Free: 50+ Volumes of Light Novels Free to Read in April @ J-Novel Club x BookWalker

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  alvian on 03/04/2020 - 20:00

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  Please note that downloaded eBooks from this promotion will only be readable until April 30th, 2020 PT.

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  nerd1 on 03/04/2020 - 20:04

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  ummm are they suitable for childern? the titles are a bit … iffy

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    pj1351 on 03/04/2020 - 20:31

    As a rule of thumb, light novels are generally suitable for young adult and older.

    Manga and then anime adaptations of the same works usually get sanitised to reach potentially wider (read: younger) audiences.

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      Rolling245 on 03/04/2020 - 21:54

      That's not true. There is a wide range of light novels that target early teens to mature adults. However, generally speaking, they are for kids in their adolescence. That's why protagonists of light novels are usually high school students.

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        pj1351 on 03/04/2020 - 22:22

        Young adult demographic = 12 to 18 years old.
        https://www.thebalancecareers.com/the-young-adult-book-marke…

        I'm not sure where the disagreement is supposed to be?

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          Rolling245 on 03/04/2020 - 22:30

          @pj1351: The law (at least in ACT) nor I do not consider Kids under 18 as adults.

          The Children and Young People Act 2008 (ACT) refers to the Legislation Act 2001 that defines an adult as a person who is at least 18 years old.

          That is the disagreement between you and me.

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            pj1351 on 03/04/2020 - 23:03

            @Rolling245: So the disagreement is between me using "young adult" in the context of a common industry term/category for books aimed at a certain age demographic, while you're insisting that it doesn't fit the legal definition of "adult"?

            Great. Now you have me imagining people walking into random book stores (what few that still remained even before the virus hit), yelling at the staff that the characters and audience for books in the "young adult" section does not actually fit the legal definition of "adult".

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              Rolling245 on 03/04/2020 - 23:37

              @pj1351: No, you said the light novels are suitable for young adult and older. You did not use the term as a category for books, but a age demographic. Young adults usually are understood as people over 18 and under 25. Therefore, I had to point out that light novels are generally for kids in their adolescence.

              Rather than accept that you have made someone confused with your mistake, you pretend that you meant the same thing when young adults are commonly understood as people in their late teens and their early twenties. If someone insists that young adults mean kids between 13 - 18, I wouldn't yell, but consider the guy some weirdo or paedophile.

              Here is another definition by Cambridge Dictionary which could be found in book stores and libraries.

              young adult : a person who is in his or her late teenage years or early twenties:
              https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/young…

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  jjcf on 03/04/2020 - 20:41

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  As if its not bad enough that millions of people are in isolation, now we want to turn them into weebs as well?

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    DarthAntz on 04/04/2020 - 01:43

    rofl +upvote

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  Rolling245 on 03/04/2020 - 22:13

  A shitty collection of books, except very few. They won't turn any person into weebs with those novels. Then again, there are only few light novels that are actually more than tolerable.
  Out of all, I might read "Sorcerous Stabber Orphen" and "The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress" again out of boredom, but just the first volume? Nah…

  I wish they had at least included "Spice & Wolf", "Boogiepop" and some other well-written books.