BOOK WALKER - Manga & Novels
July 19, 2024
More About BOOK WALKER - Manga & Novels
■V-Scroll Comics (Webtoons)
・Enjoy scrolling through our new V-Scroll Comics lineup, consisting of manga and comics in webtoon (vertical) format (FREE chapters available).
・Popular Titles:"The Devil Is a Part-Timer!!", "Bungo Stray Dogs", "Interspecies Reviewers" and more!
■Manga simultaneous publication (simulpub)
・Read chapters of selected titles (almost) at the same time as they come out in Japan! BOOK☆WALKER provides their users with a selection of simultaneous chapter releases for popular titles with weekly and monthly updates.
・Popular Titles: "So I'm a Spider, So What?", "The Case Study of Vanitas", "Goblin Slayer" and more!
■Audiobooks
・ Listen To Your Favorite Novels with our growing audiobook selection available on the BOOK☆WALKER App.
・Popular Titles: "Solo Leveling", "MONOGATARI", "Sword Art Online" and more!
■Exclusive short stories
・We have a selection of exclusive short stories provided only to BOOK☆WALKER users such as "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Light Novel", "Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World" and many more!
■Unique bonus content & giveaways
・BOOK☆WALKER not only offers users unique purchase bonus items, such as illustrations, but also holds regular giveaway promotions on social media with exclusive prizes, such as author signatures, BOOK☆WALKER coin, and more!
■Special Coin Back, Discount and Free eBook promotions
・BOOK☆WALKER hosts many types of promotions on a weekly basis to help users catch up with the latest series or discover all-time classics.
・New users will get an exclusive 50% Coin Back on their first purchase. (There is no limit to the amount purchased)
・Store-wide promotions will reward a great amount of BOOK☆WALKER coins.
・Theme promotions will help you to discover new series of all genres such as romance, comedy, isekai , fantasy and many more
・Title promotions provide limited-time bonus items to enjoy in the BOOK☆WALKER App.
■Earn coins with every purchase (1 coin = 1 JPY)
・Earn BOOK☆WALKER Coin every time you purchase eBooks during a promotion or based on your Membership Rank! Coins you earn can be used to purchase eBooks.
■Personalize your library
・The BOOK☆WALKER app has been renewed! Now it's easier than ever to create your ideal light novel and manga collection and take it wherever you go.
・Customizable "Cover Images" for your bookshelf
・Bookshelves can now display 1,000 books
・Display series together!
▼Popular Titles▼
"Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation"
"So I'm a Spider, So What?"
"That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime"
"Ascendance of a Bookworm"
"Trapped in a Dating Sims"
"Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro!"
"My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World"
"Overlord"
"Please Put Them On, Takamine-san"
"Classroom of the Elite"
"Disciple of the Lich"
"How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom"
"Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World"
"Der Werwolf: The Annals of Veight"
"Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World"
"I'll Never Send a Selfie Again!!"
"Failure Framer"
"The Eminence in Shadow"
"The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat"
"Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest"
▼References▼
●●Official Website●●
https://global.bookwalker.jp/
●●Social Media ●●
Facebook：https://www.facebook.com/bookwalkerglobal
Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/bookwalker_gl/
●●Term of Use●●
https://global.bookwalker.jp/info-eula/
Latest Version
July 19, 2024
BOOK WALKER
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Android
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User Reviews
Simon Geitlinger
1 year ago
Offers a lot of translated light novels and manga. The reader is good, has a dark mode, and is easy to navigate. Update: usability has definitely improved with the new design. However from time to time the app slows down the whole phone until I close it. After finishing a book there is also still a long load time.
Emanuel Silva
1 year ago
I overall enjoy the app's UI. You can select different background colours when you're reading books, although the background of the rest of the UI is always white. You can also change the font size when reading books, without ruining anything, although you can't change font type, nor make it bold for better reading. My suggestions would be to allow users to change the type of font that is used when reading books. Update: dark mode has been added, hurray!
P. J. Reed
3 years ago
I'm using this on a Boox Nova Air with an e-Ink display, and it basically works, but there are a few problems. It's fairly slow, for one. There's also no way to change the font that it uses in books (other than just making it larger or smaller), and the font it uses does not look very good on an e-Ink display. Since you also can't download unencumbered ePub files, there's no way to read books bought on this service in a different reader. Reading manga works fine, although if you plan to read novels, I would recommend using a different service.
A Google user
5 years ago
This app drains a ton of battery even when it is not actively being used. Everything takes forever to load unless you turn off any data connection on your device then it all loads instantly like it should. Why does my virtual bookshelf have a limit on how many books it can hold? It's just a folder on a computer let me fit an entire series on one shelf.
A Google user
5 years ago
I like the app, more like I like the service. It quite struggling with the app at first but after few updates it become better. Not only that, I can read manga/ln in legal way and reread whenever I want. There are ton of free manga on internet but I want to contribute something to the author as well as the artist that works with them. And I want more bookshelf skin! But make it easier to get.
Shaun Mead
2 years ago
Okay after the update to android in mid August 2022, the text for the in app book reader is so bad it is completely unreadable (missing characters and partially missing characters). It is now Oct 30th and another android update just dropped and the issue is still there. Saying open and read in the browser is completely unacceptable, if you have a issue with your primary function of the app and can't fix it for almost 3 months you have your priorities entirely wrong. Fix your damn app.
