The final week is posted! Thanks for joining the club, all!
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I’ve been listening to the drama CD on my commute and just reached CD 7. Standing at 2h, It’s twice as long as usual! I would say it also covers some of my favorite parts, but act 5 (volumes 22~end) itself is basically my favorite part 
But more specifically it covers the content of volumes 28-29. CD 8 covers content of volumes 29-30, so it seems the editors also thought that this part is the best and started covering it much more consistently.
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Ooh thanks, I’ll have to remember to avoid those. The English prepub of 29 comes out next week, then roughly a volume every two months so I’ll have to avoid the later CDs until the English release catches up
…unless my reading speed suddenly and drastically improves and I start binging one volume a day like I did in English lol. Nothing but 本好き 
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I also did nothing but read that series until the end of the (Japanese) published books. Then, once I reached the end of the publication, I went on to read the web novel instead.
(When I noticed there were some minor plot differences, I went back and read all of it; there’s never enough 本好き).
The last volume comes out in 3 days! わくわく!
(The author said there should be a lot more contents compared to the web novel too!)
Nice! I loved that volume! … it ends in the middle of something, though. Waiting 2 more months will be frustrating, I think 
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For anyone keeping up with the anime, Part 3 was announced. The studio is apparently changing to Wit Studios so hopefully the animation and overall adaption strategy will improve. I’m just hoping they’re going to have enough episodes to do so (fingers crossed)
EDIT FOR A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Be careful looking up info. The announcement I saw (along with the announcement for CD10) is on the cover for Part 5 V12… Japans blase approach to spoilers in anime continues to baffle me.
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I’ve reached the last drama cd published so far. I might have binged them a bit outside of my commute There are only two days until the last volume comes out, but I don’t think it will hold until then 
I think it’s more an announcement for people who are reading the books 
The cover isn’t a spoiler for people who have read volume 28 and later. I mean, it’s technically a spoiler up to volume 29, but people won’t know what they are looking at. (I think it’s also a nice callback to the cover of volume 1)
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Only a few hours until the last volume comes out! I may or may not stay up until then
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Oooh, I hope it’s a great and satisfying closer!
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Well, the end of the webnovel was extremely satisfying as far as I am concerned, but the author said that they were rushed with it due to working on the published version in parallel, so that, this time they will add a lot of stuff, turning it into its true final form.
ドキドキワクワク!
Edit: oh wait, it’s here already!
Instabuy
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The series is finally finished? Like, really really finished? This makes me happy. I have been burned a few times by book series in the past. 
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For those who want to continue, currently Amazon has a sale:
Vols 1-3 Free
Vols 4-12 99 yen each.
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The web novel version has been over for a few years. It’s just the publication finally picking up to it. So yes, it really is the end.
However, there is a spin off series that is ongoing (as a web novel). It follows different characters but I really like it too, so I hope it gets picked up as well by the publisher.
(Well, the series is doing so well, I don’t see them not picking it up)
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And I finished the last volume! It was amazing.
It’s not only a callback, they are so proud of it that they added a side by side in the あとがき. I like it a lot
Confirm in the あとがき and announcements after it. Not that I had any doubt, but still. The first volume is planned for next summer!
Edit: I kept trying to find CD 10 on audible, but it turns out CD 9 only became available six months after it was released… so I may have to wait a little bit then.
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I’ve been reading this too long (though I’m nearly finished!).
Spoke to my niece in England today for Xmas. I asked what she was reading then I briefly mentioned the plot of this book. Short silence. “I think you told me that last time I saw you.” Longer silence. Now I’m trying to justify “it’s in Japanese, I’m reading very slowly” to a 6 year old…
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Tell her to read a 400 page book written by Shakespear in a non-modernized version and then come talk to you again. 
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本好き has a spin-off series now…
and I have heard talks about a sequel/part 6 to the main series. I will never finish this series. 
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I think the sequel is the one you just linked. (It is a sequel anyway)
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Don’t lose hope! I thought the same thing when I finally finished the first volume almost 4 years ago, and look at me now: still struggling to catch up only 5 volumes from the end of the series! 
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but the end is getting pushed further and further… it’s a moving goal post…
but hey, good on you for persevering… 
I had planned on reading 1 volume per month… I think I have read 1 volume (vol 7) this year so far. I am good at planning. Clearly. Guess, I’ll put it on my list again next year. 
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I won’t necessarily have a ton of updates as I go, but I started reading 本好き2 a few days ago and wanted to post some thoughts.
Spoilers for halfway through ch.4
I thought マイン was a bit overdone in the first volume, but maybe having such a long break in between it and volume two has helped my perception of her. She feels more like a precocious 6(?)-year-old than the “omg I isekai’d where book” from the first, at least so far. I’ve been a bit surprised how quickly we’ve moved to technical explanations for 和紙-making, tool-making, and contract/business stuff; I’m definitely glad things are moving from the end of the first book, though. I do remember there being some in-depth paper-making talk in the first book, granted, so that’s one part where a long time in-between hasn’t really helped me.
I am wondering if I should go back and re-read the final epilogue chapter of 本好き1, since I remember an important conversation happening then, and I want to make sure I have all the known details now that the topic of 契約魔術 has been raised. It is quite interesting how apparently only nobles have 魔術 (ignoring for the moment the speculation at the end of vol. 1 that マイン might have access as well; I can only assume for the moment that she’s a special isekai case); I’m curious if it’s actually an innate ability or related to the technology they have at hand that may be providing the magic instead of the person themselves. If it’s the former, I’m curious what kind of worldbuilding explanation will be provided for that, if any at all. I’m trying to think of any other fantasy books that deal with a concept like that, and the only one that immediately comes to mind is Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn it actually deals with both use cases, but I digress.
マイン not knowing any kind of unit of measure was an interesting one as well; I’m curious if that was just due to her age, or if her class of parents truly just didn’t need anything more than “I want two yams”.
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