding).

Any further questions? Just PM me. smile

Reply #21 - 2013 February 14, 4:59 pm
Crispy Member
From: UK Registered: 2012-05-08 Posts: 126

Most txt novels are extracted from the mobile version produced for mobile/cell phones so should be the same as the physical copy. Can't say I've checked though.

Reply #22 - 2013 February 14, 10:05 pm
eslang Member
Registered: 2012-01-27 Posts: 98

Surely, we're not referring to aozora bunko here. Even those need proofreaders who are really volunteers doing the work. 

Most of the ebooks from Kindle store are decent but some of them have errors too.

Reply #23 - 2013 February 15, 8:27 pm
Crispy Member
From: UK Registered: 2012-05-08 Posts: 126

eslang wrote:

Surely, we're not referring to aozora bunko here. Even those need proofreaders who are really volunteers doing the work. 

Most of the ebooks from Kindle store are decent but some of them have errors too.

Definitely not from Aozora, the txt books I'm referring to (many of them) are as new as 2013.

Reply #24 - 2013 February 15, 9:17 pm
chamcham Member
Registered: 2005-11-11 Posts: 1444

eslang wrote:

Where do JP novel text come from? 
Most of the time, original source was from Winny, Share then maybe Perfect Dark.
Subsequently some Chinese/Korean/Russian download it and put them on their sites. 

Granted, some of them type or make their own text copy....　but,

How do you tell which is the first upload?
Check the upload dates against the other sites which also uploaded similar text.

How do you know if the JP texts are correct without errors?
That is, if you buy it and check against the actual physical book! big_smile

Actually, I prefer to lurk than post comment, (no kidding).

Any further questions? Just PM me. smile

Do you work for FBI or some other government agency in your country? big_smile

Last edited by chamcham (2013 February 15, 9:18 pm)

Reply #25 - 2013 February 18, 4:23 am
eslang Member
Registered: 2012-01-27 Posts: 98

chamcham wrote:

Do you work for FBI or some other government agency in your country? big_smile

You're funny.  I like your sense of humor big_smile

Ah yes, I used to deal with "top secret" stuff.  :x