Japanese Book 国鉄時代の貨物列車を知ろう 昭和40年代の貨物輸送 (Let's learn about freight trains from the JNR era: Freight transportation in the 1960s)

[Darklighter]

Came across this Japanese book about freight trains in the JNR era: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/栗原-景-ebook/dp/B0CBRTRNH2

Does anyone here know this book? Is it useful for modelling purposes?

 

[Martijn Meerts]

I don't know it, but it sure does sound interesting. There are likely a lot of books on Japanese Amazon that are interesting.

 

I tried getting the Kindle version, but seems Amazon Japan is making things a bit difficult o.O

 

[Gunzel]

It looks interesting, but it seems like it probably has a lot of text. It’s similar in page count to this book:

 

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/aw/d/4054069088/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

 

But when looking at the Kindle versions it is only 35MB vs 100MB. And the Kindle preview is mainly text as well. 

 

 

[Darklighter]

2 hours ago, Martijn Meerts said:

I tried getting the Kindle version, but seems Amazon Japan is making things a bit difficult o.O

These links might help: 

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/how-to-buy-japanese-ebooks/

 

 

[Darklighter]

11 minutes ago, Gunzel said:

It looks interesting, but it seems like it probably has a lot of text. It’s similar in page count to this book:

 

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/aw/d/4054069088/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

 

But when looking at the Kindle versions it is only 35MB vs 100MB. And the Kindle preview is mainly text as well. 

Yes, it's more like an .ebup than a .pdf, which is great in my opinion, because you can copy & paste the text easily to an online translator or use tools like Yomichan.

[Martijn Meerts]

2 hours ago, Darklighter said:

These links might help: 

 

 

Ah, thanks.. Might have to look at Honto. Amazon Japan is a bit annoying since I also have a regular Amazon account for Kindle already 🙂