https://twitter.com/yenpress/status/733707705865605120
Gifting now ded
Guess we'll have to make do with fanfics.
Good, it was always shit.
The anime is 100 times better than the LN so no one gives a fuck.
>>141802826
Not like anyone was translating it anyway, all we have is fanfiction.
>>141802920
>>141802995
Kill yourselves.
>>141802873
Fanfic will stop after the 9th volume.
Guess we have to hope someone else decides continue the "fanfic".
>>141802873
>implying
Sky already said he will stop. At least we will get death march and goblin slayer too , no one was translating them.
>>141802995
This
>>141802826
YP a shit. Fuck, I hate their speed and localization.
If you really about LNs you'll have to learn Japanese. There's no way around it.
>>141802826
Gotta wait till 2021 till it reach vol. 9.
Why do I get the feeling that they are over-expanding? It's like Del-ray all over again or shit.
>>141803686
They have the backing of Hachette and Kadokawa so they're not going to go down as easily.
>>141803516
I hate their translations more than anything.
I'll learn fluent Japanese before these slow asses get to Vol 8
>>141803737
Same. Localizing honorifics and otaku lexicon/jokes/references, among other things, makes me cringe.
>>141803847
>>141803516
This "Yen Press is slow" meme is really funny considering they have all 3 SAO Progressive volumes out in less time than it would have taken for the fan translation to finish even volume 1. At anywhere from 2 to 5 releases per year per series while maintaining over a dozen series, they are actually moving at a pretty brisk pace, at least as fast as many Japanese authors wrote the series in the first place.
>>141803960
First, SAO is an exception since it's super popular and it's one of their main cashcow. Second, Progressive had slow/stalled fan project, but SAO's (superior) fan translation was fast and active as hell.
>>141802995
It could have been true if the visual isn't that eye-gouging.The succubus arc ended up being a nightmare thanks to that.
>>141804063
Tap is really slow at translating new Alicization volumes, in case you haven't noticed.
js06 and sky are really exceptions. See Tap taking his sweet time on SAO, BT taking their sweet time with SAO:P, Nanodesu taking their sweet time with Grimgar and Rokka and Korean Zombie and pretty much everything else they pick up, Canonrap taking his sweet time with Apocrypha, Seki taking his sweet time with Zaregoto, Woods Runner taking his sweet time with Twintail, etc etc etc.
The vast majority of fan translation is really fucking slow.
Time to download all "fanfics" available. And pray that one day I stop being a faggot and finally learn japanese.
>>141804185
>Expecting fan translators to slave away on translations at the speed of professionals without any monetary compense most of the time.
>>141804185
This guy
>>141804385
Well that's the point isn't it? People complain that YP are too slow and bitching about YP's speed is practically a meme while forgetting that unpaid volunteer fan translators are frequently even slower and more unreliable.
>>141804444
>>141804385
>>141804185
>>141804063
>>141803960
>>141803516
Yen Press aren't slow once they get going, but they do take a while in between announcing and the first release which makes it feel like it takes longer, and they also usually start from further behind than the fan translation was at.
>get job at yen press
>leech translations from fan translations
>???
>proffit
>>141804605
When unofficial translations are years ahead of them, they need to pick up the pace.
This is exactly like TV shows that air a year later in other countries. Staying behind is terrible business.
3-4 books a year is normal for release, we think it's slow because we already read far more than they offered, and by the time they catch the current volume, raw already stretched out too.
Also, the fantranslation isn't super bad, not good but far from unreadable. They just need editor like the one who did late volume 8.
![[HorribleSubs] Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! - 03 [720p].mkv_snapshot_21.34_[2016.01.28_02.39.37].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4GJJ0pb.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! - 03 [720p].mkv_snapshot_21.34_[2016.01.28_02.39.37].jpg")
I'm gonna buy the scales, nendos, manga and LNs.
>>141804854
Buy the original, don't support JewPress
>>141804444
I don't disagree with you there. But the thing with YP and most other publishing companies is that they often take on more than they can handle and disrupt the progress of existing fan translations. There have been plenty of LNs stuck in permanent limbo because the publishers go nowhere with the translations despite having the license.
>>141804666
Satan/YenPress , pls.
>>141804864
They're underhanded at times yeah, but I give them points when they pick up niche.
This and Overlord. My other niche LNs translators dropped out on and will never look back? All I got is YP to count on to pick up in the future. Sky was a blessing and stuck with his work, he's fantastic. 90% other groups that do LNs ditch it when they don't get the attention anymore. Also I can't read the originals.
>>141804897
Tokyopop was long ago, Yen Press has been pretty good at not putting things on hiatus. Haruhi is done, Spice and Wolf is done, and they even kept going with Bungaku Shoujo even though literally nobody seems to have read it.
>>141804958
>90% other groups that do LNs ditch it when they don't get the attention anymore
It's amazing how often this happens.
First mahouka and then this..
