About 4 months ago, I started collecting physical light novels seriously. At first, I just wanted to fill my bookshelf with series I liked. I thought I'd buy a few volumes here and there, but things got a little out of hand lol. I started hunting for second-hand books on local marketplaces, comparing prices between stores, and looking for good deals. Sometimes I found volumes for 40–50k VND ( ~ 1-2$), occasionally even cheaper. Eventually, I started buying entire sets instead of individual volumes. Oregairu, Bunny Girl Senpai, Alya, Angel Next Door, Otome game, InoBato, Shimotsuki, and a bunch of single novels or Makoto Shinkai novels are now part of my collection.

One of the biggest turning points was a book fair where I bought quite a lot of books. The problem? I still had plenty of unread books at home. After that, I had more than a dozen sealed books waiting to be opened, plus several more on the way. I also spent over 6 million VND (~ 300$ ) on books in roughly three months. Seeing that number made me realize how quickly things had escalated. I wasn't just buying books I wanted to read anymore. Sometimes, I bought them because the price was good or because I was afraid I wouldn't find them again. After finding books for 10–50k( ~ 1-2$), paying 90–100k (~ 3-4$) for one volume suddenly felt expensive, even when that was a normal price.

At least, finishing Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu vol. 12.5 reminded me why I started collecting in the first place. I'd been reading that series for a long time, so finally finishing it felt pretty special.I even had a proper bookshelf made and started worrying about humidity, dust, and how to keep the books in good condition for decades. Meanwhile, my reading speed definitely couldn't keep up with my buying speed.

Recently, I've been trying to slow down. I cancelled an order for two novels because I realized I was buying them mostly out of FOMO. There are still books I want, and finding second-hand copies with their original bookmarks is surprisingly difficult, but I'm trying to prioritize the books I already own instead of constantly looking for the next deal.

I still love collecting. I just don't want to reach the point where buying books becomes more enjoyable than actually reading them.

For those of you who collect physical light novels, did you also go through a phase where you bought way more than you could read? How did you manage to slow down without losing the fun of collecting?

I am pretty new to light novels with only having read volumes 13 - 18 of Mushoku Tensei. I am wondering if Toaru would be worth getting into cause I heard it’s pretty long.

Really good, but JESUS CHRIST!

復刊の記事を見た。やはり、読みたいのは表題より、短編集に含まれる「丘に、町が」だろう。別の次元の価値観というか、こいつはやばいという感じ。

Just curious about this title, is there any fight against advanturer's that try to come inside his dungeon? Is this like overlord and slime tensei where they kill a lot of humans or not?

Thanks.

Short , no groping or rape , no love triangle

I’m not much of a light novel reader or haven’t read in a very long time so if anyone has some recs of your FAV and addicting and BEST rated LNs I would appreciate!

Any genre is fine but for context I have read and loved classroom of the elite and the 86 LNs in the past. I do tend to like romance a lot, angst and dark themes, found family/multi- cast of characters but open to any recs

Hello, I am looking for this light novel that Iread maybe a year ago where it has this elements:

Title: Forgotten

ML named Lucien (or maybe not) who builds greenhouses in the desert (No "Gardener" or "Greenhouse" in title) Looking for a translated web novel I read last year (was under 100 chapters at the time):

- ML: Lucien. Started as an orphan in a street gang.

- Desert Arc: Go to the desert for business, adopted a dog that died due to lack of supplies.

- Skills: Built greenhouses and irrigation in the desert (non-magical). Around Ch 80-90, he returns to the capital to construct specialized greenhouses for nobility.

- FL: High noble who meets him secretly behind a garden. Her twin brother willingly helps her sneak out by impersonating/covering for her.

- Title Note: The title does NOT have "Gardener" or "Greenhouse" in it.

Does anyone know the this light novel? I kinda forgot to bookmark it. Thank you for the help

English translation isn’t official, but surely it exists?

Pretty much as it says. Based in the UK and can’t find it in stock anywhere :(

It's a SoL, Cooking, Romance and Isekai. Strangely the combination works so well throughout its 6 volumes. It doesn't seem too popular unfortunately.

I'll give it a score around 8/10 or 9/10, not perfect but a fun read nontheless.

NOT A HAREM

I have been into fantasy light novels for two years. I love fantasy novels and anime that feature swords, magic, and monsters. But I don't really like ones that mix in modern technology and life. My favorites are Konosuba, Re:ZERO, Mushoku Tensei, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Ascendance of a Bookworm, and lots of others.

I am subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, so I can read a lot of them. But the first few volumes are free, and the rest cost money. When I can find an interesting one on Kindle, I buy the rest. How about Kindle Unlimited service in your country?

I read one light novel a day. And I am learning English. I want to talk about light novels in English. I might be able to help you learn Japanese. Please be my friend.

Thanks for reading. Sorry for my poor English.

Can you recommend some light novels that are not from famous countries (america, Korean, Chinese or like anything overated).

Like for example, a Cambodian novel or Romanian novel or Cuban novel or Tibet novel or anything that is not heard from but it is peak.

I like fiction: gotta be romance, action, fantasy, world building, etc. As long as it is filled with interest when reading it.

