On your PC? On an e-reader? Physical?
I'd like to get into reading manga again but I also don't really like reading it on the PC. I'd really like physical copies but of course its expensive as hell.
How do you y'all do it?
Edit: If anyone knows good places online to "aquire" english manga ebooks I'd love the recommendations too. Or good android apps to read them.
Edit2: A poster in another thread reminded me that public libraries carry a lot of it sometimes. Really good advice.
I shill for the Tachiyomi app, if you have an Android. Tell it which website you like (they're not all piracy-related) and it can automatically download new chapters as they come out, which is great for me because 90% of my manga reading happens when I don't have a signal.
Def gonna check this out I have an old kindle fire tablet I never use.
also there is 4 panel yonkoma format with 8 panels on a page mostly used by slice of life or comedies
second story first story 5 1 6 2 7 3 8 4
I read it on manga piracy sites, more than one because they'll have different titles faster, sometimes better formats in one over the other, and any one could get taken down at any moment. try a few manga sites first before totally dismissing them, they often have lots of customizable options. Although obviously physical is usually better, but often way more expensive and potentially much slower. Piracy is the only way I get the newest chapters of Jojolion the minute someone scanlates them, for example.
I read on an ipad on the website mangasee . My ipad screen is about the same size as a manga volume so it works out pretty well. I agree that reading physical copies is better but like others have said the cost adds up and I'd rather save my limited shelf space for history books and the like.
I buy physical copies. they're not that expensive, it's like £6 per volume, so sure if you're buying like 10 volumes at once it's a lot, but I tend to only by a few every couple of months
I started browsing different places and you're right. I did find a lot of used copies for like 6-10 dollars. I had just been checking ebay where it seems more expensive than used book websites.
I bought a cheap, dedicated android tablet specifically so I could use it to read manga, among other things. Tachiyomi, using the MangaDex, MangaSee, and Shonen Jump by Shueisha liberaries, then I pick and choose based on frequency of updates and availability. I schedule the app to refresh and check for updates twice a day, and I can even program it to download chapters and store them on the device for offline reading as soon as they're available in addition to the normal ad-hoc streaming of chapters. I do not care about piracy, overseas licensing accounts for next to nothing of manga publisher income, and pirated unofficial scanlations target a "market" that would not otherwise contribute to domestic Japanese sales (If a manga is only available in Japanese, foreign non-Japanese readers aren't gonna buy it anyway, so there would be no sale regardless). If I feel particularly invested in a work I'll buy merch like figures, clothes, accessories, artbooks, etc, and follow the artists on the bird site.
Best one I've found is tachiyomi. The app lets you pull manga from nearly any source: mangadex, dynasty scans, ect. Huge amount of features and customization, I also use it to read webtoons and other non manga things because it has that amount of versatility. I would highly recommend installing f-droid as well to keep it up to date automatically.
I made a script that downloads it from a website. Then I read it on a tablet and keep a backup on PC
ive always used mcomix but reading manga is prety weird if you want to read it showing the full page i think some manga that was converted to digital form makes the spread layout fucked im esl so i dont really know how to describe it
Don't you have to like... zoom in and keep panning to read everything? Trying to find a way to fight with the medium as little as possible without buying hundreds of dollars in books.
No, i dont have such problems usually, you can check yourself if you would have such problems on your smartphone
Interesting, thanks my dude. Maybe my assumptions of how annoying it is to read electronically is wrong.
I usually pirate most of my manga and read it on PC. Sometimes I buy a physical copy of a manga, but that's only if the series has very few volumes (my limit is under 10) and the plot is interesting enough for me. I'll be honest, I focus better when it comes to reading any type of book when it's a physical copy.
