Perhaps it's as similar to her writing as the Garamond fonts are to M. Garamond's?

Excellent work. I thought it was official art for a moment there. Cuteness overload.

I, for one, welcome our new Bookworm overlords.

If you want some discussion of fictional worlds and our world, dealt with by a very thoughtful historian - check out https://acoup.blog/ .

@awwkaw said in Bookworm Part 4 Vol. 5 Discussion!:

Before I get started on my thoughts, I have to ask, how old is Damuel again? isn't he at least 21? isn't Philine only 11? I hope that doesn't go anywhere, although 10 years of difference is not much in the world setting.

It's also not a huge difference in our world either as evidenced by checks notes my parents. Of course, my mother was a college grad when she started pursuing my father; it's not the absolute difference but the relative (perceptual) one.

Another bit is that they wouldn't be marrying until she's 15, at least... and that 15 is >17 in Earth years, and 25 is <29. It's actually about an 11 1/2 year difference in age (ignoring birth seasons that I can't be bothered to check)

@blakamation There is an actual (not "possible") on-going spin-off that you can read right now. There are 26 chapters released already (though the release pace is rather slow, just a few chapters per year). Unsurprisingly the spin-off sequel contains spoilers for the end of the story, so I do not recommend you go and try to find information about the spin-off before reading the main story until the end of part 5.

On top of that there is a possible "proper" sequel that the author has expressed interest on writing.

Finally, Myne can stop being jealous of the ample, full figure of other ladies. Hopefully. Maybe.

Hello,

Just as a reminder, errors found in published ebooks should be emailed to support@j-novel.club

That will ensure the people handling ebook corrections see them.

Thank you

I'll expand on what @Lily-Garden said here and one non-light novel. I'm assuming a big draw for you is good world building.

Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools
As the series progresses we're learning bits and pieces about how the society in which Dahlia lives functions. A lot of it is, fittingly, focused on industry and commerce as Dahlia becomes and independent business woman and craftsperson. She has to deal with issues like securing a supply chain for goods only harvest-able from monsters and the increasingly severe socio-political ramifications of her inventions. Much like Myne people recognize the value of her innovations and the world is responding accordingly. With so few volumes under its belt it's hard to judge if this world building is going to be as thorough as Bookworm's is but I think it could proudly claim to be an adequate peer.

Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World
While the world building in this series is great its strongest point is its cast of characters. Erich, the lead, isn't a generic protag-kun isekai cutout. He has a distinct personality, responds to situations with vibrant emotion, is keenly self and socially aware, and rambles on about the minutiae in an endearing way if you're the type that can handle a complex, meandering prose. A word of warning: in addition to being the author's love letter to table top gaming it's a vehicle where the author gets to profess their adoration for "step on me" monster girls. Its fetish fuel is not an insignificant component. Also if you're an arachnophobe you might struggle as the designated childhood friend is half spider.

And for my non-light novel recommendation we have:

Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder (Part 1 of the Virga series)
A steampunk sci-fi series set inside a fullerene dysonsphere where cities generate artificial gravity via centripetal force and the interior is lit up by small artificial suns. Whereas Bookworm excels at micro-world building this series excels on it at a shallower macro scale. Being a series of essential adventure stories we get a taste of numerous locations and each one is expanded upon just enough to feel worth your time and each polity seen makes sense within the context of the unique physics of the world. It also does an excellent job building a meta-arc by dropping hints about Virga's place within the greater universe, outside the walls of its sphere.

The nice thing about stuff like the wiki and the primer is that they’re accessible to non-JNC-subscribing Bookworms, while forum threads are not. Which is fine for discussions/debates/random tidbits of info from Quof/etc., but for something like what you’re suggesting, I don’t know if the forums are the best place to organize all that info.

@ю-р-ktyyixo So, that fixes some issues with Damuel's potential future, since his brother "got the family"...

Already sent this to support, but I thought that I’d post it here, too:

Given that the printed version is out already, better late than never?

Reading version 1.1 via the “Books” app on an iPad.

At pg 82/271 - “we should be able to finish much quicker than last year” ->
“finish much more quickly than last year” reads/sounds better to me, especially
coming from Ferdinand.

At pg 90/271 - “the small feystones dotting its hilt” -> This is in reference to
Leidenschaft’s spear. I think of a sword having a hilt, but a spear having
a shaft.

At pg 115/271 - “That’ll give us less problems in the future, too.” -> “fewer problems”,
although I could see Sylvester not caring about grammar when he’s not in Aub
mode.

@loreamire-nhymryedel said in What happened to Giebe Joisontak?:

Is Viscount Joisontak and direct family get punished or all nobels in the giebe? Is the land now available to be gifted to a noble in Florencia's faction? Or does the map not change as it gets left to a distant relative with same name

His immediate family and his servants were executed I imagine. Who took over is a good question, one that will likely be answered in some way later.

Note however, that Joisontak is the name of the province actually, not necessarily the family name. Brigitte's family's name for instance is Ambros and Count Haldenzel's name is Gutheil. The province's name doesn't have to change just because another family took over. Only the aub's family name determines the name of the duchy, like when Eisenreich became Ehrenfest.

Well the poll wrapped up a few days ago and, as expected, 1st place goes to "when Schwartz and Weiss' outfits are changed". It was a surprisingly close contest with Hildebrand getting bored and visiting the library being in 2nd at only three votes less.

Philine being just the cutest at 3rd indicates that there is indeed a semblance of justice to the universe.

@thegrimlich and several seasons later there was a scene that involved a giant onigiri rolling down a hill and they couldn't limit themselves to changing the dialogue in a way that didn't make sense so they also edited every frame to replace the onigiri with a submarine sandwich. The sandwich about an axis perpindicular to the way you would expect a submarine sandwich to roll

@killerrin said in How do hidden rooms work?:

@anonymous0070 said in How do hidden rooms work?:

Person A registers room.
Person B is captured and locked in hidden room.
Person C re-registers room.
No body, no evidence.

DnD logic would specify that when the magic runs out, anything inside the room that doesn't originate from the same spell is forcible tossed and piled out the front door. Which can lead to some hilarious shenanigans when roleplaying.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a similar situation here.

In the White Cat series, there's actually a being who oversees all the 'pocket dimensions' used as storage space.

When the individual a given storage space is registered to dies, effectively their 'access code' is retired, and that space becomes available for reuse.
When it does get reissued, the contents of the room are lost forever; they just go 'poof', as it were.
The storage spaces don't get reissued all that rapidly; there's a period of time where it exists with the items stashed in it prior to being reissued, and the entity overseeing all of this sometimes says, "This item is neat, I'm going to toss it into some random other person's space."
Thus, sometimes stuff just miraculously appears within your storage space.
She also sometimes goes, "Urk. I don't want this to go 'poof', but don't want to shuffle it randomly into an existing space just now," so adds it to the space she dwells within until the proper opportunity arises to gift it to someone specific who would appreciate it.

Something like that, anyway; it's a long time since I was reading that series, I really should pick up where I left off sometime.

Due to the one-week gap in Bookworm pre-pub I've continued my manga story reading, this time on Google Play (goodbye Comixology!).

My thoughts, reactions and observations from volumes 8 (AKA Part 2 Volume 1):

spoiler

@arghc
It follows someone else. it's extremely spoilery since it takes place after bookworm, so i'd suggest you not read it yet.