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lol apart from that she seems to have a few issues your "mom" seems to be pretty cool to actually want to read manga. My mom doesn't even know what a manga is xD
Lol yea, she'd be a pretty cool parent... well, if only she was like 10 or so years younger. @.@ now I can only listen to stories and dream "if only"... But at least she seems to have the basic interest back in her now! To think she used to collect them back in high school too... and Ouke no Monshou at that, a complete shoujo smut romance! -sigh- she's a puzzle.
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I don't understand the problem with upper case letters. Can you please explain this?
You see, normal books and well, any text really, utilizes both upper and lower cases. As for my mom, she doesn't read English either ways. She knows just enough to get by everyday life with the help of me and her friend who knows English. So she can't seem to get used to the idea of READING EVERYTHING IN CAPITALS. You get the idea. I think I had a little problem with it too when I just started reading mangas, but it never bothered me as much as her. I just kinda got used to it before I knew it I suppose. I mean, you see ppl shouting these days, all caps, but she only just got back to using tech stuff after what? 30 years? So yea... she can't seem to figure out how it works and gave up after two pages...
So I'm seeing if I can find something without the all-caps. There are some, I know there are. Just now a lot, and most likely have poor quality and poor grammar. Can't care too much about it now though.
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as far as ebooks go, have you guys tried going to project gutenberg[/url]. All the books there are free to download. It's all nice and legal too.
Sorry, as far as that goes, I'm probably gonna keep off of that. Yes, legal is a problem too. Not cause it's wrong, but it's too confusing and I don't want her to pick up the wrong habits. No confidence that she has enough knowledge to work individually on that. If by any chance she gets the idea that she can find many many pirate sites by searching in Chinese, I'm in trouble. Just like romance grosses her out, Simplified Chinese grosses me out probably even more.
And, I only just got her barely hooked onto Apple stuff, the official ones... I don't want her offtrack again.
Basic story, I'm trying to monopoly her digital knowledge to fit my desires lol! I did it with my brother too... well, it ended up half-successful? I'm confident to do it well this time now that I'm old enough!
Last edited by renseih at 4:34 pm, May 13 2013
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