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Old 10-18-2016, 10:36 AM   #1
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Amazon Japan releases PW Manga Model
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01FIG3SMC/
storage: 32GB
FW 5.8.5(already released for KT2, Oasis, PW3, PW2, Voyage in Japan)
page turn speed up 33%
and see the following videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kyLVWPC4WU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-41SpJBtqE
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Old 10-18-2016, 10:50 AM   #2
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Do you think it has the same size as PW3? I think the screen of PW is too small for comic.
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Old 10-18-2016, 12:30 PM   #3
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It's exactly the same as the standard PW3 in Japan, it just has increased storage of 32GB (for up to 700 comics), for an extra ¥ 2000.

Edited to add: It also mentions faster page turns, but from the standard PW page it says this 'cartoon page turning speed is 33% up' is delivered in a software update from the end of October.
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Old 10-18-2016, 01:36 PM   #4
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It's exactly the same as the standard PW3 in Japan, it just has increased storage of 32GB (for up to 700 comics), for an extra ¥ 2000.

Edited to add: It also mentions faster page turns, but from the standard PW page it says this 'cartoon page turning speed is 33% up' is delivered in a software update from the end of October.
I wish we could have that storage capacity as well.
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Old 10-18-2016, 03:18 PM   #5
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I wish we could have that storage capacity as well.
So do I, for the Voyage anyway.

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Old 10-18-2016, 03:20 PM   #6
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so the faster page turn is just from a software update? gr8 then
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I wish we could have that storage capacity as well.
The 4GB version of the PW was originally released for the Japanese market and then got rolled out worldwide. Wouldn't surprise me if the same happened with this in a year's time.
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Old 10-18-2016, 06:42 PM   #8
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I pre-ordered mine today. It will arrive at my proxy on release day, the 21st. Then EMS to me here in the US should take a few days. I don't even read manga, but I just had to have a PW3 with 32GB storage!
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Old 10-19-2016, 05:22 AM   #9
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I pre-ordered mine today. It will arrive at my proxy on release day, the 21st. Then EMS to me here in the US should take a few days. I don't even read manga, but I just had to have a PW3 with 32GB storage!
I think a picture of the device info showing the storage is required (if you don't mind)

I wonder how long before we can buy them on eBay
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Old 10-19-2016, 07:37 AM   #10
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I would buy one. Why are the Japanese getting preferential treatment? First with the white, first with the 4GB, first with the 32GB....maybe Japan is the test market.
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I would buy one. Why are the Japanese getting preferential treatment? First with the white, first with the 4GB, first with the 32GB....maybe Japan is the test market.
Because manga is wildly popular over there, and even non-manga stuff is mostly CJK and thus needs circa two to four times as much space.
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Because manga is wildly popular over there, and even non-manga stuff is mostly CJK and thus needs circa two to four times as much space.
Is that really true? Although each character requires more bytes to encode, there are fewer characters than there would be for the equivalent ASCII text. Doesn't it even out?
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Why are the Japanese getting preferential treatment?
Because you would try to fill up that space with the ordinary books instead of huge manga files ;-).

Ordinary Kindle starts having problems after you load up more than a few hundred books. And there are people that would try to upload thousands on the new model and then they would start to complain to customer support and forums and blogs.

Do you think it is going to have support for hierarchical directories and the ability to switch off indexing? I do not think so ... sigh ...
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What problems? I have 1900 books on my Voyage, and no problems at all.
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Because you would try to fill up that space with the ordinary books instead of huge manga files ;-).
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Almost a thousand on my Voyage, no problems.

I really don't need 32GB on a Kindle reader, but I like the idea.
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