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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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Comics and Graphic Novels!
Yes, I'd like an e-reader with a (roughly) letter-sized screen, and full color, in order to enjoy my scores of graphic novels and hundreds of comic books! I'd love to carry around my entire run of manga, superhero comics and compilations, SF, humor, and hardback graphic books, available to me at all times. Not to mention the hundreds of pounds worth of books and comics, and a lot of square footage given to shelves and boxes, gone!
This does mean that I need color.
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But someday...
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Someone after my own heart! This is my dream as well and I have spent an inordinate amount time in the last couple of weeks trying to find a device just for reading comics on. Color isn't totally necessary, but much more preferable. I almost bought the Sony Reader just for this but changed my mind after reading some accounts online of bad experiences trying to do that (I have no interest in the titles Sony is selling, and even less faith they'll put out the iTunes of comics on there). And it's really hard to find people with real experience trying to do that.
For myself, the best device I've found is a Toshiba 3505 Tablet PC, it was a dream. I say "was" because some really cool person broke into my home and stole it one day
Because I lost $1400 on that, my new criteria is that it has to be $350 or less in price (comparable to my 5G iPod, which was also stolen). I've look at and even tried reading comics on the following devices:
-Sony PSP
-portable DVD players (tablet style) 7" and up to 10.1"
-Sony Reader
-Coby 7" PMP w/ 40GB HDD (screen is bad and the experience was a nightmare)
-Archos 604 and AV700 PMP's
That Archos AV700 is a 7" PMP that looks amazing, but if the image browsing is similar to the 604's (which I did manage to try out at Sharper Image), zooming around and needing to zoom out to go to the next image was too much hassle.
Has anyone tried using a PSP or an Archos AV700? If so, what are your thoughts on trying to use it for reading comics?
How about the iLiad for comics?
*sigh* Otherwise I'm afraid that I may have to save up for another Tablet PC to get what I need.