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Good beginners' book
This is a very nice begginers' book. Sentences are simple, and most the stories (all short, 1 to 2 pages long) are pretty entertaining for the length of them. It's very helpful for self-study as it has translations, vocab list, and a small quiz with answers at the end of each story.
I liked that it had furigana, however this is also my gripe with it. I feel like the furigana should have been better used only the first time a word was introduced, or only on the first story it appeared at, and not in ALL the kanji, to help force people to look and remember the kanji. At least for common words for N4 and N5 (since there were a handful of harder vocab in a couple stories).
Also, I don't know if it was just my copy, but the furigana was a bit all over the place. In the titles it had been displaced so it was printed almost all the way ON TOP of the kanji, making it impossible to read the furigana, and about a handful of kanji were missing furigana completely in the stories- which was clearly a mistake as everything else had it. It wasn't too many, and as there was furigana elsewhere it wasn't a big deal, but it was still bothersome to find the inconsistency.