Do you still read Japanese, Chinese and Korean novels after knowing about Scribblehub which provides free stories?

[Eldoria]

Before I discovered Scribblehub, I often read Japanese, Chinese, and Korean novels. But everything changed when I discovered Scribble Hub and similar reading platforms.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Yes, I still read them.

 

[BreadIsACuisine]

Yes, You don't necessarily have to pay.?
Lord of The Mysteries.?

 

[Deleted member 166465]

Before I discovered Scribblehub, I often read Japanese, Chinese, and Korean novels. But everything changed when I discovered Scribble Hub and similar reading platforms.

Why not? I mean I dont read anything latelly, too busy cant live, write and read, not enough time.
But yeah, some time I still read asian stuff.

 

[BigBadBoi]

Yes

 

[SPS4]

Surprisingly no.

I used to read stuff on novel updates all the time. Then there was this one novel that caught my eye that got pushed on novel updates. I think it won a scribble hub writing contest. I pretty much never used novel updates again after that.

I follow a few stories on CHYOA and fiction.live but I haven't read translated work in years.

I might go back and browse what's new one of these days but I doubt I'll actually ever go back to getting most of my literature from translated work ever again.

 

[l8rose]

Yes, because it's hard to find the niche stuff I really like and it's apparently more popular in Chinese and Korean novels.

 

[Azhurie_Mythephan]

I read here, but only when there is a chapter for something I've been reading for a long time. Otherwise, I go to sus Chinese websites.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Yeah, I still read them. I read more eastern novels than western novels.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Why wouldn't I?

 

[Tempokai]

CN, JP, KR stories in NU have higher quality standard than the stories in SH. Because the NU translations are down the stream than the SH stories, it had the time to be vetted by popularity in that language, editors in that language, translators who searched for quality, and only then international readers get it. SH has wild levels of quality, from slop to AI to normal stories, so basically it's a gacha type of situation. If you look at my roasting thread, you can see the difference in qualities lmao. When I don't want to search that much, I read NU instead of SH.

 

[Siegburn]

I highly doubt anyone would abandon Asian novels for a foreign platform.
Don't get me wrong—I'm not badmouthing Western reading sites—but I find it hilarious that you think someone would drop novels like Tanya, Overlord, or Shield Hero Furry (lmao) for some Western novel.
That’s like saying someone would ditch manga and its cousins (manhwa/manhua) for comics just because they're Western. Hahaha

CN, JP, KR stories in NU have higher quality standard than the stories in SH. Because the NU translations are down the stream than the SH stories, it had the time to be vetted by popularity in that language, editors in that language, translators who searched for quality, and only then international readers get it. SH has wild levels of quality, from slop to AI to normal stories, so basically it's a gacha type of situation. If you look at my roasting thread, you can see the difference in qualities lmao. When I don't want to search that much, I read NU instead of SH.

I find it utterly pathetic and ridiculous to say you'll use AI to write a story. Hahaha.
I can believe talentless, pathetic people (which describes pretty much all of Hollywood these days) would use AI for dialogues and characters. Hahaha.
I use AI to fix typos and polish paragraphs – but using AI to write a story? That’s like autotune for wannabe singers: proof you’re a talentless loser. No wonder Asia regulates AI – use it there and they’ll ruin your career. Meanwhile in the US, 'talent' just means seeing how much of a mediocre failure you can be

 

[Tempokai]

I find it utterly pathetic and ridiculous to say you'll use AI to write a story. Hahaha.
I can believe talentless, pathetic people (which describes pretty much all of Hollywood these days) would use AI for dialogues and characters. Hahaha.
I use AI to fix typos and polish paragraphs – but using AI to write a story? That’s like autotune for wannabe singers: proof you’re a talentless loser. No wonder Asia regulates AI – use it there and they’ll ruin your career. Meanwhile in the US, 'talent' just means seeing how much of a mediocre failure you can be

I don't know what you want from me, but I see a lot of projection coming from you. I didn't say a thing about LLMs besides acknowledging them and you've shoved down your fine strawman like a teenager raging about the things you can't control.

It's not me who is pathetic that I'll use The Butler to write a story, it's you who can't reconcile your fine piece of ego that you use The ButlerGPT to write a story without knowing that storytelling is communication of ideas. If the idea is communicated well logically and emotionally, who the fuck cares if it's AI made or not? Clearly not you, ridiculously shoving unrelated idea into the fray, about translated stories.