Just fuck my shit up
>>141804958
>tfw Yen Press is the only hope for Antimagic readers now
https://twitter.com/yenpress/status/733707086878658560
>you only get one more for today
>for today
The ride isn't over yet, prepare for further casualties. Whatever Kadokawa sent C&Ds for I presume would be prime suspects, so I guess DAL, Haganai, DYD, Nobuna, Chaika, Taimadou are all possibilities.
Given the death of fansubbing, do you guys think fan translations are eventually headed the same way? We've had so many DMCAs over the past year or two.
>>141802826
>Yen Press
I look forward to 3DPD covers.
>>141805058
Odds are abyssal tho, anime floppedgreat ost thothe one that got dcma was the French tl together with old licensed LN in BT so it was just a Kadokawa's wide sweep at that moment.
>>141805263
You guys are never going to let that go, are you?
>>141805263
You won't get 3dpd covers. They actually learnt from their mistake of trying to market LN's as teen romance fiction.
All is well as long as I get Goblin Slayer.
I'd wait to see how the first volume turns out before I even consider it. On the other hand, I'm getting more motivation to work on my kanji because I can hardly wait for the next one.
Can they please pick up Boogiepop? Seven Seas is dead and no one else seems to care.
>>141805263
Why so made over some shitty dust jackets?
Only the first one was bad since the first release was actually a printed 3DPD cover. And that got a re-print to fix that "issue". For one, I miss the dust jackets.
>>141805303
I surely can't be the unit one who kind of liked their minimalist Haruhi paperback covers, and appreciated that they also produced hardback versions with the original Japanese cover art for those who wanted it.
>>141805223
In a decade from now, those of us who haven't committed suicide will be stuck with nothing but memories of this time.
>>141805163
If they get Kino no Tabi, I will scream.
Probably won't happen.
>>141805395
>those of us who haven't committed suicide
the fuck?
>>141805399
No, I don't have it.
That's just the preview from GA Bunko's monthly PV book (ＧＡ文庫＆ＧＡノベル２０１６年５月の新刊 全作品立読み（合本版）).
I can upload that without DRM if you want it, it will at least include the color illustrations and some monochrome ones from the first few pages.
>>141805350
If you like goblin slayer, check this link .
I suggest you dont use google translate on the whole thing or it will ruin the images.
http://yaruok.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-155.html#entry4317
Overlord translation doesn't seem that bad though.
>>141805490
Well thanks aniway. Gonna wait for someone to post whole thing.
>>141804864
>Buy a book in a language you can't understand in
No fuck off i don't care about supporting shit since Jewpress probably paid the author off his shitty fee anyways.
I just want to spend money on something I'll be able to read an enjoy.
>>141803079
Give me one reason that makes the LN better than the anime besides it looking pretty shit visual because of muh Deen.
The comedy is pulled off much better in anime because of how good the VA's are.
>>141804864
Buy something I can't read, seems smart.
I don't give a shit as long as they sell the digital versions on the Kindle and Kobo stores instead of on Kadokawa's shitty BookWalker app.
I'm not very knowledgeable about the fantranslations, but what is stopping the fans from translating?
The sites on which they upload them receive DMCAs? Or because the works are getting official translations the translators drop them?
>>141805613
It's not incomplete.
KnK and Tokyo ravens by YP when? Especially the former since i couldn't even read past the first volume due to how much the translations suck.
>>141805641
I can only strongly suggest to get Kobo then.
Illustrations are a lot higher quality than from Kindle and it comes in a proper EPUB format and not that Kindle shit.
>>141805660
>Tokyo Ravens
>wanting to be 13 volumes i.e. at least 3 years and at most 6 years behind the fan translations
>>141805644
Every single time it's 2 things
1. They don't get attention/feel lazy to not do it since it will get a translation eventually
2. Muh buy the LN and support their work attitude that's likely a cover for the above
When will they license pic related or any of the author's works?
>>141805666
Not that anon but is there any danger of the Kobo store becoming defunct from being outcompeted by Kindle, having too little market share and losing money like how Sony's eBook business went down?
Was actually thinking of getting a Kindle Paperwhite recently after trying a demo unit in store because trying to read epubs on my phone is a pain, and would consider buying ebooks of LNs that I don't care enough about to pay full price to buy physicals of like Psycome and Danmachi.
>>141805666
>tfw I broke the screen on my glo
>>141805666
>Illustrations are a lot higher quality
How much higher are we talking and by what metric? Greater resolution?
>>141805705
>Tokyo ravens
>Volume 14 hasn't been translated in an entire year
Nah fuck them these guys take the piss and are slow as fuck when doing it. Would rather YP just take it since then i could just use them to reread the series since at this point I barely remember the current events.
>>141805648
The LN is incomplete too retard.
>>141805933
Well, you will be removing the DRM (you don't need to own a Kobo device at all to download the book, their PC reader is enough) anyway so even if they went defunct, you're left with normal EPUB files which can easily be converted. Why Kindle doesn't support EPUB in the first place is a mystery to me anyway (or do they now?).
If you know someone with a Kindle, you could simply try it out beforehand.
Also, just an example so you know what I meant earlier.
>>141806073
YP is limited to 1400px height or width for now.
Also, Kindle's e-books are limited to 3MB in file size, so even if they give you the same resolution, the artifacts will be glaring.
