(Re)Learning Japanese (reading only)

Well I decided I'm going to (re)learn Japanese. However, I only want to be able to read and understand Japanese, I have no current need for writing or speaking Japanese (no doubt I'll still learn it on the way). Reason? Manga, TV and movie subtitles, and video games, mostly for reading. in before "WEEABOO", my automated response to that: "Fuck off."

Current proficiency:

Can read & write Hiragana 100%.
Can read & write Katakana 100%, and decent enough at translating it.
CANNOT read & write Kanji at all, outside of numbers.
Is aware of the difficulty of Japanese grammar, levels of politeness, particles etc... but does not know much about it.

Anyone have any decent Japanese-learning links or download resources (textbooks, audiobooks etc)?

I'm currently going through my old high school textbooks and a Genki Vol.1 e-book. I need a decent hardcopy Japanese dictionary though, know a good one?.

Thanks.

>>26,27
Have some good ideas (suicide?)

I personally picked up a bunch of books at my university's oriental studies department library

Some of the books I took out hadn't been for 20 years but they still worked...

Under windows using the IME hand writing recognition thing will speed up your kanji lookup a lot

If you use firefox I recommend an extension like rikaichan to look up words you draw and those you find online

I didn't find heisig's "remembering the kanji" particularly useful. I liked the graded lessons books and the readers (annotated reading practice) more. Right now I'm using a book by 'Vaccari', "complete course of japanese conversation grammar" edited in 1980, which makes it RAD TO THE MAX

I felt my reading had improved a lot after I had learned the first 500 kanji. I picked a specific area of study to build vocab on which was japanese grammar terms, so I still don't know Japanese for 'kitchen sink' or 'toothbrush', etc. Learning that basic living crap always annoyed me in elementary classes for other languages. Borrowing one(let's be real here) magazine in japanese was worth it too. Also, tons of porn doujin.