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Originally Posted by athlonkmf
I disagree, actually the resolution is EXACTLY the resolution manga is printed on initially. around 166DPI, newspaperquality.
Granted, 1on1 reading of manga-images is not good because the digital images gets resampled. But if the size is converted correctly, it becomes very readable.
In fact, the size of the reader is exactly as big as a manga-book.<snip>
I do agree that there are a lot of improvements needed for the reader, but I'm very satisfied with it as it is now.
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Glad you're happy with the results. As far I'm concerned, I still stand by what I've written: "The resolution is still not
quite high enough for comic/manga reading,
esp. the text in the "bubble"." (emphasis added)
In other words, I can live with it, but some Manga are still pretty much unreadable. I have tried the various samples in this forum, as well as a couple of my own. The artwork may look OK, but the text-size some scanslation teams picked is so small that it is literally ~5-6 pixel high, and no amount of futzing with sharpening or levels is going to make this legible. Obviously, you can't just change the text-size as with a regular book.
As far as comparing it to print, I have to disagree. First, professional print is not done at 166DPI, it might be 166LPI (Lines Per Inch), a completely different resolution scale used by professional printers.
Second, and most importantly, I'm putting a recent legally purchased Tokyo Pop manga next to the reader, and both are indeed the approx. the same physical size. But the difference is remarkable! Not to mention contrast, but there is tiny text a millimetre high still sharp and legible, which would be a 4 pixel blotch at best on the reader. There are highly detailed screentones pushing the limit of the lineprinters they use, which turn inevitably into mushy shades of grey on the reader. And so forth...
Contrast aside, the artwork, including some of the simpler screentones, doesn't look half bad on the reader with proper filtering and re-sizing, and text is sufficiently large in most scanslations, but it doesn't compare to the real deal... yet. But that is the compromise for "free" mangas.
A higher resolution would help, like the Iliad, but price and size offset that benefit. The Hanlin V9 looks promising, with a 825 * 1200 resolution pretty much double that of the Sony reader.
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http://www.jinke.com.cn/compagesql/E...tail.asp?id=34)
Meanwhile, the Sony Reader will have to do for me.