>>141806128
It will obviously be a bit small for fold spreads, though.
>>141806128
>image
So top is Kobo and bottom is Kindle?
>or do they now?
They don't, but I could use Calibre to convert them to AZW3 for reading on a Kindle.
Mostly what I wanted out of Kindle is knowing that a massive company like Amazon is behind it so there is some expectation of quality and after-sales customer service.
>limited to 3MB
What the hell, Amazon? What are Kobo ebook file sizes like?
So if the DRM is really easy to remove, I guess my best option is to get a Kindle for quality hardware and support, but buy and strip Kobo ebooks to archive as well as convert and put on the Kindle?
>>141806280
Why don't they rotate the spreads like sensible people?
>>141806128
I think there's a licensing issue with amazon supporting epub.
Either way it doesn't matter. If you aren't using Calibre to manage your ebooks you're doing it horribly wrong. It automatically converts novels perfectlyif you have heuristics enabledto whatever format your device supports, has an alright reader with bookmarks, will allow you to update the metadata on the fly for books and transfers them to your device and my favorite feature is that if you have a kindle it'll convert and email all the books to it and the kindle will autodownload them while in standby so you never have to plug it into your computer.
Its literally the iTunes of ebook management but it works for every single ereader out there.
It also strips the DRM of epubs and converts it to whatever format you want.
Not to mention it works flawlessly with kindle comic converter for manga.
>>141806349
>heuristics
I understand for converting from PDF, but I'm pretty sure that you don't need it to go between epub, azw3, and mobi.
>>141806128
>3MB limit
Stop lying.
>>141806462
It's a 3MB limit for publishers. You can sideload files of whatever size you like, but legitimate AZW3 files purchased from the Kindle store will never be more than 2.X MB.
>>141806402
I have it set to automatically apply heuristics whenever I convert something to azw3/mobi as I've gotten some pretty janky result from it even when going from epub to azw3.
>>141806321
Yeah, top is Kobo.
I'm personally going to get my future purchases from Kobo (I've everything printed so far and it's getting a bit too much on the wallet and my shelf space) and will be stripping the DRM. I don't own a Kobo nor a Kindle but a Story HD, just in case you were wondering.
I don't think there's a limit. I downloaded a bunch of samples from them simply to see the quality and they range from a bit over 2 MB (Kagerou Date v1) and to nearly 10 MB (NGNL v3). These are obviously missing images, so the final file size will be bigger.
>>141806462
Is there even a single official release in your list?
>>141806627
>>141806523
>>141806462
>>141806128
http://www.creativindie.com/make-more-money-on-kindle-by-reducing-your-mobi-file-size/
TL;dr Amazon will charge publishers a fee for each time their book is downloaded, and this fee is charged per megabyte. I guess 3MB is the highest YP decided they could go before this became uneconomical.
>>141806523
That limit is in place as LNsread: books with picturestake up a small majority of the kindle market place. Plus for the most part kindle LN releases don't even come close to being 3 MBs so you shouldn't get any artifacts from the files being strained for space.
>>141806627
There are some in the folders above. I mainly buy text based books on my kindle with the exception of "Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon" as I was on vacation and couldnt access madokami for some reason.
Plus it's not like amazon had LNs up for sale on the kindle marketplace until very recently.
>>141806702
Yeah, just some addition to that article.
MOBI usually contains HQ images, and once you remove the DRM, they can also be properly extracted.
Since the majority doesn't do it, the internet ends up with the extremely small and shitty ones.
>>141802826
I want more the animoo though, megumin and lich voices are full sex.
>>141806788
>That limit is in place as LNs read: books with pictures take up a small majority of the kindle market place.
You mean a small minority, right?
>Plus for the most part kindle LN releases don't even come close to being 3 MBs so you shouldn't get any artifacts from the files being strained for space.
What? The releases are well under 3MB precisely because they compressed the images to fiendishly artifacted levels so as to make them that small.
Danmachi epubs from Kobo are all over 7.5MB, with volume 4 clocking in at 8.6.
>don't even come close to being 3 MBs so you shouldn't get any artifacts
What?
>>141806937
Yeah I meant minority.
>>141806945
Digital artifacts are made when you're starved for space yet still attempt to force the content into that file size. You let the compression algorithm handle figuring out where shit's supposed to go and that only goes so far before you start losing data which leads to artifacts.
>>141806937
There's a difference between well compressed files as opposed to uncompressed bloat.
Plus as the kindle is a greyscale reader filesizes are naturally smaller.
>>141807034
>Digital artifacts are made when you're starved for space yet still attempt to force the content into that file size. You let the compression algorithm handle figuring out where shit's supposed to go and that only goes so far before you start losing data which leads to artifacts.
And you're starved for space because you want to get the file under 3MB to minimize Amazon's per-megabyte delivery charge. It's less of a hard limit they have to get under and more of a soft economical one, so the fact that it doesn't approach 3MB doesn't mean anything other than that when balancing file size against visible image quality they were able to go down closer to 2 than 3MB.
>Plus as the kindle is a greyscale reader filesizes are naturally smaller.
