Without any knowledge of what's available literature-wise in Japan, or if the author reads untranslated English literature, I can't make any guesses concerning 'influences' from earlier works in the field.

It's clear she's a decent grasp of stuff related to late Medieval/early Renaissance society and culture.
A decent grasp of the history of 'how we preserve knowledge for future reference'; better than mine, truth be told.

Published works that have been brought to mind while reading this series, but not as inspirations.
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp.
The 1632verse created by Eric Flint.

Rather less so...
Various works by S.M Stirling.
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper

These all have differing takes on the concept of someone (or a group of someones) with modern knowledge being plunked into either the past or an alternate present, and how their dissemination of said knowledge impacts things. They all have a heavy focus on the impact upon military affairs, although the first mentioned rather less than the others iirc...

Other web fiction...
The Somewhere Else Entirely universe created by Penny Lane, over at Top Shelf Big Closet. (If you aren't familiar with this series, go read it now. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, just go read it now.) Deals nicely with the quandaries of what knowledge to release when, and how to do so with minimal negative impact upon the existing social and economic structures, or at least I think they've done well at it.

Wait.
One inspiration I'm pretty sure of...Quidditch, anyone?

@idarktemplar said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@lighthawk96 said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@iDarkTemplar
So, the medal for Myne was cancled out by Fedinand when Gunther came to the temple to report that she died per their agreement.

The medal made during her second baptism is the only active medal tied to the person now known as Rosemyne. So, doing anything to the first medal will yield 0 results as arranged by Ferdinand.

Is there any mention of that in official translated content? I certainly didn't see that.

I’m late to this conversation, however the answer to your question is in Fanbook 1, in the second part.

Here's hoping Suzuka-sensei gets part 5... For all people's complaints about the part 3 art style, part 4's has had an even rougher start in some respects.

@rahul-balaggan said in Differences between releases?:

The Bookworm premiums are Textless color pinups, which you can read about in that list.

These usually are the cover illustration and the main color insert (found in the normal edition) in higher resolution.

Also note that JNC premium editions are DRM-less in an widespread format (epub), so you are not locked to a specific device or app.

@blacksheep can you send out another invite to the discord server? Thank you.

@jcochran I think that the worst parts of the anime are present in the second season, which is ironic considering that the first season adapts 3 volumes but the second only does 2 but frankly is there where I think that the most cuts went through and where the most annoying changes were made. Basically everything outside the temple suffer severe cuts including Tuuli character arc, Benno's restaurant, all of the Guntenbergs and the worst changes Lutz conflict with his family in the end of P2V1 and the scene where Ferdinand read Myne's memories in P2V2. In Lutz case they made his dad be a complete asshole when in the LN is position is much more nuance and is made clear that this was a problem of miscomunication between all his family and in Myne case they change who the scene play out completely and the fact that they cut Ferdinand pov in the end but decide to dedicate a whole episode to Eckhart(Kardest firstborn) and Justus extra chapter from Part 3 is just puttig salt in open wounds.

@hiroto said in Ascendance of a Bookworm Vol. 6 (Manga) Discussion:

I'm just curious if any of you here purchases ebook publication.

One perk of the manga publication is that it come with one original side story. For this volume, it is

spoiler

Same as bonus manga in LN, this story is not available in prepub.

I buy both the physical & ebook versions. The extras are awesome.

@shiroi-hane said in Help me update my facts please:

@caroline with the current beta of the app you can just tap on each volume in turn to see which parts you have read as they will show with coloured in blue for partially read parts or green for fully read parts. Keep going till you get to the unmarked stuff that you haven’t read (although you’d need to buy the book to access the parts now).

You can also get this information all on one screen using Crimson's Progressive Web Apps (PWA) based JNC reader: https://crimson-jnc-reader.appspot.com/ (see https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3353/yet-another-pwa-jnc-client for discussion thread).

@torresleon In the 7th manga volume, there is also a POV chapter from Corinna POV

How come I wasn't aware of this Bewkworm Place?

@crowdcontrol said in Ascendance of a Bookworm Vol. 7 (Manga) Discussion:

@crowdcontrol I like this manga artists and all myne's facial expression. I plan on buying all the physical english manga from j-novel. I don't think I would be buying the manga of the other artist though that is doing the other part, even if it ended up english translated. That art is just not the same. Its inconsistent quality. Some part it looks good, but most times it looks horrible

I like the artist for part 3, it’s the one doing part 4 I dislike. I hope they let the person doing part 1 & 2 do part 5 though.

