I'm back,
1st:
These light novels are not scanned, these are text based ebooks. You can search and select the text and look up words in a dictionary if you don’t know it. I would suggest to download both an english to japanese and a japanese monolingual dictionary. You can encounter some japanese slangs that are not written in an english-japanese dictionary but in a japanese monolingual dictionary.
2nd: You don’t need a Kindle to read these files an android tablet is also able to read these files just download FBReader: Favorite Book Reader or Ebookdroid for android in the google play store, both are normally free and can read these files.
3rd if a ebook is not listed on the list, i don’t have it.So, no i don’t have マケン姫っ! light novel, sorry.
4th, i don’t buy something that’s not interesting for me. That’s my library at this moment, i buy these light novels in bulk each month because i read a lot. So it will change of course, generally speaking i buy light novels each first friday night of the month. That way i can enjoy them after work and read them during the weekend. So my next purchases will be next friday, the 4th of May.
@KK senpai
You’re welcome,
I dabbled in japanese during my high schools days, but didn’t go beyond a few hundred kanjis and a few hundreds words in japanese, because i got exhausted, so i gave up and learned german and czech(both needed for work), where i refined my language learning skills and learned a lot about language learning. I got interested in japanese again when i wanted to play a visual novel which isn’t translated. I started by reading doujinshis, visual novels and then got to light novels, after playing 2 visual novels. And to tell you the truth i learn more japanese by reading light novels than playing visual novels.
The one method that was and still is effective for learning japanese any other language is ( or a variant of this method): Learn the language basics either in a class or self study with textbooks and a teacher or native and once you have the basics right go directly to native material (material that is intended for japanese and not japanese learners) and use textbooks and grammar books only as reference, not primary learning material. The problem is that most text books are not good as they will make you taking the habit of a slow and very simplified version of the language and are also too slow in the progression. One important thing with this method is when you are not sure, ask, japanese is not a cartesian language such as french with strict rules, etc… Another thing, we learn vocabulary from context, that is important. This is not something i just made up, that is backed up by several reasearchers in 2nd language acquisition. Only understanding this will make language learning much more efficient.
Franky sensei’s thread about how to learn japanese by playing eroge (
http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/lessons-58/japanese-erogamers-660038/) is also well written. All the manga that i read, i read them in japanese. The same for anime, If i really don’t understand something in an anime i try to guess it from context and if i really can’t find it, i ask a someone and if nobody is able to answer me than i will watch first the japanese subtitles if they are available, and then if i still don’t understand i will watch the english subtitles, which is the last resort.
Voilà my method for learning japanese, of course that’s just a really condensed version. There a much more to this than just the method, you have to know yourself (how you learn when you are tired, not tired, when you’re motivated, etc..), understand how the brain works (it’s the unconscious part of our brain which handles the language not the conscious part, so if you learn vocabulary without context, you won’t create understanding of the word and its nuances in your brain but a pavlovian response to an external stimuli for example, which is useless when you want to read as words have nuances). I hope i answered your question, don’t hesitate if you need more precision, KK senpai