📚 Book giveaway to support Natively 💙

aha, thank you so much!1! I looked everywhere and couldn’t figure it out but didn’t even think about that little menu. It’s a wiki now!

I don’t mind if anyone already has ideas to make it more general and add books, otherwise I’ll take a stab at that later tonight or tomorrow.

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Hello there New to the Community , although a little bit late do you have any other litrature in japanese any book format now( I thought you might already gave it all away by now but I thought I’d just ask)

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@mitrac I can’t believe I missed this thread - You’re absolutely amazing! This is a really inspiring thing to do and put a smile on my face. Thank you so much :smiling_face:

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Welcome!

I have a copy of NHKにようこそ I’d be thrilled to give away if per chance you or anyone else is in the US and want it. It’s hard-back (like a paperback, but with a slightly harder cover than normal, instead of a dust jacket), and BookOff doesn’t want it cuz the ISBN is old-school :woman_shrugging:

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Thanks for reviving this thread! Yes I’ve been meaning to update this and make it more general as a book crossing thread for others to contribute to. I’ll do that this weekend

:tada: mission accomplished :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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That’s so nice of you’ll , although I am from South Asia(india) after searching for novels through out the market. now I am so desperate to atleast read something in Japanese xd.

I know this might be a bit of a hassle, but if shipping is possible on your end, I’d be really grateful. Of course, I’m happy to cover all the costs.

(It’s totally fine if that’s not possible, and I’m glad others will get to enjoy it.

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If you don’t already know it, let me praise https://www.aozora.gr.jp/. It has older novels and short stories online. You can also download a PDF to use some e-reader.

There also is the Open Library project where you could read books for some weeks for free, like in a physical library.

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I wish I could send all the books I want to get rid off for this cause, but sadly the shipping from here has prevented me from even selling them myself even at 1€ a piece.

It is for me cheaper to lug them in a suitcase to a bigger city and sell them there, than handle them from where I am… which is something I might have to plan this year.

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I have a couple of Korean books I’d be happy to send out, but now that I think about it, I also have French and Spanish books that I would love to get rid of send to a loving home.
I’ll try to make a list sometime. Thank you for bringing this thread back! (And for creating it in the first place :smiling_face:)

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Aside from aozora, there are also webnovels, some of which have been published. Not everything is marked, but the search function on natively has a decent amount that you could start with: Japanese Books Difficulty List | Natively

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Actually, I read コンビニ人間 online, but you really can’t beat the feeling of reading a physical book.
Thank you all for your replies.

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that’s awesome! I’d love to take it, and if you’d like I’m totally happy to pay for shipping. Thanks so much for offering!

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Cool, pm me your address, and I’ll mail it on Friday

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@Okayjapanese i upgraded you to a basic user, please remove that email and DM! :laughing: :sweat_smile:

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ok everyone, sorry it took me a while, at long last I have

  • moved this post to the all languages category
  • made the first post a wiki and hopefully organised it in a way that works for everyone to post books from any language they want to give away?

Any suggestions, please let me know or feel free to improve on it!

Tagging @HopeWaterfall @暁のルナ @Mara and @monace who had expressed interest in giving away books

:sparkles: have fun!

PS: I still have Slam Dunk Volume 1 if anyone in Germany / EU is interested (it’s brand new because the furigana is so tiny I bought a bigger edition, you’ve been warned :joy:)

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Is anyone here interested in the first two Bartimäus books? In English this series is called Bartimaeus Sequence, I own the first two books in German, they’re in okay condition, perfectly readable and I’d like to give them away since selling them is not really worth it. It’s a YA fantasy series, there are three books + one prequel book in total. Whoever takes them would have to pay for shipping though. Shipping from Germany

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OMG it never occurred to me I could give away German books :rofl: I was so fixated on Japanese books… :melting_face:

So I created a list of German Books to give away | German list by nikoru | Natively
I had to request most of my books, and I will add them to this list over time. So stay tuned! The books are mostly in very good to new condition (please inquire first if perfect condition is important to you).

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That’s really funny because… I didn’t think of that either :joy: I think I even have some Spanish books I could give away. nice idea to use the list function for that, and I see you added the link to the top post so people can find it, yay :star_struck:

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Glad I’m not the only one :rofl:
Maybe some others might get inspired as well… :grin:

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I might have some Japanese books I don’t need.

Is anyone in Australia though?

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