If you were to rip the DRM and read the files on a color screen you'd be able to see that the images do have color.
>>141807034
>Limit of 3 MB total to compress 15~20 images.
>Well compressed.
Yeah, in your dreams maybe.
Are you people really complaining about the quality if images on a damn light NOVEL?
>>141807253
Lewd illustrations are half the appeal of shit like Danmachi and NGNL, and you bet that Overlord's illustrations do not deserve to be visibly artifacted without zoom.
>>141807253
>paying for something
>not wanting it to have a good quality
>>141807253
Yes.
If I can get it like this for the same price and a better format, why would I even bother with Kindle?
>>141806702
>>141806627
>>141806462
It's not a hard limit, it's an economical one.
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A29FL26OKE7R7B
>Delivery Costs are equal to the number of megabytes we determine your Digital Book file contains, multiplied by the Delivery Cost rate listed below.
>Amazon.com: US $0.15/MB
India on Amazon.com: INR ₹7/MB
>Amazon CA: CAD $0.15/MB
>Brazil: BRL R$0.30/MB
>Amazon.co.uk: UK £0.10/MB
>Amazon.de: €0,12/MB
>Amazon.fr: €0,12/MB
>Amazon.es: €0,12/MB
>Amazon.it: €0,12/MB
>Amazon.nl: €0,12/MB
>Amazon.co.jp: ¥1/MB
>Amazon.com.mx: MXN $1/MB
>Amazon.com.au: AUD $0.15/MB
>We will round file sizes up to the nearest kilobyte. The minimum Delivery Cost for a Digital Book will be US$0.01 for sales in US Dollars, INR₹1 for sales in Indian Rupees, CAD$0.01 for sales in CAD Dollars, £0.01 for sales in GB Pounds, ¥1 in JPY, R$0.01 for sales in Brazilian Reais, MXN$1 for sales in Mexican Pesos, AUD$0.01 for sales in Australian Dollars, and €0.01 for sales in Euros, regardless of file size.
>For sales in JPY, we will not deduct any Delivery Cost for books 10 MB or greater.
Basically, all the Kindle LNs are 2.(something) MB because probably the profitability versus image quality sweet spot is somewhere around there.
>NOTHING by Kawakami will EVER be localized
>>141804131
>he didn't like DEEN's art direction
>>141807187
>>141807272
>>141807185
I stand corrected. The colors are miles better on my madokami rip compared to the kindle copy.
I will argue though that it doesn't really matter at the end of the day as you're still reading it on a greyscale reader but you are right about the quality loss from their compression.
>click all images with street signs and click verify once there are none left
These captchas are getting asinine.
>>141807792
I don't really mind.
We have a dedicated translator and quite the dedicated fan base which provides its own scans, image edits, and e-books which don't fall short to the actual purchased ones if you ask me.
>>141807849
Here's the image extracted directly from a Kobo epub by the way.
>>141807849
enable the legacy captcha, anon
>>141807849
That one on the right was obviously somehow tampered with. It looks like total garbage.
>>141802873
>>141803079
>>141803149
>reading fanfictions
>>>/tumblr/ is that way
>>141807956
Oh wait, that's the edited one from the fan translation. Call me stupid.
>>141807849
Your madokami copy is overfiltered garbage, and your Kindle KF8 is overcompressed garbage.
>>141807939
Just for easier comparing, the same picture from the rip mentioned in the post above.
>>141803204
Sky isn't even the credited translator for the current volume or at least the later chapters right?
>>141807989
You're an idiot.They're called "fanfics" to prevent kadokawa from DMCAing iirc
>>141808062
>>141807939
Does Yasuda dislike background or something?
>>141808062
By rip, you mean Madokami rip? Meaning the [Yen Press] epub? Is that a converted Kindle file?
>29.0KiB 501x751
>enough artifacts to fill the Smithsonian
What the fuck? This isn't caused by the conversion process, is it? This is actually what you pay Amazon money for?
>>141802826
They should license Alderamin.
>>141808296
Yes.
I've no clue how it was ripped, the anon uploading it there might be lurking here.
But for now, we have to assume that this is what they give you for your money.
>>141808393
>I've no clue how it was ripped
Amazon lets you download an encrypted file to transfer to your reader by USB, this file can be imported into calibre to be decrypted using your device's serial number and converted. That's how it's usually done I think.
>>141808296
>>141808393
Correction, since I remembered something.
If it was converted by Calibre, then the resolution and the even more compressing is indeed the work of the conversion from AZW3 to EPUB.
Because that's what Calibre will do by default.
People should really use this instead.
https://github.com/kevinhendricks/KindleUnpack
This will extract a bunch of things and the file you want is called kindlegensrc.zip which simply needs to be renamed to .epub.
If that doesn't exist, then simply zip the content of the mobi8 folder and rename it to .epub.
This will at least results in a AZW > EPUB conversion without image quality loss.
>>141808638
Yeah, so the conversion is party at fault as I wrote above.
>>141802826
wasnt yen press recently taken over?
