Been reading 52ヘルツのクジラたち | L31. 2021 本屋大賞. Really enjoying it; guess I’m into childhood trauma resolutions 
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So the subscription just renewed today for Audible JP, and all the books in my library stopped working which sucks massively.
Tried everything from VPN, using the browser, no dice. Says the book is not available in my country.
The downloads are also gone, they are all with that nasty lock.
If it had stopped working earlier I’d have not renewed… now I feel a bit scammed out.
Does it still work for you?
This is how it shows:
Edit:
Seems like reading above, it also happened to you but it resolved by itself?
Fingers crossed but… I don’t have my hopes up.
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My experience with purchases is that they tend to work, if the purchase goes through. The problem sometimes is getting the purchase through as it will decline most of the times.
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I’m not sure what is happening either but KADOKAWA titles were locked for me too, but then I read this https://www.reddit.com/r/audible/comments/dmh1il/updated_tutorialbypass_audible_region_lock/?sort=new
Which may be the reason why I have access again. That is, changing your billing address to a japanese one, because that somehow determines your location I suppose?
Its a 5 year old post but people in the comments say its still working to this day. Amazon must know about it by now, you’d think they deliberately left this back door open.
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I’ve tried, but no luck.
I’ll let it sit with the JP address and see.
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Finished:
- ソードアート・オンライン3 フェアリィ・ダンス | L34 - loved it (already knew that). Will definitely wait b4 reading the next volume (vocabulary)
- ツバサ | L25 18-19 - These were emotionally hard volumes for me, and despite having read before, I am soooooooo confused about the last chapter of vol 19
- やがて君になる | L23 (reread) - really amazing… This time I’m torn between Yuu and Sayaka for favorite character. Really not a fan of Touko, though I can appreciate the ending.
- はなにあらし 1 | L17 (reread) - wanted more yuri after やが君 (笑). I’ll wait till I own the physical volumes to continue, probably
It was interesting reading やが君 in such close proximity to ささ恋. For the first few chapters of ささ恋, they seem similar (main character designs and the initial hook), but they really have nothing in common otherwise. They’re probably my two favorite yuri - or at least the ones that have left the strongest impression on me - but for completely opposite reasons. (青い花 | L27 is a close runner up, and citrus | L25 also left a strong impression on me… but for the wrong reasons)
君に紡ぐ傍白 will probably be my next reread. 3 full color volumes. College student yuri with characters who aren’t hiding their relationship, and aren’t afraid of physical & emotional intimacy. I can finally write a review for volume 2, this time around 
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I finally was able to get myself to start 2.43 next4years today! The front and back covers have pencil sketches by the series’ illustrator Yamakawa Aiji of Subaru, Chika, and Yuni in their Keyakisha game uniforms. They’re so pretty. I wish I could draw like that one day…
Not that I read a whole lot today though; I’m way too tired. I’ve read part of the prologue before—tried reading it online at one point, I think while I was still on the 代表決定戦編? idk my memory’s terrible—and while I do remember some of it, I don’t remember this opening bit lol
Ahhh but I’m so excited to finally be reading this. I’m excited to see how their dynamics change in college, and also to get more of Yumikake. I got super attached to him in the 春高編, and it’s entirely possible he may usurp Aoki as my fave.
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I’ll report back after my subscription renews towards the end of May, if i get locked out again.
If you do get access back though, I recently discovered that you can save the files locally (ググってくださいね), so even if you do get locked out again, at least you can still listen to them. You’ll just need some dedicated disk space of course.
Oh and just an extra note, I had two cards on my account, I removed the one I hardly ever use, so just leaving the one card on the account. Just thought i’d mention in case that might make a difference, maybe all cards need to be switched to a JP address?
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Sadly seems to be too late, I’ll probably won’t be renewing, and go back to stuff I can buy in Audible.com
Just for reference, where did you add the billing address? I did it on Amazon but yeah, it didn’t change the lock behaviour. I didn’t even use my normal amazon accounts so it doesn’t get any mixed data in…
I did it on amazon.jp too.
Perhaps I did just get lucky then.
