Sorry, you can buy audiobooks in a lot of places but I don’t know where to find free audiobooks legally.
I’ve seen some people mention there are audiobooks on youtube but I don’t have any experience with that. you could get better answers in a bigger jp learning community probably. Natively forums aren’t that big, and most people probably don’t even check this thread
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Open Library has free stuff incl. audiobooks, but I don’t know how much of the latter is in Japanese.
People usually get their audiobooks with VPN and a yomihoudai offer, as e.g. from Kindle unlimited or bookwalker.
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Gotcha, I just listen to normal music for that… It’s possibly a bit distracting, but I have stuff I’ve listened to enough that I can tune it out
I also found it a bit harder than expected when I tried
Interesting. For me it’s definitely the opposite - tho to be fair, I did find the 美文 style in マリみて pretty difficult at first, and book 1.
That’s exactly what I don’t like about it 
or at least there’s something about his particular way of doing that that makes it hard for me to find my bearings; and it is the author’s style in general. NHKにようこそ! | L32 is the only other book like that I can think of, and I wouldn’t have minded it there, except for that I found the protagonist’s mental state rather agitating, and it was a lot of 妄想 and daydreaming that blurred with reality, to the point that it was hard to know which was which. Actually I found that easier than what I read of Adashima as well, I think.
Actually I guess 灰と幻想のグリムガル | L31 has a lot of that too - and I would not have minded it there, except that it often carried on far too long (it also took until the end of volume 5 for the author to learn the power of summary 
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I mostly agree, and don’t particularly recommend the book. I tried it during an “I wanna try stuff outside of my comfort zone” phase, and decided not to read vol 2. Tangentially, someone dropped a rather displeased review (SPOILERS) of 私の初恋相手がキスしてた | L32 (same author, same Adashima universe) in a discord I’m in - and the stody largely involves a very f’d up adult x minor relationship, and lots of other really intense stuff. Considering he also wrote the Saeki Sayaka novels, the author’s got quite the range.
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Even after 2 books, to me it is still harder than adashima. But descriptive writing is something I sometimes even struggle with in languages I’m far more fluent in.
Although that review is very negative, it actually piqued my interest. I enjoy really messy, dramatic, intense stories where no one gets what they want. I think that’s the sort of age gap I could enjoy 
I’m also curious that the main character apparently shows up in adashima at some point (and vice versa?). Though, I don’t think I will pick it up until my reading speed improves. I don’t like that sort of thing quite that much that I want to spend 3 months on it.
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That’s fair… I think book 3 or so is where it started to click for me. Also like I’ve read 34 of them at this point, and 1.25 of the Adashima author’s (and only slightly tried 佐伯さやか and あだしま)… so there’s a huge bias here I imagine if I got a bit further in, the disparity might feel less. I did find the teacher book easier than the 初恋相手 book tho for w/e reason
Same actually - that’s why I mentioned.
Tbh it’s a bit hard to imagine in either direction. She’s also a prominent side character in the teacher book.
I also would not wanna spend 3 months on that lol
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Thanks ! I see there are audible books on Amazon.jp but fairly pricey without subscription. I might try one in the future.
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Thanks. Will have a look at Open Library, haven’t heard of it before.
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I have found some audio books on YouTube for Japanese so I guess there should be some in other languages too. Apparently Audible (even the free version), Apple books, Spotify premium and some other audio sites have free audiobooks though their options and languages might be restricted based on the country you sign in from. That being said, I have found Japanese books/ audio books on Apple books for free just to download and keep.
If you are looking for Japanese specifically, Oto Navi app does have audio only for graded readers for free (namely the Genki reader sets). not sure if that would be of any interest. And some of the books I have got you the free audio book from audiobooks.JP if you scan it into the app (can’t remember which ones specifically but I do have a mix of textbooks and novels I picked up for free that way).
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Early weekly update because I will be on the road tomorrow.
- Finished level 40 of wk deck at last. There were a few words that were really similiar that slowed me down.
- Finished Chainsawman rewatch. I think I like it more on rewatch it’s such a good adaptation. Also watched a few eps of Doremi.
- Manga: 5 volumes. Done with ハッピーシュガーライフ, though there is an extra short volume. I skimmed through it and wasn’t terribly interested but I’ll probably read it at some point. Started 少女漫画主人公×ライバルさん which is…ok. It’s a quick read and right now I still feel a bit on the verge of burnout so it’s nice to breeze through something.
- Read more adashima. I try to listen to the audiobook afterwards but the only time I have for it is before sleeping and it just … puts me to sleep. Read a bit of 5分後に意外な結末 in an attempt to have something more simple to switch to but the first 2 stories were remarkably pointless. So I’m not sure I will continue that.
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wk deck:40/45
manga: 56+5/75
books:9/6
vns: 1.5/1
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books 3/12 (dropped the book I was reading… 
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- For personal reasons, I will not be adding any new cards the next 1-2 months, so I will remain in level 40 for a while. Since my yearly goal was 45, that’s not a big problem. (similarly I think I will pause my chinese study as well - even thoguh it’s just 5-10 mins a day, right now I don’t want to increase my mental load)
- Mostly focused on manga this week. Read 14 vols, though about half of these are from LIBERTA | L18 which has 50-60 page volumes. It would probably be more like 10 regular sized volumes but if I start taking page sizes into consideration things might get too complicated.
- Didn’t read much of adashima, so I want to focus on it next week since the month is almost over.
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wk deck:40/45
manga: 61+14/75 andd just writing this I realized that’s the perfect amount to reach my goal, couldn’t have done this on purpose if I tried.
books:9/6
vns: 1.5/1
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books 3+1/12
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I flipped through it a bit ok Bookwalker. Looks maybe interesting, but maybe weird. Anything particular you liked/disliked about it?
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I wouldn’t particularly recommend it… It’s an edgy and horny power fantasy, which isn’t inherently bad , btu there isn’t much more to it. The notable thing about it is simply that it stands out among yuri titles. If it was longer id probably not have finished it but at it lenght it was ok for what it was. Also one of the volumes is basically just porn. Which I didn’t expect, the story until then was certainly horny the sex all was offscreen lol. But that volume does have the most suggestive cover, so maybe I should have been clued in.
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ありがとうございます🦆
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