From what I have heard the 3rd season will show up Winter 2022 or Spring 2022, we might get lucky with Fall 2021. I expect the season to finish up Part 2. But wonder what other people think?

@quof said in Reinterpretation of Bookworm Beginning (Myne/Urano):

At the end of P1V3 Gunther mentions to Otto that he thinks she was blessed by the gods with knowledge (which thereby changed her).

"The gods must have taught her. Myne's a girl loved by the gods."

How could I not have remembered such a direct statement of the author's intent? 8-) I believe I shall take this literally. 8-)

@paul-nebeling said in IRL Teas inspired by Ascendance of a Bookworm:

@kingcaesarrex Doing a spit take over that price.

Yeah...no.

But I did order some tea samples.

@c-ray it’s too late to call for consistency when you yourself point out that there’s any number of inconsistencies already. I mean, I’m pretty sure the Germanic spelling of Rozemyne herself would actually be Rosemein (but eh, I flunked my German GCSE decades ago and always have to picture “spiegelei” to remember which way around the ‘i’ and the ‘e’ go).

@shiroi-hane that's the viewty of Bewkworm

I think the conclusion I have come to is that, as a newly constructed name, it's pronounced however you want it to be pronounced. You could say I'm responsible for the name's creation, being the one to put the letters together in English for the first time, but it wouldn't be very meaningful for me to try to be like "It's objectively pronounced Ro↑ze ↓myne↑ and anyone who pronounces it otherwise is wrong." Likewise, it's not very meaningful to look to the Japanese, because Japanese names are almost universally pronounced differently from English names, and, for example, you wouldn't really learn much about how to pronounce Lutz or Gunther by looking at Ruttsu or Gyunta. Rozemyne is no different. The anime dub for Season 3 will no doubt have to dub Rozemyne (though of course they will have it written as Rosemain, or Rozemain at best). However, in that case it will be the dub director arbitrarily making a decision. There's no transcendental correctness or truth to the pronunciation that will be given by that - he is, just like me, just another dude.

In which case, I think only one conclusion can be made: There is no pronunciation for Rozemyne beyond what you think it is. It's a made-up name and English has inconsistent pronunciation rules for letters. The author can't give this psuedo-English name an objectively correct pronunciation, I can't give it an objectively correct pronunciation, and the dub director can't give it an objectively correct pronunciation.

A conclusion for Rozemyne's pronunciation can only possibly form through time and trends - through decades of people reading Rozemyne, pronouncing Rozemyne, and so on. I imagine that, much like names IRL, there will be different regions where some people pronounce it one way and other regions where some people pronounce it another way (much like the infamous "New York Mario"), but that's just how it goes. This will be a conclusion founded in oral history, rather than me arbitrarily deciding it must be pronounced one way, or anything arbitrary like that. Of course, I imagine the dub director's decision will have HUGE influence, as people mimic what they hear, but it only become meaningful through the following decades of use, rather than the decision itself.

tl;dr Ask me again in 30 years

@GeorgeMTO said in Telling Time in Ehrenfest:

the map in the books (also linked in the above linked primer) has Ehrenfest duchy adjacent to the Country Border Gate. While the other side of it isn't labelled, if it's not a country it's at least "foreign territory". I guess the fact that mana is necessary for farmland to continue, does mean it could simply be empty territory though.

It could be a floating country and beyond the gate is sky. It could be a dimension of it's own and the gates are like the teleportation circles. With the indications the country as a whole appears to be perfect circle it probably isn't a normal country with typical borders.

@Gamen said in Ascendance of a Bookworm Pt 2 Vol 1 (Manga) Discussion:

And Ferdinand's other attendants with sweat drops, presumably knowing the quarter's reputation.

I couldn't decide on that one myself... it's hard to tell if they are put off because they do actually know or if it's simply the idea of giving a commoner girl the quarters in the first place. I got the impression that the former director's proclivities weren't widely known - largely because someone that values intel the way Ferd does didn't seem to know - but you could very well be right.

In fact, as I'm thinking about it... if I didn't know what the real reason behind what he's doing was, then assuming they are just reacting to a commoner being rewarded in some way would be perfectly natural. It's great camouflage.

Either way, pulling in very subtle bits that we won't know about (if we haven't read the novels) for quite awhile into the scene in a way that pops out to anyone that does know already... just goes to show how well planned the manga is, to say nothing of the actual artwork itself.