Ty.

I wanted to start reading it,so I'm curious where to buy it.

I heard there's light novel manga with 13 volumes? Is that right? Is there anyone who read it? And what's your opinion and did it end in 13th volume? Anyway if you have the manga, please send me link where you bought it 🙏🙏

And no spoilers

What I do know is that there is a main character who is at the beginning weak. And he gets a pandun, cultivation, formal I don't know what. And he gets naturally stronger. He has many wives in the story. Although it's diff definitely a harem themed. it's about mature arts. he does practice medicine learns about formations wanders from one continent to another, also in different cultivation continents. I only know that he at the beginning he travels with his mother to another city and there they have the family that he lives in, they have a ship a small shop I don't know what and he goes to a river and fishes fish with children and he puts them in in his small word he has.

So I'm gonna write some facts I know about and hope someone can help me find the novel.

Fact i know about:

1. MC is weak at the beginning and finds something or gets a cultivation method and gets a small world (pendant or i dont know)

2. Later travelled with his mother to another city and there he goes fishing nearby river with children and the fish he finds while fishing, he puts them in his small world. And there they evolve and he sells them and they are delicious in a restaurant.

3. It's I think primary harem based with martial arts based story. It's a good one. He has many wives and also later many children. In his journey he meets many w women that are later his wives. For example, one woman in the first city he comes to, which he rescues from a drug abuse, I think.

4. he is also good at medicine, formations and alchemy in the later time.

5. And I think later in the story he meets a small girl in a I don't know in a forest or I don't know what and that small girl can talk with animals.

I hope someone can help me find this web novel. I'm desperate to read it again.

Thank you.

I have to say this If an author constantly builds up romantic relationships and makes them a mystery with no proper ending or confirmation leaving readers to interpret what happened themselves then they’re not a good writer when it comes to romance

The whole point of telling a story is to give readers an actual narrative not force them to fill in plot holes or come up with their own conclusions because the author refuses to provide a proper resolution

It’s genuinely annoying how so many light novel and web novel authors nowadays can write good romance throughout their stories without necessarily making it the main focus only to reach the end and suddenly take the mysterious route “Well we don’t know what happened between them” Like what

They only use romance to drive sales and then stop writing it altogether as the story progresses There are plenty of manhwa and novels like this and genuinely if I had known beforehand I would have never read these types of stories

Imagine reading 250–500 chapters at minimum because the author keeps building up the romance and making you hope for a satisfying ending only to get hit with “Nobody truly knows how it ended”

Are they together? The story hinted at it Is it confirmed? Not really

These aren’t questions readers should have to ask after investing hundreds of chapters into a relationship If you don’t want to write romance then just don’t But don’t use it to keep readers invested only to abandon it completely when it’s time to deliver an actual conclusion

Hello fellow people, I’m posting this because of an inquiry I have due to an issue that I’ve noticed and continues to grow. I have been deep in my anime watching bag for a while now. For the past two or so years, my main watch has been anime aside for once in a blue moon where I might watch a stream or a live action movie/show. The issue that I’m having is regularly noticing something that seems off to me in the story of an anime, and searching to find out that most of the time I get that feeling it stems from source material to anime adaptation discrepancies. An example I can give is rich girl caretaker. Watching the anime, I found myself confused at a few different things with that story. “Why did hinako fall for him so fast?” “Why did halfway through the season the main heroine somehow just got thrown in the back seat?” “Why do the other heroines get such better relationship development with the mc?” Each time I have questions similar to these (it might not even be romance, I’ve had this same thing with any anime genre.), and I take the time to do some research on it the answer usually comes back to “the anime adaptation left out such and such” or “compressed this volume” or “made this change.” I’ve found that this has been kind of ruining stories for me. Anyways, aside from my yapping (I don’t have a lot of fellow anime enjoyers friends to get this off my chest with lmaooo) I as an American resident would like to know how I can find reliable online sources (IOS friendly; not sure if that matters) for light novels/mangas to read from.

TLDR; I hate how anime adaptations always ruin a story’s progression with their plot compression and changes, so I want to migrate over to light novels and manga. Any good references for online light novel and manga sources that are IOS/American resident friendly?

Thanks in advance! :D

Bonjour,

Suite à ma recherche je n’ai pas trouvé de serveur répondant à mes attentes, j’ai donc essayé de créer mon serveur avec comme thème principal les light novel !
Je ne suis pas experte dans la création de serveur Discord donc il doit y avoir pas mal d’améliorations possibles, mais j’espère pouvoir faire un petit espace sympathique pour pouvoir échanger autour de nos lectures avec la communauté francophone.

Vous pouvez rejoindre avec ce lien si cela vous dit ☺️

https://discord.gg/XCcHuWTvd

If my publication isn’t allowed with a link to a discord I’ll remove it of course !

Hello, it’s pretty much what I wrote in the title, I can speak English but I’m french and sometimes I would like to share in French because it’s easier to write for me
So yeah, anyone know of a discord server primarily in french about Light Novels or about manga/anime with a light novel channel ?
And preferably with adults please, I’m 31 so I’d prefer somewhere at least with clear separation between minors and adults

Thanks in advance 🩵