Why don't you own an E-reader yet, Yea Forums? You can get a last gen paperwhite second-hand for 50 bucks these days, and 300 ppi is perfectly fine for manga. LNs look great too.
Why don't you own an E-reader yet, Yea Forums? You can get a last gen paperwhite second-hand for 50 bucks these days...
Kayden Bailey
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Xavier Richardson
Because I own a cellphone.
Michael Gonzalez
Because I own a smartphone and a computer
Benjamin Myers
You guys seriously read manga on a 5 inch phone screen? I think I'd throw up if I tried to do that shit.
If you've got an IPS portrait display or something, I guess you can make do with a monitor, but it's still not great.
Jose Parker
I've wanted one for a while, but I've just never gotten around to researching what would be the best fit for me.
Ryan Ross
Ereader sceens are 6 inches and less sharp.
Carson Powell
Because I own an 10 inch tablet, which actually lets me see volume covers and color pages
Zachary Watson
I have a first generation ipad that I got for free. an e-reader would be nice, but I'd definitely want a 10 inch screen
Isaac Foster
I told myself I wouldn't buy an e-ink ereader until they released a color one. That was around 11 years ago.
I continue to see next to zero value in black and white eink devices when most of what I read are magazines.
Carter Torres
My phone has a 5.5 inch screen, and it's literally only as tall as the one on my e-reader. The difference is that my e-reader is way wider.
300 ppi is as clear as you're going to be able to resolve from the distance you're using a display like this anyway.
Color is a gimmick, but if you want to read magazines e-readers are a terrible choice anyway, they're not meant for an A4 format.
Dominic Torres
I've stood next to Super A1 color e-ink. The technology works fine and is perfectly suited to that and any other formats.
They simply won't bring it to market. Their choice, but so is it my choice to not patronize them because of that.
Owen Gomez
Because I own a tv with a computer link to it.
+ I only read it on my phone in the bus anyway, and I don't care if I can the perfect pixel on a scan anyway. After all I read old mangas that have colored pages so why should I spend 50 boxes in a tool that will not even have a use as a door blocker ?
Wyatt Jenkins
For anything you need color for, you're better off with just an LCD tablet anyway. Faster refresh. There's just no market for color e-ink, because the majority of applications are for black and white print.
Even at the larger A4 size, the applications are people who need to look at PDFs on the go, not read magazines. And those medical and research PDFs are all designed for black and white so they can be faxed and printed cheaply.
Carter Robinson
they're ugly
Evan Garcia
6" is on the small side. I really wanted one of the 7 or 8" Kobos for a while, but they fucked up by ditching the SD slot on newer models, which makes a huge difference in manga capacity.
Daniel Myers
At least the latest 8-incher has a 32GB version, which is more practical than 8GB. Still wish it had that slot though.
Evan Murphy
I don't really have an issue with 6" for raw manga. It's basically the difference between holding the book an inch or two further away, everything is perfectly legible.
In an ideal world, maybe I'd have something bigger for more breathing room, but the price goes up exponentially. I'd rather just hold it slightly closer.
Chase Gutierrez
Owen Bennett
>6" is on the small side. I really wanted one of the 7 or 8" Kobos for a while, but they fucked up by ditching the SD slot on newer models, which makes a huge difference in manga capacity.
Get a Likebook Mars like me
>Why?
Full play store, can put any app (even pleb manga streaming apps)
Big battery (3100mah)
microSD slot
Good screen size 7.8"
Cold and warm light
Ethan Phillips
Also webm not mine
I'm not retarded I set my Comic Screen app to turn pages left to right
Ryan Sanchez
6" felt small to me when I last tried it, but e-ink sharpness has improved since then (170 -> 300 ppi), so maybe it's more workable now.
Dylan Smith
170 would be straight up unusable, but 300 is fine. Amazon released a manga edition of the old paperwhite in Japan with 32gb of storage years ago, I've got no complaints with my 4gb model because cycling shit out is easy enough.
Asher Phillips
Because e-readers can't display color. I have a 10" tablet instead.
Daniel Watson
I used to do this. It was kind a neat gimmick. But, desu, the screen isn't quite big enough a lot of the times. And when I looked for bigger kindles I saw they abandoned the paper-like surface to make generic iPad ripoffs instead
Adam Perry
they're laggy as fuck
Alexander Carter
Kindles are made for real reading. Manga isn't reading.