>>141808686
I think you can avoid image quality loss in Calibre conversion if you set the target device for conversion to Tablet instead of to Generic e-ink which is the default.
Granted, the image quality wasn't great in the first place as can be seen when using the Android Kindle app to read books and zooming in on images.
>>141808686
I know that Amazon also compresses a publisher's EPUB files into AZW3, so might Amazon be the problem in the first place?
>>141808809
Kadokawa bought over half its shares, yes.
Now Yen Press has TWO publishing giants behind it, and one has incentive to shove as many Light Novels as possible into the western market.
>>141808809
It used to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Hachette, now it's jointly owned by Kadokawa and Hachette.
>>141808863
Does the fact that Hachette was willing to give up 51% shares and thus lose control suggest that the business isn't doing well enough for them to care for retaining voting power, or does Kadokawa really bring such massive benefits worth surrendering control for?
>>141808863
>I know that Amazon also compresses a publisher's EPUB files into AZW3, so might Amazon be the problem in the first place?
Well yeah, the kindlegensrc.zip which I mentioned is basically what they use to create their AZW3 files. And the src file is nothing else but the publisher's EPUB file.
You can see this especially well in MOBI files.
Just taking some random Japanese MOBI e-book I have on my computer as an example.
The MOBI is ~15 MB.
The kindlegensrc.zip is ~6MB just like the mobi8 folder.
And the mobi7 folder, which will be the resulting AZW3 file, is 3MB.
And there we go, 6+6+3=15.
So tl;dr madokami uploader anon should stop buying Amazon AZW3s and buy Kobo EPUBs instead?
It would cost kind of a shitload to re-purchase all the YP LNs that are already up on there, though.
Any ETA at all for vol 10 of overlord?
>>141809230
really? It's on fucking Amazon. And you probabaly have been asking that question in the threads too. It will be done when it's done.
>>141809163
Depends if you're using a color screen or not and what was uploaded to madokami is not the amazon file.
The AZW3 file works well for the kindle which doesn't have expandable storage since its small and the artifacts are obscured by the kindle's own resolutionwhich is not badand the fact that the kindle displays images in greyscale.
It's really a matter of preference.
>>141809038
I forgot to mention that mobi8 will contain an EPUB which is basically 3 MB as well.
So it's like 6+3+3+3.
The kindlegensrc.zip will contain the HQ images.
With proper names, e.g. p253.jpg VS image00295.jpeg.
Now, that's really all I know about this.
>>141809163
He doesn't have to. I think I talked with him a few days ago in one of the threads, it would be too expensive.
I'll also upload all my future digital purchases over there.
>>141809230
Volume 1 releases May 24th, Volume 2 releases September 20th.
Given the 1 volume every 4 months schedule, we can expect volume 10 in just over three years' time.
>>141809038
>>141809303
So how does one get a full MOBI from Amazon to extract both the epub and the azw3 from, instead of just the azw3 that Amazon gives you to use on a reader?
Alright its that time again
Name that one light novel that would actually benefit from Yen Press a.k.a that light novel nobody wanted to pick up to translate
Go wild and get sad
Mine is pic relatedTheres still an epilogue or something left in the fanfic right
>>141809406
Sorry, no idea. I don't own a Kindle.
This, I guess?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211
Why does it take yen-press so long to translate things?
>>141809326
We'll still get a fanfic for Vol 10 though
Nigel confirmed this
We should be getting it in a few months time depending on the chink trans and how fast Nigel is
>>141809469
well, they release what, a LN every three months? It doesn't take them that long obviously, so I'm just going to assume that it's because they want to milk whatever the last one they put out was.
>>141809455
So basically you can only get it if you're a publisher?
Where did your random Japanese mobi come from!
>>141803204
D-death march?
>>141809547
Yeah, that's getting localized by YP too.
>>141809547
YP announced Death March in addition to Konosuba.
Are there any significant differences between the WN and LN?
>>141809547
Don't worry, we're getting the LN version not the WN version that has 12 Chapters(Volumes) translated
>>141809540
The usual raw hosting websites.
http://www.manga-zone.org/archives/118669.html
For example.
>>141809532
That's what I don't understand though, if you buy volume 1 it's not going to stop you from buying volume 2. They aren't alternatives. I'd buy all volumes if they were released at once.
Or do you mean different series? That's still retarded given who's typically buying all this stuff.
Why do you guys even like the fanfic
It adheres to canon so much you could call it rewrite
>>141809547
Yeah, fortunately any translation speed is faster than none.
>>141809615
well, I dunno man, they're doing more than one series at the same time. So maybe that's just there limit right now.
>>141809637
What are you talking about?
>>141809608
Maybe Japanese purchases can afford to pack all that shit together for delivery to the consumer because JPY purchases above 10MB are exempt from delivery costs according to >>141807709
So all unpacking with Kindle Unpack will do for anyone who isn't Japanese will provide compressed garbage AZW3/KF8.
>>141809673
It deviates from canon so little that you could use it for fact checking
>>141805511
How do you even read that?
>>141809748
No, what fanfic are you talking about.
>>141809699
>JPY purchases above 10MB are exempt from delivery costs according to >>141807709
Why is Amazon so generous with its bandwidth to Japan?
