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Post #1 Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:55 am 
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The announcement.

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Post #2 Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:15 am 
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Interesting... but since everything is in japanese some of us may need an English tutorial to get it working...

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Post #3 Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:12 am 
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alejo wrote:
Interesting... but since everything is in japanese some of us may need an English tutorial to get it working...


Yeah, I got curious and clicked around for a bit using google translate, found something that had been discounted 100% from 500 to 0 Yen, but didn't manage to get it onto my phone. Are they offering any tsumego books?

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Post #4 Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:19 pm 
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I found the article but I don't see it on Google play yet. I guess they might have region locked it?

Can you find a google play link for it?

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Post #5 Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:39 am 
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Here is the link for the tablet version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... n.ugen_tab

I couldn`t find the google play link for the phone version, but here you have some info:
http://es.appszoom.com/android_applicat ... bvnaq.html

I think they're both region locked.

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Post #6 Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:07 am 
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alejo wrote:
Here is the link for the tablet version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... n.ugen_tab

I couldn`t find the google play link for the phone version, but here you have some info:
http://es.appszoom.com/android_applicat ... bvnaq.html

I think they're both region locked.


The App itself isn't region locked. I installed it on my Nexus today. You do need to have some kind of account though. Scratch that, there's a guest login, though I don't know what the restrictions are if you login as a guest.

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Post #7 Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:23 am 
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Those are links for Yugen no Ma, Japanese wbaduk. That's not e-gobooks unfortunately. I have those already. The funny thing is the tablet version is not region locked but the phone one is. I'm guessing that's a mistake. I use both regularly now.

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Post #8 Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:33 am 
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... obooks_and

Finally found it, and it is region locked. I'll have to workaround that later. I already have a bunch of purchases in the egobooks store that reading on a dedicated app will be better than chrome.

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Post #9 Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:06 pm 
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I got a response from Nihon Kiin E-gobooks that it's intentional, and if you're abroad, you should use the browser based version.

I can't think of any technical reason for this.

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