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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
I really, really want a large screen ereader (whats that other word... liseuse?) for graphic novels and manga (and I'll just say it... comic books) and I think we may soon have a blessing of options.
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I think that the graphic novels/manga/comic solution will have to involve color and a touch screen to really work. And that, of course, is where Apple might come out on top with an iTab.
In particular, comics don't work well without color. Graphic novels can, and manga does. But there's an element of motion or perceived interaction or something that makes comics work better in color.
As for a touchscreen, again, comics are the main factor. Comic pages can be riots of nonsequential art, in the sense of reading left to right, ranging in size from a full page panel to several overlapping ones. I think that it lends itself very well to zooming, for instance. Plus, I think a reader has to be able to move back & forth between the whole page and specific panels or sections - gotta be a touch screen. Actually, I can imagine a whole new dimension for comics, manga & graphic novels on a touchscreen. Imagine, for example, a graphic novel in which you would read a person's interior thoughts by touching that person's image. Or being able to drill down into a digression, then return to the original page to continue the storyline.