>>141809699
You can try. I'm not exactly sure if it's always this case.
For example, I have an AZW3 file from the Japanese NGNL8, and it's ~30 MB.
Your point with the limitation still stands obviously, but it didn't contain any src.zip and had high quality images, though.
Well, at least unpacking with it will results in less compression than the automated conversion with Calibre as I mentioned.
>>141809615
>if you buy volume 1 it's not going to stop you from buying volume 2.
It will if the first volume was bad and the premise is fucking awful.
Also you retard no book company just releases several volumes in go as most people would not just spend that much on a series they don't know about or just heard of.
>>141809615
I stopped for SAO.
I bought the first volume only. But well, I decided on that from the very beginning.
>Yes Press
It took Yen Press 9 years to translate Spice & Wolf.
How long will it take them to translate Konosuba?
>>141809949
>>141809699
>>141809406
>>141809038
>KF8 (also called AZW3) is basically a compiled ePub that has been compiled using a Palm database and Amazon's DRM scheme. It is targeting ePub 3 version support but existing ePub can also be used. The latest KindleGen software will create KF8. KF8 replaces MOBI but actually includes both a MOBI database and a KF8 database in the same file for backwards compatibility using older Amazon Kindle readers.
AZW3 is just an updated MOBI, so it's all the same shit. The real difference is that Japanese ones are not compressed to death while non-Japanese ones are, because of delivery costs. If you're not in Japan, there is no magic full quality MOBI to extract from, the AZW3 Amazon provides is all there is.
>>141810097
They're faster now.
Their release schedule is 3-4 months per volume.
Stopping picking up bottom of the barrel garbage LN's and do some manga pick ups faggots.
>>141810097
20. If you are lucky. Is it true that they STILL haven't published Mahouka's first volume? Sure, I hate that series but still, doing that kind of shit is unforgivable
>>141809453
Well, YP already picked up Goblin Slayer, a completely obscure light novel that only came out a few months ago.
But I don't think they do this too often. With Kadokawa behind them, they might be pushed to pick up more obscure works, but dunno about that.
>>141809574
The Light Novel had the first two volumes translated. There are a lot of differences, though the story is headed in the same direction. Ultimately, the LN is more polished.
I've been wondering. Just like we have our own translators sites like Baka tsuki where we can get novels for free, do the Japanese have their own?
Where do they go to get free novels?
I wonder why when YP license something /a/ always raging?
There's nothing happened when Seven Seas license Shield Hero.
>>141810238
Well one, /a/ has major hate for YP. And two, Shield Hero is cool.
We need to accelerate research into genome editing and cloning so that we can clone a js06 for every LN series with their genes tweaked to a preference for a particular series.
If however we find that the gene that grants him his godly skills is the same or closely interlinked with the gene that makes him like Kamachi.exe stuff then we are screwed.
Alternatively, I question whether js06.exe is even human, we need to get at his source code.
>>141810238
Because Shield Hero's fan translation was just MTL of the WN, so a license would produce two-pronged benefits of a better translation as well as the story improvements and divergence of the LN.
>>141810238
Because nobody with a brain likes to have shit they were reading die?
>>141810238
>There's nothing happened when Seven Seas license Shield Hero.
I'm pretty sure that's because no one was really translating the Light Novel for Shield Hero, and the web novel translations were nearly done anyways.
I don't know the full situation with Shield Hero, actually.
Anyways, it's mostly just a hate boner they have for YP, because of the incident with Danmachi, and some other C&Ds they did.
>>141809574
>Are there any significant differences between the WN and LN?
Just know a WN is just some draft tier crap put up online for free with no editor to go over it at all.
A LN is just a cleaner version of that with an editor and published obviously.
I hope pic related doesn't end same way as the WN or i'll be pissed.
>>141810238
Because the pick up things that have 10+ volumes knowing full well that it'll take them YEARS to catch up if they can even manage thattheres no way in hell they're EVER going to catch up to the latest toaru noveland DMCA the fantranslated novels instead of letting them coexist with each other.
The only people who use Baka-tsuki/madokami tend to be from either here or reddit while Yen-Press tries to appeal to all demographics as seen as their stunt with Spice and Wolf. They also tend to only license whatever is the hottest shit currently in japan or here for that matter.
Plus as someone who reads fantranslation I'd prefer to get "quality" translations as well as get the physical copies of books that I really like.
Luckily I'm learning moon and have a Kinokuniya nearby so I can keep up to date.
>>141810238
Because translators often drop shit when an official license is anounced and Yen Press is so fucking slow that it'll basically be years until we get content that isn't already translated.
And nobody is buying the shit that they've already read that's fan translated, so they might just say fuck it and drop it.
>2 years later
>still no Mahouka LN despite Yen Press having the rights to translate it
>People are actually complaining about not being able to read garbage like Danmachi or Mahouka
>>141810513
Enlighten us with your patrician taste then, faggot
>>141810430
>and DMCA the fantranslated novels instead of letting them coexist with each other.
