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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I find this argument (it's not the same experience) more valid for comic books. Most books are just words, and for me the paper doesn't bring any added value, though I know opinions may differ.
On the other hand, comic books are pictures, and a comic book page is conceived as a whole, not just as a succession of individual frames. When reading a comic book, the eye and brain keep switching between whole-page view and detailed frame view. This experience cannot be replicated on a screen that is smaller than the page, although I'm sure the iPad 3 Retina screen does improve the experience.
The Comixology app, for example (it's the only one I really know) allows you to view the whole page, then move from one frame to the next, then view the whole page again before you move to the next page. It works, but it's only an approximation of the real experience, and it forces you to go through a specific frame order. And while you are reading the individual frames, you can't see the whole page.
So I agree that the experience is different, and you do lose something in the translation to screen. It's even worse with European comics, which have a larger format than the American ones.
I don't read a lot of comics and I am reluctant to buy paper books, so I'm happy with the iPad experience, but I can understand people who prefer paper in this case.
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Why would you read frame by frame? That's not the way you'd read a deadtree comic, why would you do so with digital ones?
There are apps would let you read the comics as they were intended too.
Double page spread. (this is a compressed and resized screenshot from the new ipad from the app ComicGlass. Compressed and resized, because there's no affordable monitor which could reflect the sharpness of the new iPad anyway. )
And with the new iPad, the artwork and letters are sharper than the print version. It's a great experience.
(and really, if someone can't read from an iPad screen due to bad vision, he'd have a hard time reading from a print version too...)