Re:South Korea's booming 'webtoons'
by intertextuality on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:45PM
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If someone did a subscription service for manga with quality translations (and coloring) they'd make a killing, probably.
the 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.
I 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.
Re:South Korea's booming 'webtoons'
by intertextuality on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @02:10AM
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Parent 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.
Re:South Korea's booming 'webtoons'
by slightwinder on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @03:01AM
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Yeah, 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.
Re:South Korea's booming 'webtoons'
by intertextuality on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:51AM
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Do you know if there's an ipad app that easily lets you upload manga via zip files?
Re:South Korea's booming 'webtoons'
by slightwinder on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:39AM
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Sorry, 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.
anecdotally, on a JAL flight between Tokyo and London (for which Russia taxes every passenger individually, story for another time), I saw a bunch of manga on the in-flight entertainment system, and people were actually using it to read. cooler still, seeing both the parents and their children reading different manga.