SAO (Tap and defan), Spice and Wolf (Drunken Wolf Translations), Maou-sama (some livejournal) and Haruhi (ultimatemegax) all disagree.
Literally only Baka-Tsuki and Danmachi have had grief from YP.
>>141810513
Mahouka is readable, starting from volume 8.
>>141810262
>>141810333
>>141810351
I see, thanks
>>141810335
To make it simple, people just want a free read, did I got that right?
>>141810394
Nah, WN straightmet to Fitoria and she can speak while in WN she can't because her former master forbid her to interfere with humans. In LN Naofumi met Nice Guy, then Raphtalia stab that fatty followed by dropping him from third floor.
LN make tons of foreshadowing if you already read WN.
>>141810512
Volume 1 came out April, and the Honor Student manga has been coming out since last year.
>>141810558
I'm pretty sure its because they host their servers in a country that ignores DMCA unlike baka-tsuki.
Honestly after that incident in the winter and with kadokawa now owning Yen-Press they really ought to change hosts before it's too late.inb4 they just say fuck it and shut down for good.
>>141810237
That's what WNs are for.
>>141802826
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
>>141810559
Yeah no. Doesn't mean you deserve the crap jewpress is doing, but Mahouka is full of shit from beginning to end
>>141810513
>Danmachi
>>141810601
>To make it simple, people just want a free read, did I got that right?
So you like to wait years till they reach the point where fantranslation stopped?
>>141810643
The best you can hope for is for Trump to become president and veto the TPP. Or for Sanders to miraculously become president and veto the TPP.
Better start learning nip then. How long does it take till one manages to read a simple LN?
>>141810758
2 years min
>>141810513
You won't stop me from liking things.
>>141810671
>>141807989
You're are pretty stupid anon
>>141810758
LN are actually pretty hard. It's much easier to read manga.
>>141810512
>2 years
Anon, they announced their Mahouka license last year. Volume 1 is already out as of April, and Vol 2 is in August.
>>141810601
>To make it simple, people just want a free read, did I got that right?
That's not the issue; I wouldn't mind paying for books I read (I already bought some of YP's stuff). People just don't want to have to wait several years to pick up a story from where they left off.
>>141810643
Tap has openly stated that if Yen Press actually sent him anything like a C&D or similar, he would stop translating. His website's server is also in California, so that throws your theory out.
>>141809608
Sauce? Cant find any source. Search gives only "anime" .
I haven't bought anything from YP. Are their releases any good? Is the paper quality good? People seem to have different opinions on the translation quality.
>>141810953
There's a download link for it in the very same post.
>>141806109
He probably meant that there're some juicy scenes that're missing, like the party swap, thanks to DEEN's 10 ep scheme.
>>141807826
>Implying DEEN is serious regarding art direction
They were lazy and didn't even try, you fucking know it.
Make the visuals half as good as Rakugo and it will certainly be AOTY instead of this cheap shit.
>>141809757
Use rikai chan or only translate the small bits with GT plugin. It is basically a very short story with images to read with (images done using kanji , hiragana, letters etc etc etc).
>>141810959
Cristianism translated into Crossism
>>141810959
Paper quality is largely the same cheap shit that is used for YA mass market paperbacks, but the color illustrations pages do use decent glossy paper. I haven't ever bought one of their hardback releases so I can't speak for those. My paperback volume 1 of Haruhi that I bought on release is pretty yellow now, though I live in a warm and humid country so that probably contributed.
>>141811002
Ah ok , sorry.
>>141810551
Read 12 kingdoms.
>>141810559
No the guy should honestly just write actual manuals instead since that's how his novels are written besides the constant miyuki praising.
>>141810671
>>141810786
It's as bad as sao and yet this gets the slide here for some reason.
Will they ever pick hentai novels?
https://yondemill.jp/labels/33
>Yen Press known for being jews that shut down any fan translation project.
>SAOis a Yen Press cash cow
>PDFs for the LNs are openly available
>Fan Translations still actively ongoing in the open, and haven't moved ever since the license was announced.
>That one spinoff no translator picked up was translated by YP, and they caught up in a yearFeels nice being an SAOfag
>>141811044
Thanks.
Grimgar and Rokka when? I'm sick of these slow as fuck translations
>>141811457
Your own fault for reading something translated by ND. That's just like following a manga translated by EG.
>>141811510
>they picked a novel i like
>hiatus for more than a year
It hurts , anon.
>>141811510
To think that Re;Zero's LN was almost consigned to nanodesu speed of slow.
>>141809854
At a wild ass guess, maybe it's a concession specifically because of Japan's light novel market, to not drive publishers away?
>>141802826
stop shilling this shit
we had this same thread yesterday
YP is bullcrap and it will take them 6+ years to catch up the japanese release, at that point Konosuba will no longer be relevant anymore
>>141806128
Just as a caution, Kobo randomly updates their desktop app with a new encryption method every now and again, breaking the dedrm for a while
>>141812613
Isn't it the same for Kindle, though?
what's worth reading that YP hasn't killed?
>>141812656
The app changes, but I'm pretty sure the e-readers stay the same.
