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If someone did a subscription service for manga with quality translations (and coloring) they'd make a killing, probably.
by intertextuality 7y ago
If someone did a subscription service for manga with quality translations (and coloring) they'd make a killing, probably.
- kmlx 7y agothe problem is the medium: manga are just not made for digital consumption. they’re brilliant for analog thou. i’ve tried a couple of these services, but they were quite subpar.
- laurus 7y agoI don't see how reading manga on an E-ink ereader, with one page filling the screen and "turning" pages by pressing the right side, is fundamentally different from reading it in "analog" (paper) form. I wouldn't want to read it on a non E-ink screen, or have to scroll within a single page though.
- intertextuality 7y agoParent probably was referring to reading it on a laptop or similar, which many people do. (I also read it this way). I use the SimpleComic reader on OSX, first removing the menu and then fullscreening it. This requires me to download the manga beforehand. It works for me since I don't read that much manga. Now that I have an ipad I wonder how well it could work.
- slightwinder 7y agoYeah, that's not true at all. Manga on a 8-10 inch-tablet can be far superiour to the poor paper manga are usually sold at. Though it's true that it also depends on the reading-app/service.
- intertextuality 7y agoDo you know if there's an ipad app that easily lets you upload manga via zip files?
- slightwinder 7y agoSorry, I 'don't use iOS. I have an Android-Tablet. But short search says "Manga Storm CBR" is according to your demand. Search for cbr, which is the common fileformat for comic-archives. You can also widen the search and search for comic-apps or reader-apps in general. Manga seems to be often a bit to specific in those cases.