The freshly graduated bookworm Urano Mutotsu dies during an earthquake after just getting her dream job of being a librarian, reincarnates into the sickly frail body of a poor commoner girl by the name of Myne.

To her horror upon awakening she finds books only exist for the wealthy, being a poor commoner her dreams of being a librarian was a pipe dream.

She makes it her goal to make it so books were easily obtainable for even the poorest commoner, and decided her first action being creating plant based paper, over the current used animal hide. So with her new friend, Lutz, they rush forward following both of their dreams of being a librarian for Myne and a merchant for Lutz.

This story isn't just about Myne creating books, it's about family and trying to protect what is important to you even if it means having to give up what you love most.

Spoilers Ahead

From Part 3 onwards Myne is no longer alive, having died due to standing up against the arch bishop of the temple. Or so the official story goes as to what Myne's beloved family sadly has tell everyone. The truth is Myne had to say goodbye for good to her loved ones and be forcefully adopted by the archduke, the Aub of Ehrenfest, Slyvester in order to protect them and to help her stay alive due to her magical disease, the devouring.

After being forced to pretend she is a year younger than she is, so to be officially seen as an archnoble's daughter in order to be adopted by the archduke as their daughter going into his family. She now goes by the name Rozemyne, her new story being she was forced to be raised in the temple in order to keep her safe from inter-family problems, now that she has proven her worth and has extremely high mana capacity she is to be adopted into the archduke's family.

So a real Cinderella story is unfolding for the unwilling Rozemyne, who goes through many hardships in life to finally get close to her dream of reuniting with her loved ones and finally getting the library of her dreams.

I started reading a Machine Translation (MTL) of the webnovel around 2016/2017 and fan translations of the manga. I was hooked. I did end up forgetting about it for awhile since the MTL was rough to read and the manga only had so many chapters made at the time. Luckily by the time that I remembered this series the novel had an official translation released up to part 3, the first novel anyhow. So I bought and read all available novels and subscribed to Google Play to get all novels as they released.

It actually took me awhile to watch the anime, I'm taking it slow watching it. It's neat to hear how the characters sound. Although it's a shame how much has to be cut in order to be an anime, but it makes sense.

My favourite character pre-Rozemyne is Benno. He was so fun and I found him charming. I liked how Myne bounced off him. Post-Rozemyne Ferdinand and Hartmut became my favourites. I was surprised how much I ended up liking Ferdinand since he was a lukewarm introduction, and Hartmut was such an odditie that I couldn't but be drawn to him haha.