>>141812737
Everything by Kawakami, also some stuff by Kamachi
>>141812752
Oh well, as long as they actually manage to break it again and it doesn't end up like BW, I don't mind waiting.
>>141812786
>Kawakami
Don't jinx it dude
>>141805554
>>141805635
Neo-/a/ is cancer, and dumb.
>>141812786
Index isn't completely dead. Only the completed first series was killed but the "sequel" is still being actively translated by JS06 and you can find the translations for both on madokami.
Heavy Object and Zashiki Warashi are also both top tier novels.
Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance is a decent enough read as well.
>>141813198
Kamachi isn't for everyone, some people find his flagrant abuse of repetition of convoluted phrases and overuse of exclamation marks to be annoying.
>>141813198
HO isn't top tier though.
Shit is consistently repetitive with each volume and the dull comedy scenes with the brotags aren't funny most of the time. You get to like volume 8 and just get tired with it.
>tfw 90% of web translated lns/wns are powertrip wish-fufillment bullshit anyway
why do people even waste time on this shit?
>>141813705
They have shit taste.
If you are gonna read something read manga.
>inb4 some fag thinks every manga is Jump garbage when it's like 40%
>>141813972
every manga is Jump garbage, only about 4% are decent.
>>141814047
You wish it was you delusional fag
>>141813705
So your saying there is 10% that isn't.
>>141813705
At least MC get's laid in this one.
>>141813705
When did the trend of scooping up web novels for official publication begin and gain traction? What novels before SAO began life as WNs?
>>141813198
>Heavy Object and Zashiki Warashi are also both top tier novels.
>heavy object
>top tier novel
fuck off saofag
>>141814475
I'm pretty sure SAO is known as the first? At least when it comes to Web Novel -> Light Novel specifically.
So, ya know. SAO ruined everything, ect ect..
>>141814587
There are still popular light novels that aren't influenced by SAO.
>>141814487
>liking heavy object must make you an SAO fan
Kill yourself the two are nothing alike. Havia and the other bros/chicks their own screentime unlike SAO and the novels are funny as fuck
>>141813687
I think it just might not have been to your taste, the later volumes are fucking great if you sit back and enjoy the crazy shit.
>Death March
Why can't Kadokawa make Yen Press bring over something decent instead of isekai trash from narou?
>>141813574
Most of them didn't bother me except for the prison psychosis stuff in Vol 8 of Zashiki but that was a detective chapter so I managed to get by it. One thing Kamachi does right is that you can tell he has fun with what he writes most of the time.
>>141815063
people likes to eat shit
>>141815063
decent such as....?
>>141807709
Amazon's bandwidth for delivering ebooks can't seriously be anywhere near $0.15/megabyte.
You mean to tell people there are people RIGHT now wasting precious time and money on something like fucking drawings made by some gook in the other side of the world?
Like do you have any other hobbies dude? regardless of what happens something will be done about it in the future with your support or not
Just watch anime casually with me
>>141807709
How does this work exactly?
Considering the upload from NGNL1 (1MB) for example.
But when you open the books on the website and switch to the Kindle tab, you can see the file size at the bottom.
>File Size: 18278 KB
>>141807989
Literally retarded.
>>141815872
>what is decompression
Come on anon.
>>141815568
Antimagic Academy.
>>141816056
Biggest joke yet in this thread.
>>141815568
Jintai
>>141815872
Well, the actual .AZW3 file Amazon gives me to transfer to my Kindle is 2.6MB, and so is the download on the Kindle app on my tablet.
>>141815380
And you can tell he isn't a good writer when he shits out new volumes at such a fast rate he has a new volume of something every month instead of quality checking his writing.
>>141816288
>>141815872
Same for if I use the Kindle for PC desktop program, by the way.
>>141815934
>>141816288
Taking decompression into account, the difference is still too huge.
Why would they say it's 18MB and than give you something which isn't even 3?
Oh well. Or I'm something totally misunderstanding here.
>>141816415
Not really. Text documents are easy to compress as its a lot of the same repeating information.
Guys, which kind of reader is best suited for reading pirated LNs and books?
>>141816515
kindle
>>141816490
But the majority of the filesize comes from images, not text. 18MB of pure text is definitely not the size of a light novel.
>>141815872
For reference, the Kobo version with the DRM removed is 14,385KB
>>141816515
Kobo, hands down.
>>141816515
>pirated LNs and books?
Do these actually exist for licensed light novels?
>>141816693
Can I find it outside of the states?
Sorry, I would usually look it up myself but I can't do it right now.
>>141816749
What do you mean?
>>141816317
Well, he does nothing else, so he has plenty of time to refine ideas. Dismissing the quality purely based on quantity is a pretty dumb thing to do. That said I'll admit I like his works because to me, he gets just the right level of crazy to make things fun.
>>141816841
>Can I find it outside of the states?
Given that Kobo is a Canadian company owned by a Japanese e-commerce giant, I would certainly think so. You'll have to be more specific where you mean by outside the States.
I fucking hate normies
>>141817181
Lurk more /r9k/shitter.
>>141805263
Covers aside, I'm enjoying their translation very much.
