duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893 
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jul 16, 2013 15:03:48 GMT
How do you prefer reading your manga, hard copy or soft digital??
Are your bookshelves bowing under the weight of hundreds of manga volumes?? Is your Kindle memory bursting at the seams from so many downloaded manga files??
I used to be 100% hard copy manga volumes (600+ on my groaning, over-stuffed Ikea Billy) but since getting my android tablet*, I've started to download and read manga on that as well, especially some of the older series which are no longer in print, or difficult to get.
While I like the physicality of the hard copy (as with all proper books), there's no denying the convenience and immediacy of digital - I can download the manga and be reading it in seconds, and often for cheaper than the hard copy. And space-wise it's a lot more convenient!
So I'm guessing I'm around the 60/40% split, physical to digital.
* I did try reading manga on my andriod phone (HTC Wildfire) originally, but the small screen makes it a real pain to do. The 7" screen on my tab is much closer to the size of a physical manga page.
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Post by Shadowcat on Jul 16, 2013 15:31:44 GMT
I dont really like manga on the ipad/iphone... yet. I might change my oppinion at somepoint but it doesn't really feel "right" for me  But my oppinion on manga is a bit void, I only own about 8 series, most of them are in omnibus format and quite short (Cardcaptors is my longest at 4 omni's) so they dont really take up as much space I do generally prefer omnibus editions over single volumes as I find them easier to read |
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jul 16, 2013 16:44:17 GMT
I do generally prefer omnibus editions over single volumes as I find them easier to read I'm not a fan of the new mega-omnibus editions... Especially the 4-vol ones like the Chobits release of a year or two back. They are just too big and unwieldy out of the house. I do read a lot of manga on my commute (can do an average vol inbound and a vol outbound), so want single vols I can hold comfortably and which don't weigh the bag down too much. Also, how easy/difficult is it to read stuff close to the inner fold without destroying the spine?? |
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Post by Shadowcat on Jul 16, 2013 17:23:21 GMT
I do read a lot of manga on my commute (can do an average vol inbound and a vol outbound), so want single vols I can hold comfortably and which don't weigh the bag down too much. Thankfully I dont have to commute with manga so its pritty easy for me to read while sitting/laying down Also, how easy/difficult is it to read stuff close to the inner fold without destroying the spine?? urgh.. No comment Edited image, but i dont think I should be joking about this... This is REALLY quite bad CAUTION: IMAGE CONTAINS SCENES OF EXTREME IDIOCY i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q698/shadowcat4uk/8FCB4F69-5609-4CC1-8753-12C9A008D52F-16933-000001E192B8FCEE_zps3c6f0a37.jpgDuo's now thinking "oh,, did I REALLY want to lend chaotico some comics" |
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Tahmoh
Newtype
Archetype of Insanity
Broken is no longer serene
Posts: 589
Favorite Anime: Sword art Online, Log Horizon, Accel World, Attack on titan, Oriemo, Ghost in the Shell(stand alone and movies), The World God only Knows.
Favorite Manga: Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan, Claymore, Dance in the Vampire bund, Black God, Kobato.
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Post by Tahmoh on Jul 16, 2013 20:33:34 GMT
Mostly hard copy though i've begun reading some series that dont currently have licences for the west so i picked a mix of both.
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Post by noodle on Jul 16, 2013 21:53:26 GMT
Same here. It's a shame though as I feel like I'm not contributing to the artists. I do buy them when they become available but sometimes it just takes too long.
Noodle.
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Post by Kirei on Jul 20, 2013 8:23:06 GMT
I have a shelf full of hard copies, but there are some things (like Gurren Lagann: Believe) that are VERY difficult to come by in paper form. I use digital for all my scanlations as well, obviously...
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Post by kite on Jul 20, 2013 9:45:04 GMT
I read out of print titles on my tablet, everything else is books
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Amon81
Neko
Posts: 60
Favorite Anime: Ninja Scroll, Devilman, Initial D, Patlabor, GTO.
Favorite Manga: Genshiken, Gunsith Cats, Gantz.
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Post by Amon81 on Aug 13, 2013 11:31:19 GMT
Mix of both for me.
You can't beat the feel of any kind of book in the hand.
I'll read out of print or unlicensed stuff digitally.
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Post by Shadowcat on Oct 13, 2013 16:42:13 GMT
Ok. in a few months I've changed my mind, Digital manga on the Ipad is really nice, I still prefer paper but its going towards digital now |
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Amon81
Neko
Posts: 60
Favorite Anime: Ninja Scroll, Devilman, Initial D, Patlabor, GTO.
Favorite Manga: Genshiken, Gunsith Cats, Gantz.
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Post by Amon81 on Feb 14, 2014 8:36:32 GMT
Digital on the new Nexus 7 is also very nice.
Its also about the same size as reading a manga too.
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