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>>581
Rikaichan won't help you read novels because it's a browser plug-in that only works on plain text. Exception: Finding 青空文庫 TXT editions of what you want to read, but >99% of light novels raws are in jpeg format. Of course, if you actually plan on buying physical copies, rikaichan won't do you much good there either. Exception 2: Theoretically, you could OCR the scans, but few OCR programs (if any) can handle vertical text orientation, much less sort out the ruby text.

I dived directly into light novels after realizing that most "intro to japanese grammar" textbooks suck shit. I could get maybe 70-80% of what's going on just by breaking down the sentences and writing down words I didn't know. Anything I couldn't look up, I asked other people (forums/irc), searched Google (figure out by context), or just kept going (it's okay to not know 100.0% of every word you see).

tldr you learn more when outside your comfort zone etc so just go for it.