Jonathan Clark
Hello, speed reader.
Landon Ross
Yeesh, is that really what eink looks like when turning pages? Do you get used to it quickly or something?
Cameron Miller
>s-slow page turning and laggy ui is suppose to be immersive!
okay grandpa
Elijah Ramirez
These are the trade-offs you make for a display that looks like ink on paper.
Lincoln Moore
Dat bezel tho. I'm not sure I dig the real-book aesthetic they were going for, but it's an interesting choice.
Samuel Edwards
I can't see why anyone wouldn't choose these e-readers when there are enough cheap 10' tablets that look fine.
Connor Price
for me it's mainly battery life. On a single charge I can read on this thing for 2 weeks to over a month, depending on how much I use it.
Jayden Carter
Well it's because of this, Also e-readers help in just focusing on books and nothing else to distract you. I can't shit post on an e-reader.
Benjamin Kelly
My nigga.
Jeremiah Russell
>Yeesh, is that really what eink looks like when turning pages? Do you get used to it quickly or something?
The guy set it to refresh whole screen every page
You can avoid it but sometimes get ghosting
Camden Thompson
>but sometimes get ghosting
Oh, so that's what it is...
Ayden Williams
Likebook Mars
Gabriel Brooks
>that font size
What are you, a casual?
Caleb Ramirez
>I can read on this thing for 2 weeks to over a month
Unless you go camping and such I can't see a regular need for such a long battery life.
I can read manga and watch anime on the tablet for hours and I've rarely seen the battery drop below 60%. I imagine it'd have a few day's worth in it if I tried. I assume games are the sort of thing that drain people's battery, not manga.
Also I never really saw the benefit of it looking like ink. There are some manga I own the physical copy of and ended up reading it on the tablet.
Cameron Smith
I use e-reader to not hurt my eyes. If I didn't care I'd just use scans.
David Watson
>I can't see a regular need for such a long battery life
Probably because you were born after 1990 and don't remember when we used to charge our phones once a week
Blake Mitchell
>I can't see a regular need for such a long battery life
I never leave the house, and having an E-reader I only have to charge once every few weeks is a fucking dream compared to my phone, which needs to be plugged in every few days even if I haven't touched it.
Charge cycles kill batteries, so leaving your shit plugged in forever isn't an option either. Ideally, we'd have devices with removable batteries, but that technology has been lost forever because electronics are considered disposable now.
Nathaniel Jenkins
I'm 31, that doesn't mean I want to treat life like I used to.
Do you set your download cap to 20kb/s to recreate the good old days as well?
Ethan Smith
You are retarded
Long battery life = good thing
Slow internet = bad thing
Jesus Christ
Asher Stewart
Do you read in "reader" mode or what? Because blue light fucks your eyes
Samuel Ramirez
My tablet can last a month if I never use it too.
Daniel Mitchell
I've once not used it for a little over 3 months and the battery was at around 20% I believe.
Sebastian Taylor
That refresh looks annoying
Angel Jones
>That refresh looks annoying
while true,
in real life you don't turn page 3 times a second like a maniac
a good art manga page can be on your screen 10 to 20 seconds depending on amount of text and detail you want to look at
Andrew Nelson
Don't do that.
I bought one and now i spent more time reading books than manga and playing video games.
Carter Scott
Subtle
Charles Martin
Yeah, I have a Kindle DX and it's shit storage is the (main) reason I don't read manga on it.
Ayden Thomas
Because tablets are now like 200 bucks and can do a lot more than just read books.
Joseph Jones
My computer, my TV, my phone, and a bunch of other stuff I use can do all those things. E-ink displays are amazing for my eyes and have completely removed headaches from my life.
Nathaniel Rogers
Tablets are trash for literally everything. Need to check twitter on the shitter? A phone is better suited. Want something with a big screen? A monitor is better. Want a computer on the go? Laptops have been around for years.
E-readers do one thing, but they do that one thing WELL. It's why I still own a fucking dedicated MP3 player, because the battery in it will last a month instead of my phone that dies in a day.
Jack King
>paying 199 for a reader when I already have a tablet, a PC and a laptop.
No thanks. Studying is easier with a computer
Carson Richardson
The Unix way
Lucas Jackson
holy fuck you gatekeeping cucks chill
Jeremiah Wood
>gatekeeping is bad
Adam Perry
>gatekeeping
>cucks
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