Thread: ereader for mangas (6" ok?)
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Old 12-10-2011, 12:44 PM   #25
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Device: amazon kindle DXG
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Originally Posted by ProDigit View Post
doesn't exist,
however, Ectaco Jetbook Color will be the ace reader for pdf and comic books, next to the kindle DX (which might be the largest reader in size).

The issue lies not with screen size, the issue lies with resolution.
At a resolution of 800x600 pixels, on a 6 or 7" reader device, you can barely read most PDF's and comic books in landscape mode ( on the PRS505 that means you can only see half a page per page flip).

At portrait mode (full screen) you can see the images pretty ok, but reading the text is difficult, if not, impossible.

There are comic books optimized for small screens, but they require you to pageflip almost constantly. By the time you finished the pageflip, you have to press again, because it takes time to load the next page, and generally there's not much info on it.
Most comic books I find online, are optimized for a minimum resolution of 1024x768; 1280x800 is even better!

Judging from that, I'd say that the smallest e-reader to comfortably read most CBR/CBZ/PDF files on, will be the Jetbook Color (sold for $499 starting January 2012), or the Kindle DX (you can still find them for $300).

The problem with the kindle DX is file formats. It does not read CBR/CBZ, but does support Kindle (AZW) and PDF format.
Kindle DXG can read .zip and .cbz files. All you have to is to rename a .cbz file to .zip and throw it in the documents folder. As most of you already know cbr cbz files are just rar or zip compressed picture files. Kindle can read .zip files natively so no extra step is needed for them. For .cbr or .rar files you can extract the pictures and throw them into documents in a folder or zip them.

I personally use a image processor program called "canti" as it dithers images better than kindle and resizes pictures for the kindle resolution (1280 825) to max what is viewed in full screen.
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