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Originally Posted by radius
Comixology is ok. Cover is the best independent touch app, but isn't free if you want it to maintain your library for you. If you double click on files in the Explorer then it works great for display.
I would stay away from the desktop based ones. Except maybe ComicRack if you are the kind of person that can handle many options and deep software.
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I have Cover installed on my (non-touchscreen) Netbook. From what I've seen the Windows comic apps just seem so primitive options-wise compared to Android. Most don't even seem to be able to auto-crop the borders. Much less something like Perfect Viewer (or ComicRack) for Android that feature a grid interface when reading so that touching the top middle will take you back to your library, touching the bottom middle will bring up thumbnails of all the pages, etc. I've not seen any Windows app that comes close to that.
When my netbook finaly gives up the ghost, I'll likely replace it with a 2-in-1 so I can experience a Windows 10 tablet first hand.
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Originally Posted by radius
Standard comics are mostly pretty close to 3:2 (so a Surface is perfect). On a 4:3 machine you either get small black bars on the side, or a small vertical scroll. Vice versa on the 16:10. For the same diagonal measurement, I think 4:3 works better because you typically care about fitting width more than fitting height (ie: a little vertical scrolling isn't a big deal, but horizontal scrolling is annoying). And the 4:3 will be a little wider for the same diagonal. And if you do fit width and height, then the page won't be any smaller on the 4:3 screen anyways.
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I just know on my 16:10 tablet when fitting for width I usually wind up with letterbox bars across the top and bottom. Since 4:3 screens are wider, I figure the image will fit without those bars, or pretty close anyway. So a similar sized screen would give you a 'larger' image, if only slightly.
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Originally Posted by radius
That said, there are plenty of 4:3 Android tablets now aren't there? And the Pixel C is 1:root(2) which is good too.
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I have a Nook HD+ which is 4:3 and would work great as a comic viewer if the battery weren't shot (a full charge runs out in about twenty minutes).
I also like the Nexus 9 except a) no SD card and b) I can't justify buying another tablet when my current one works just fine.