Started playing 夢現Re:Master b/c it’s 60% off on Steam for GW, and it has overwhelmingly good reviews, sounds interesting (yuri + game dev office setting), etc. I’m only 3 hrs in, but so far I’m very… confused? on the fence? underwhelmed, but still interested? Also started NEW GAME! -THE CHALLENGE STAGE.
夢現Re:Master
The premise is completely unbelievable - a girl who can’t so much as touch type, and barely knows anything about computers or game design/development, gets scouted to a game dev company b/c it will somehow be helpful for her younger sister (who cut off contact with her 5 years ago)… but just gotta roll with that. The way the office functions is also incredibly unrealistic so far. The coworker interactions border between mysterious and kinda fun and interesting, to asinine and borderline insulting to your intelligence. I guess it depends on your expectations…
The part that really should be interesting: the game dev aspect is so far a really lost opportunity, as it starts from the most basic of basics (which is bg knowledge that anyone playing a VN probably already has). I can’t help but compare it to NEW GAME! | L22, which really nailed making the game dev stuff both accessible and interesting.
On a brighter side, the protagonist is enjoyable, and the emotional side of things is kinda interesting so far, and the aesthetic is really on point. The language is a good level for me (at most 2-4 unknown words per screen). So it’s great for vocab acquisition. Everything besides the protagonist’s internal monologue (which there is a lot of) is voiced.
NEW GAME! -THE CHALLENGE STAGE
This one is really simple language wise, so far, and everything is voiced (besides Aoba’s internal monologue). So far it’s basically what you’d expect from the anime. EAGLE JUMP got an urgent request for DLC, and Aoba’s put in charge. There’s different routes (non-romantic I assume). The (mostly) simple language almost felt like a let down, right after 夢現Re:Master… but it’s not like I have zero lookups either. So far though this has been the easiest VN I’ve tried to read, and I can mostly follow in realtime. So I guess I’ve got something nice to relax with
If anyone’s played 夢現Re:Master, I’d be curious to hear your thoughts. I’ll probly keep playing it for language learning, and also cuz I already spent the money on it
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Hey thank you, this worked for me after a bunch of titles started being region locked recently 
Maybe unlikely but just in case - did you check whether the address looks right when editing your credit card on Audible directly? I tried adding a Japanese address on Amazon first and that didn’t work, until I saw that while that updates Audible automatically it didn’t quite fill the right address fields on Audible (the 区・市町村 value was in the address field or something). Shifted it around so it’s correct and now it works 
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I finished 魔法少年なつき×らびっツ 4 完 | L24 last night, and thus the series. What an awesome series, @shablul and @bibliothecary! Fantastic recommendation, and I wish there were more volumes. 
Like, I’d take filler episode-esque “let’s track down the magic doodads!” type thing; I just want more interactions with the main cast, haha.
Now I’m curios @bibliothecary: is your banner official art, or fanart?
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Official, found on the mangaka’s twitter - I just added the background. 
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If you liked I really do recommend trying the mangakas other stuff
Her style of storytelling and character build is very distinctive across all her works and I honestly think you would like them!
Edit; forgot to say that I’m really happy to hear you liked it 
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I’m definitely thinking I’ll have to; なつき surprised me with how consistently entertained I was, and I was impressed how the author managed to give each character a reasonable amount of screentime despite only having four volumes to work with.
Do you have a suggestion with with series I start with?
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魔法使いの弟子 is also a finished series so I would personally go there and then to 僕の呪いの吸血姫 since it’s still ongoing (the longest so far!)
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Woah, 僕の呪いの吸血姫 is by the 魔法少年なつき×らびっツ author? I would’ve never guessed, considering how different they are in genre and subject matter, but since I think both are brilliant I now gotta check out the third one there 
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I just read chapter 1 of Crystal Hunters. I was able to mostly understand the sentences, looking up a couple words here and there. But what’s nice is that those words were repeated multiple times, so I’ve already learned a lot just from this. It feels almost like I’m cheating, being able to read this early, but if it works, it works.
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Nah, I’d say crystal hunters is doing it’s job, then! You are being served a quality product.
Wait a minute, I didn’t realize they expanded into other languages. Do not look at them, do not look at them…
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