Those translations can be AI tranlated, but you'll still consume the story because the ideas are communicated well enough to pass the language game between two people. If the story didn't communicate and engagement is lost, it's not the failure of LLM or ideas, it's how author managed to fail to deliver the story. Seeing that you're projecting to my neutral answer, coming from the observation of people like you, it's 100% because you as a storyteller feeling that you're a loser. A pretty big one, trying to justify LLM generated editing, which no one in this thread had talked about. Therefore, your ego is making you a loser, and Asian novels, being whole lot popular that your storytelling is making you angry.

Why? Why you had projected your own damn ego towards the topic no one discussed? If SH being gacha of storytelling doesn't sit well, don't consume it. Go towards the JP stories and eat them well, and don't ever fucking accuse people of doing what you do without knowing whar you're doing it. Peace.

 

[Siegburn]

I don't know what you want from me, but I see a lot of projection coming from you. I didn't say a thing about LLMs besides acknowledging them and you've shoved down your fine strawman like a teenager raging about the things you can't control.

It's not me who is pathetic that I'll use The Butler to write a story, it's you who can't reconcile your fine piece of ego that you use The ButlerGPT to write a story without knowing that storytelling is communication of ideas. If the idea is communicated well logically and emotionally, who the fuck cares if it's AI made or not? Clearly not you, ridiculously shoving unrelated idea into the fray, about translated stories.

Those translations can be AI tranlated, but you'll still consume the story because the ideas are communicated well enough to pass the language game between two people. If the story didn't communicate and engagement is lost, it's not the failure of LLM or ideas, it's how author managed to fail to deliver the story. Seeing that you're projecting to my neutral answer, coming from the observation of people like you, it's 100% because you as a storyteller feeling that you're a loser. A pretty big one, trying to justify LLM generated editing, which no one in this thread had talked about. Therefore, your ego is making you a loser, and Asian novels, being whole lot popular that your storytelling is making you angry.

Why? Why you had projected your own damn ego towards the topic no one discussed? If SH being gacha of storytelling doesn't sit well, don't consume it. Go towards the JP stories and eat them well, and don't ever fucking accuse people of doing what you do without knowing whar you're doing it. Peace.

Man, what the fuck is wrong with you? Did your ass get itchy?

I wasn't talking about you! I was talking about the assholes that use the AI to write, I think the one that projects himself here is you because at no time I talked about you, if you use the AI to write is your problem not mine.

Go hang out with your friends you need to, as they say in the ghettos, “relax your ass you have it stiff”.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Before I discovered Scribblehub, I often read Japanese, Chinese, and Korean novels. But everything changed when I discovered Scribble Hub and similar reading platforms.

Yes, I read way more translated novels then I do novels on SH.

The reason is, for a product to receive a translation it either A: Has enough success to which a publishers thinks it warrants an official translation, or B: Has enough success in its country of origin that a fan translator decides to translate it.

In both of these scenarios I have one additional layer of screening in which low quality and boring stories are filtered out. There is no doubt some really good novels on SH, but finding them isn’t always as easy as sorting by popular. By reading foreign stuff for my free light novel esq fix I have a narrowed selection, I just find it easier to find new stuff I want to read.

 

[Tempokai]

Man, what the fuck is wrong with you? Did your ass get itchy?

I wasn't talking about you! I was talking about the assholes that use the AI to write, I think the one that projects himself here is you because at no time I talked about you, if you use the AI to write is your problem not mine.

Go hang out with your friends you need to, as they say in the ghettos, “relax your ass you have it stiff”.

Then communicate it properly. You've shoved my reply into your rant and didn't elaborate who are you talking to. This "I find it utterly pathetic and ridiculous to say you'll use AI to write a story. Hahaha.", as a first sentence was 100% aimed at me according to the framing, you dimwit. By this sentence, I'm that asshole you're talking about, and that is pissing me off.

If you didn't reply to my post, I'll would've said "haha, yet another pissed off dude who bringed LLM into unrelated thread" and moved on, but your framing as a replier is dumb. No one in this world can read your mind what you intended. I see a clear straw man aimed at me, and I roasted you for that. Or better yet, don't reply in accusatory tone if you don't want to be roasted.

 

[WhaleSprite]

No, still read them. Each one just has a certain feeling or vibe to them that I like. I can't put it into other words. Other stories while I guess similar to them, just feel different.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I haven't had much time for reading. I occasionally listen to audiobooks and there are a few webnovels I follow, but with two part-time jobs, a new puppy, and writing, not much time for reading. Still need to finish The Big Sleep and the rules for Zwiehander that I started reading last year...