I was super excited to read this based on the premise and MAL reviews, but it’s still one of the worst books I’ve read in Japanese. I don’t really remember the plot points since it’s been so long since I read it, but the writing quality was also pretty lackluster.
(Yes, I am one of those low score reviewers, but I can’t help but chime in on this book in particular because the book felt like such a lost opportunity)
The first three volumes of この素晴らしい世界に祝福を! | L29 are on sale on Kindle for ¥11 each.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00FZH3NR0/ref=nosim?tag=natively0d-22
If it weren’t for the new nasty DRM, the whole series is quite cheap as well.
Don’t quote me, as I haven’t tried it myself, but I believe I’ve seen a solution floating around.
Can someone tell me how to even buy Japanese ebooks on Kindle? First of all you need a separate Kindle, right?
Make account on Amazon jp with a different email and a random physical japanese address.
i think I saw a recommendation for that because logging in from kindle device it just asks for credentials and not for marketplace, unlike apps & websites. If anyone is using the same email and can prove/disprove would be nice.
Normal (non jp) credit cards should work. If it complains, use vpn (set to Japan) for one purchase and then it should work without vpn.
Note that you cannot use you usual and you amazon jp account on a device together. You’ll have to log out from one and log in to another and all your downloaded books will have to go back to cloud. I don’t know what happens to stuff you’ve sent/copied to kindle - I’d assume it goes to Kindle’s cloud, but idk.
After that it’s the usual - one-click buy on the site (because app doesn’t support purshace anymore), same as your normal amazon.
UPD: I see I didn’t set my phone number on that acc (neither in the address nor for the 2FA), and had no issues with for the last two years. My website is set to English so when I went to bother support about light novels not being grouped nicely in series like manga is, it automatically put me through to English-speaking support email, which is nice as I can’t write at all lol
I would make sure to note down that address somewhere, in case of a reclaim to a blocked account.
There was a case where (though not with Amazon) reclaim was impossible, because the person “couldn’t remember their address“, which is of course a fishy situation as you actually said that you live there.
The first 5 volumes of 准教授・高槻彰良の推察 民俗学かく語りき | L31 are on sale for about 140 yen each.
They’re also part of the coin back promotion on BW that makes them even cheaper if you have coins (or will use them in the future 
).
Now to find rime to read these 5 novels 
I’ve never actually used Bookwalker before, but I am looking to move away from Amazon. Any handy guides? Especially for deDRMing?
I don’t think there is a publicly disclosed way to dedrm bookwalker books.
I believe kobo can be dedrm’d when using the windows app. Saw a video about that short while back. I got an older kindle which still downloads books in the old format, meaning I can still dedrm those books.
I use GitHub - xuzhengyi1995/Manga_downloader: A Manga download framework using selenium. for Bookwalker manga. It leaves the pages as separate images (and it splits any 2 page spreads in half). To get it to proper comic formatting you’ll want a tool like KCC comic converter in addition.
It’s also manual work, you have to run it and manually page through the entire volume, but don’t go too fast or it will skip pages. It also will get pages mixed up sometimes (Namely the table of contents and inside covers will sometimes get switched around). Overall it’s a good idea to check its progress while ripping.
And, worst of all (for me anyway), it only works on Windows.
It tried it with books, but from my testing it fails pretty miserably. I tried 2 free sample books. It failed to capture anything from one of them, and only pulled ~10% of the other. Also, it saves the pages as images, the same as with comics.
Finally, the last time it was updated was almost 2 years ago, and the latest official version release was a year before that, so I would only expect it to get more out of date and less reliable over time.
I’ve also found GitHub - VermiIIi0n/fuckBookWalker: Download books from bookwalker.jp/bookwalker.com.tw while writing this comment. I’ll report back in a bit with if/how well it works.
It works! And it’s so much better than the other solution! It automatically downloads everything, and it works on Linux! Though I did spend more than an hour failing to get it to work on Windows.
It even downloads proper books! Granted, they are downloaded as images, but I’m pretty sure that’s just how Bookwalker serves its books in the first place.
Though be aware that you will need Chrome/Chromium version 145 (And will need to uninstall any older versions) which you will need the beta branch of Chrome to get and you need Python 3.13 or greater, which was a bit annoying on my older Ubuntu 22 install.
Also, it is a command line tool, so non-techy people may be intimidated, but it’s not actually that complicated to use.
You will still need a tool like KCC comic converter to package the pages together nicely.
oh darn I never got why this doesn’t work for me, it was because I never tried with the beta branch of chrome! Thank you for leading me onto the correct path, lol. This is so much nicer than everything else I was using.
I only used python 3.12. though, still works.
Well, 僕の心のヤバイやつ 1 - 桜井のりお - 電子書籍・無料漫画ならブックライブ has a sale again (first 5 volumes are half? price [I bought them already, so I can’t see the price] and free to read for a while) because of the anime coming out. That’s the booklive link, but I assume other platform will have the same offer.
Amazon jp is doing a sale for expensive books, which for us means that a complete edition for a number of series is now with some crazy sales…
Some examples for what I’m going to consider (OreImo didn’t make the cut, but it’s also there if you… like it…).
17 volumes of Spice and Wolf 80% off
26 volumes of Shakugan no Shana 80% off
33 volumes of Mahouka 78% off (If I filtered out OreImo I guess this shouldn’t be here either)
13 volumes of Toradora 60% off
23 volumes of Rental Magica 60% off
13 volumes of Trinity Blood 60% off
Kaze no Stigma (seems like there was a series and a sequel series, this is both) 60% off
9 volumes of No. 6 only 30% off, but considering the recent hype it’s amazing it got on this sale. Btw there is book club for vol 1 coming up!
Kadokawa is celebrating 80 years and basically a whole lot of stuff is (up to) 80% off on Bookwalker. 
Some notable examples:
Oh man, a consolidated version of 17 volumes for 狼と香辛料 sounds awful. I wish they’d put the individual volumes on sale.
What’s bad about consolidated editions?
I haven’t read any before
