No fucking way, dude. No fucking way. I'm actually reading 二都物語 on my Kindle. Which I bought from Amazon Japan because they don't have shit on the English stor. And I only had to break two keyboard keys and steal a random 北海道 number and address from Google Maps. Thank god. I can actually use my Kindle now. I'll be honest, I didn't think I'd be able to. I really, seriously thought that for the rest of my life I would be limited only to the shitty selection they have available on the English store. I thought for sure I'd have to actually verify the Japanese address or phone number, but nope. Actually, I shouldn't speak too soon because I still don't know if I'm able to buy things.

And as expected, Amazon doesn't want to take my money. So I guess I'll have to try getting one of those pre-paid cards from Walmart again (Don't know what happened to the last one I had) Fucking pain in the ass but hey, IF this works, that would be huge.

Oh my god I found the pre-paid behind my bed and it appears that the transaction for 完全なるチェス天才ボビー・フィッシャーの生涯 actually went through. And it's actually on my Kindle. And it actually pops up with a dictionary when I press on the words. Now I just need to configure my settings so that the dictionary is first to appear and gives some kind of English hint so I can just read read read. Fuck me.

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