This makes Amazon far easier to navigate for those who feel more comfortable shopping in English.Īgain, the sub-categories on this website are completely in English. Kinokuniya only has their drop down menu’s in Japanese when you are looking at Japanese media. The drop down menu on this website is completely in English. I will be comparing this website with Kinokuniya’s USA online store. I will be focusing on the English option in this review. There is a flag next to the search bar that allows you to change the website to your preferred language. Finding the language option is very easy. Overall, Amazon’s English interface is fairly complete and easy to use. The books I have purchased in this order are:Īnd the total for these 5 books with shipping ended up being 47.04 USD I am really excited to have a greater selection of books to choose from and building up my small library has help to feed my Japanese for gaining literacy in Japanese. Many of these authors are award winning or authors that I have had my eye on for a while. I have been wanting to branch out and buy books from different authors and succeed! Each of the books in this order are from authors that I have never read before.

So I think I can hold off for a year? If my moving plans fall through then I will buy ALL of those hardcover books I’ve been waiting for. I am still trying to hold off on buying those as I have plans to move to Japan next year. I am still having the issue where many of the books that I want to read are hard cover and cost over $20. I mean that price does make sense as I have just made a similar sized order at Kinokuniya earlier in August. I wanted to spend $100 on this amazon order but was only able to spend 47.07. I am really happy that I don’t have to worry about spending so much money on novels as I am now able to shop happily while reaching my savings goals as well.Īnyways, since creating this goal I have spent $98.02(including this .jp order) and now have 10 new novels. I made the goal of staying later at work to make extra cash to pay for this budget and I have succeed already! We are very understaffed so it did not take very long. I’ve given myself a yearly budget of $500 dollars to spend on Japanese novels as that would equal roughly about one book a week where I live.

So I decided to place an order on .jp as well since they did have copies of all of the novels I have been wanting to read lately. There were a lot of things that I liked about Kinokuniya, but there were so many books that I wanted that were out of stock. On my mission to read one Japanese novel per week, I have decided buy some books! A few weeks ago I made an order on Kinokuniya’s USA online store and wrote about my experiences here.

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