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.

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    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.