I started reading in high school at some point. I believe it might have been after bakemonogatari aired, i was readding them on bakatranslations back then. I read some of the monogatari translations, i believe they might have had it broken up in parts because i only remember reading kizu. After that i read some others that didnt get my attention until i read the first SAO. Dont remember if i read it before or after the anime aired, it had to be before or right after because i remember defending the story as a whole to the anime haters at the time. The only other memorable novel i read were high school dxd, which i wasnt telling anyone i read lol.

I dont recall reading much after, i delved into vn at some point though. Then some years later when the first season of slime started airing it immediately got me hooked and I started reading before the season ended. I dont think there were even 4 volumes in english at the time so i jumped to the web novel. So after i did some googles for more isekai novels i came across mushoku tensei, again at the time there werent many english volumes so i had to resort to the webnovels again.

After those two i just never stopped, then it went out of hand when the pandemic hit. Ive now read close to 1000 volumes probably. The last couple years i changes things up and have my epubs played through my book app which makes it almost as good as an audio book. Some times better i would say.