I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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    14 days ago

    I’m super torn between not wanting more Amazon in my life and wanting a convenient way to binge a lot of comics and manga

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          14 days ago

          As another owner of the Kobo Libra Colour, I can recommend it for its excellent ergonomics and UI. Plus as a bonus, it has pen support!

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      I want to read comics but I also don’t want to miss out on that feeling when you turn a page and are greeted with awesome two page spreads.

      Unfortunately no tablet or e-reader can have this functionality.

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        13 days ago

        My Kobo Libra Color does it. I do sometimes need a bit of time to format manga properly but it’s perfectly doable.

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        On my iPad, I use an app called Manga Plus and in landscape I get the two page spreads. I suppose any app that’s supports two-page landscape view would work. But that wouldn’t work well for smaller tablets

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          Of course. However comics have square-ish aspect ratio when it is two pages side by side and rectangular when it is one page.

          No screen can accommodate this change properly, yet. Maybe folding or roll-out displays will manage this someday.

          Like imagine reading this along

          All these interactions arranged in a grid squares

          And then you turn over the page to be greeted by this grotesque monstrosity

          (The comic is The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing)

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        14 days ago

        Normal tablets don’t have e-Ink screens and for reading electrophoretic displays are vastly superior to LED/LCD screens.

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            13 days ago

            They still have much longer battery life and they’re still like reading on paper. Just not in a very high “print” quality when in colour.

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                13 days ago

                For e-readers? It’s fine, if it’s modified heavily enough. The tolino e-reader line (before they just became kobos) used a heavily modified version of Android and they were great devices.