My little brother has gotten me reading manga.
I'm mostly using the Shonen Jump app (which is a surprisingly good deal) but I don't have a good tablet at the moment, so I'm on my phone.
The original run on dragon ball was easy to read on my phone.
So far, Super is not.
(By "locally" I mean "within 60 miles"
No bookstore, no big box store, no collectibles store within 60 miles of my home had volumes 3 or 4 in stock.)
So, uhh...
Good android tablets for reading comics?
Good places to buy manga?
I guess I'll just have to wait until they're in stock at #hemlockbazaar??
I probably have a spare 10" tablet at the makerspace.
It's probably hot garbage, but it'll read books until I can get them ordered for the shop.
I decided I'd get my manga from my bookstore ( #HemlockBazaar) which means I'm waiting a few days for the next issue of dragon ball super.
In the meantime, I've started reading Doctor Slump on the Shonen Jump app, and Red Cat Ramen in the Manga+ app.
I'm not enjoying Dr Slump as much as I hoped I would. It's just harder to follow, and significantly less is happening plot-wise.
It feels more like a newspaper strip than a comic (and I guess it is in many ways!)
@djsundog @ajroach42 iPad screens changed my life with digital comics.
If you do use the iPad, Readdle Documents is great for pulling in pdf comics from whatever network store you have, and reading. cbz/cbr is awkward, I'm using Chunky but it's kinda crap at networking. Both are free.
I miss when Comixology was indie and good, now it's a fucking zon portal.
@ajroach42 was gonna mention these. i have one, it’s very very cool for all the obvious reasons, but it’s worth noting that the color:
a. gets dithered in a way that leaves it with a quality akin to reading the sunday funnies. it is perfectly serviceable, but it’s nothing like an lcd or oled. and
b. is fiddly. like, you have to fiddle with it. because normal content is out of gamut for it or w/e, you have settings you’ll need to adjust based on the content to really dial it in.
Have you tried your local library? Which honestly may be something of a crapshoot, and you might have to wait for it, but a lot of libraries have a surprising amount of manga nowadays.
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