François-Xavier Thomas
3 years ago
I can read books, offline, and there seems to be basic integration with Google Translate. Other than this the app is slow and restricts anything else you might want to do with the book (want to copy a few kanji to look up the meaning? too bad!) and more importantly unlike Amazon there's absolutely no way to get the book somewhere else that's more pleasant to read, such as an e-ink reader. I'll probably only use this for books that I can only read on Bookwalker, which thankfully are not many!
diecar128
1 year ago
Clunky lapp Reading is the central function of the app yet I find it more tedious than it should be to do so. because of how the app feels to need to reset the page zoom when I leave the app for even one second, paired with how on smartphone screens manga text can be quite small, it's pretty annoying when the app resets after leaving. App should stay exactly how it was left.
A Google user
6 years ago
4 star for their store and image quality. They have a fairly large selection and the image quality is much nicer than say Amazon 0 star for DRM ebooks. Their ereader is not the best, which is fine. Let us use other ereaders then. I don't mind switching apps when I'm shopping. But having all my books be readable in one place is a must. I regret having ever bought books from them, as I have sense repurchased them just to get rid of the DRM problem.
Caitlin Bonnette
2 years ago
It's great for manga, and when Amazon pulled some light novels I had purchased from their library I was able to rebuy them here. My sole complaint is that there's no option for endless scrolling when reading books. I don't like flipping pages when reading on my phone, and it wouldn't hurt anything to have scrolling as an option for those of us that prefer it.
Sarah Tanguay
1 year ago
Plenty of sales & points are a godsend to get free volumes/chapters. The prices are equivalent or better than Amazon. If there's a problem with a title & you let them know about it, the problem is promptly fixed in a few days with a note thanking you for telling them about it. Release dates for titles are listed up to 3 months ahead. The only thing I'm not liking is that not all manga publishers are on this site, but that's other company distribution rights, unfortunately. Need more phone space!
sirricherd
2 years ago
The pricing and service is great amd the reader works great. HOWEVER the app is absolutely abysmal, the lag is obnoxious, it reloads for 5 seconds or so every time you tab back into the app. Worst of all, the audiobook player is painfully bad, there is no controls outside of the app so if you want to pause you have to open your phone, open the app, wait for it to load, than press the pause.
Ulises Mantilla
4 years ago
Update:I somehow worked out some of the download issues through a a hard reinstall. The app remains a shadow of it former self due to the change of interface. It is nicer to be able to put as many books as you want in one shelf, but the display is blander. A lot of promotional pictures and backgrounds were given out in the past, I used to have them as backgrounds for the shelves. Now they must be awkwardly cropped to use as none of them match the new format. Performance is inconsistent too.
A Google user
6 years ago
the serves is good but the app is poorly designed. Not being able to buy books on the app is a big drawback and having a confusing layout reminds me of what I would have seen in 2006, not 2019. I would recommend the servis for easy access for books with a large variety and there is a variety of customization options. All that is needed is a updated UI and to be able to purchase on the app.
Don Quon (Sixshot)
4 years ago
PRELIMINARY REVIEW: 3-stars At this time, I have found a couple of issues with the app. And it's not limited to Android either, as the issue also affects iOS version. That issue is how it handles numbered bullet lists. On Android, the numbers are cut off at the edge. On iOS, they are completely cut off. In addition to the aforementioned, margin is probably a compounding issue with the aforementioned. They are too thin on both platforms. I am also a bit skeptic on how text formatting is handled but I cannot compare it since I do not own the same title on another e-reading platform. I want to continue using this app. But the aforementioned issues are holding me back from completely abandoning Amazon's Kindle platform. If the devs (or is it the publishers?) can get these issues fixed, I'm leaving it with 3 stars for now.
Malcolm
4 years ago
I was looking for an alternative to Amazon since they've been removing a lot of LNs and manga. Book Walker seems like the safest option as I wouldn't be surprised if Google and Apple follow Amazon's lead soon, but the UI for the app is total trash. It's nearly impossible to navigate it without confusion, the settings are confusing, and they keep the subscription tab despite it being exclusive to japanese titles. I'd like to recommend it and use it myself, yet as it currently stands I can't.
BlaringKnight3
3 years ago
Review prompted by recent app redesign. I like the improved speed, but there is much more white space now. I used to be able to fit 15 or more books on my screen when viewing my list (library, as it is now called). I really liked that, since I have smaller phone. Now i can fit 6, maybe 9 books at once on my screen. Disappointed, hope they add some customizable menus and resizing options to accomodate smaller decices.
Sin No Aria (AI Sin)
2 years ago
Lots of issues due to the constant online checking every time you change apps, tabs, etc. Would be nice if there was an offline mode for power outages (it seems power outages specifically cause your login credentials to expire, which forces you to have to go online to relogin, but during a power outage with no internet...) and when you just want to read. This is an app that really requires you to be in airplane mode when not downloading new books.
Richard Way
1 year ago
I read manga for two reasons. Entertainment and education. For the second, I like to be able to read in original Japanese. There is no filter option for languages on bookwalker. Even switching my account language to Japanese (at least, I assume that's what that was, there was no context to that option) only changed my account settings page and nothing else. It is surprisingly difficult to find untranslated, original Japanese manga available anywhere. I was hoping bookwalker would help. It didn't
Infinity
1 year ago
I like the idea of the app & its super cool that it has a bunch of Mangas & light novels. My complaint is that when you use the mobile version, reading certain mangas & novels are hard because the panels don't load quick enough. I'm still gonna be using the app but maybe not on my phone. I hope you can fix it to where the pages don't take a long time loading when someone is trying to read
