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Kavita's avatar

Maybe a silly question but what is the English title of the book, is it the Silence?; because on the link you gave on amazon it says: "the Elephant vanishes", but in the PDF it say "the Silence". Not to look anything up because I'm trying to read as much or better said as little as I can by myself. Just to know, the right title of the book. Thank you.

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Bunsuke's avatar

The Amazon title is the title of the book - a collection of short stories. The title on the pdf is the title of the short story that I've selected from the book and that we'll be reading together this week :)

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Kavita's avatar

Thank you for your responding so quickly. I look forward to this challenge, due still very difficult for me.

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Bunsuke's avatar

You can do it! We're all here to help you out if there's something you don't understand.

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Matt's avatar

I assume this books is yours, right? This is kinda off-topic but I have a question to ask.

Is there a website that you would recommend for buying books in japanese? I know I could just search, but since I'm inexperienced with these kinds of websites, I don't know any realiable place to buy from.

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Bunsuke's avatar

I always order from Japanese Amazon. It's reliable and fast, but I'm looking for more ethical alternatives. I'll let you know when I find something good.

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RPD's avatar

Bookoff doesn't send overseas right? Maybe bookoff + some relay company.

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Will's avatar

I'm pretty sure amazon.jp sells internationally.

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Bunsuke's avatar

That's what I always use.

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Matt's avatar

ohh understood. Thanks a lot, man!

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Will's avatar

In order to sentence mine the words I don't know, I would need the document to be in epub format. Would it be possible to get one?

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Bunsuke's avatar

Hi Will, I'm sorry, I don't know how to make an ebup out of this pdf. Having said that, I think you'll get way more out of this if you look up things by hand instead of copy-pasting words into a website that will generate a vocabulary list for you. It's much more arduous, but it pays much bigger dividends in the long run.

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Bunsuke's avatar

P.S. the link to the scan will be disabled in 24 hours from now.

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