[Terjesk]

I am new to ecomics and wonder what other users here prefer when reading comics, an ordinary laptop/computer or one of these new e-book readers/tablets?  

I am using the ComicRack software to view my comics, it got great reviews and its free and I think it works well, anyone else using this reader?

[boox909]

I am new to ecomics and wonder what other users here prefer when reading comics, an ordinary laptop/computer or one of these new e-book readers/tablets?  

I am using the ComicRack software to view my comics, it got great reviews and its free and I think it works well, anyone else using this reader?

I don't have a reader, but I know some do...but when I read my digital comics I use CDisplayEx.

 That's my commercial moment!

Oh, and enjoy your reset downloads!

B.

[misappear]

IPad and comic zeal app.  Worth every dime

[Terjesk]

Thanks boox909 

misappear, I would also like to buy one of these tablets so I can read the comics more comfortable at night in my bed, but the cheapest Ipad 2 16 GB costs over $700.00 USD and the 64 GB version goes for $1,173.00 USD here in Norway, so I guess I would have to use my "old" laptop for a while...

[misappear]

Understood.  Thing is, the screen size is so critical.  I had a Pandigital Novel, which allowed me to read comics, but I had to do them as jpegs in the pictures folder in order to be able to enlarge the pages and navigate around.  Even with the larger text size in golden and silver age books, reading/viewing a whole page was usually not possible.  Would I pay $700 for my $500 iPad?  Most certainly.  I've also loaded about 600 ebooks and added in a pretty functional word processor.  I may sound like a commercial for the thing, but I gotta tell you it's really nice.  With the ease of use via Calibre for books, my need for a reader for both books and comics could not have been better met. 

[Sunchaser]

It is easy to buy a cheap first version of Ipad... apple followers sell fastly this old version. Comic Zeal must run perfectly on Ipad 1...

[narfstar]

Cheap ten inch ebads are now availble for only $150 my Arnova 10 went from $200 to $150.
They are pretty good to read comics on. When it comes to novels I prefer reading on my phone. I found the size really good. For me it is easier on the eyes because you do not have to use your eyes as much to read across. You can set the font and then you can pretty much just read down. I can read a novel much faster that way.

[NicVinson]

I have an iPad2, what is a good app to put these comics onto and is there an good tutorial to help show me how to upload them to the iPad2?

Thanks

[narfstar]

free app called bookman lite does great for me on my ipad. Comics look good and you can enlarge them when needed and move the image around for easy reading

[macsnafu]

Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I'm still using a laptop (with XP on it) and when I'm not just reading the comics online, I just use the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.  As long as the pages are in order and in the same folder, it'll flip through them just fine.  You can easily adjust the size of the pages if the original size is too small or too big.  And it works with zip files, too, although it can't read the .rar files, so those have to be decompressed first.

I've thought a lot about getting a tablet, but I just haven't made that plunge, yet.  I'll probably get a low-end e-reader first, and then worry about getting a tablet.

[narfstar]

I think most ereaders will read comics.

[macsnafu]

I think most ereaders will read comics.

Maybe, but when I mean low-end, I'm talking about those that use the e-ink technology.  The $79 Kindle, for example.  I don't know how well they do pictures, but even if they do a great job, it's still monochrome, Black and white, or possibly shades of grey, and not in color.