This review is for Aozora Bunko's Hayawakari (free library system). I would recommend it for all levels of learners. All the books are in HTML and browser friendly scripts. There is additional software that can help you to read it like a book if you want.
What
This is a giant online library of free books in Japanese words as HTML text. Basically it's archive.org for Japanese books, which if you know any Japanese copyright lore, you know that this is basically over 9000 levels of difficulty. When you get into the books, you can use an onscreen reader or download the file to read the work. Many are translations of older works, but for our purposes it works and is a useful resource for finding puzzling or new or perhaps even relatable work in the Japanese public domain.
The site is organised like a public library with a database, so you can search for an author, work or book by its title in the Kana order A to N. After that, the database is your oyster.
Where
Online at https://www.aozora.gr.jp/guide/aozora_bunko_hayawakari.html
Who
Aozora belongs to its presumable creators Noguchi Eiji and Noriko Miyagawa.
These all have many, many people involved in these projects whom I would love to highlight if they wish to be.
When
Available if you have internet.
Began in 1999 and is currently active.
Why
Becuase it may occur to you that physical books are also available, I would say yes that is brilliant, but do you really want to be lugging around something the size of a library anytime you want to break out a Japanese text and start using to practice your reading skills? No. Thankyou very much.
So with that in mind, try to focus on the fact that you are simply utilising the resource to practice your reading skills, literacy and vocabulary expansion. Not to mention Kanji practice which combined with the tools digital media brings, it is a massive bonus that we can have texts freely available to use like this.
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This review is part of the Learn Japanese for free project. I have, do not and never will derive any profit from this project. Please send any requests, questions or further information about free tools for learning Japanese to learnjapanese43@gmail.com which is checked totally sporadically becuase the originator is perezoso.
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