Why “manga” is being discussed
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A lot of physical manga volumes reduce what would have been originally colour pages in the serialization to B&W anyways. Heck, it's verrry common for that to include the eBook e…
by chocochunks · Sep 30, 2026
Shrug. I've read comics on a 7" eReader, scientific papers on 7.8". Rarely is there a real problem IMO, occasionally color charts are a problem on my B&W reader. I have slightly…
by chocochunks · Sep 30, 2026
I'm not satisfied with a grey scale screen given it doesn't work for 99% of comic books and a significant amount of manga (ghost in the shell, for example, has a large number of…
by xyzsparetimexyz · Sep 30, 2026
Yes, I agree, eink is so close to physical paper. I have shelves of physical manga but eink is close enough to that experience for me.
by seam_carver · Sep 30, 2026
Ever experienced the bug where usb loaded kepub manga disabled bookmarks and annotations? https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc/issues/704
by seam_carver · Sep 30, 2026
Indeed, and my kindle scribe 2022 10.3” 64 GB is bigger than a physical manga volume. I couldn’t imagine using anything smaller
by seam_carver · Sep 30, 2026
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