One problem that got me away from novels for a while was that I’d get ambitious and try to read something that was recommended but really wasn’t for me.

I would recommend to go with series that you liked the anime of and want to know how the story continues. It’s not a 100% surefire way to find something you like, but at least you remove other people’s taste from the equation.

Regardless of style “web novel” and “light novel” aren’t specific to a source country like manga and manwha are.

Both Wikipedia and Wiktionary define them as Japanese. The same goes for the original Reddit community or the database the bot (Myne) gets her info from. I did not take down your comment (it’s still up) but pointed out that it’s the wrong community for that reason. I didn’t do it on a whim.

I’m not categorically against Korean (or Chinese) novels, but they’re by every definition I know simply not “light novels”. I believe that a general book community would be a better place to discuss other translated works. For reference, the place on Reddit to post Korean Webnovels would be r/noveltranslations instead of r/lightnovels.

I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X.

As Myne in the sidebar states: “Y’all better start reading more books!” :)

No idea why

Because they are by definition different things. Close in style, sure, but so are YA novels.

Coming as a reddit refugee I just replicated their definition when creating the community. And I still feel the same way since it’s not a general “novel” community. If there’s a popular demand I’ll loose the restrictions.