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ipad for reading (not just golden-age) comics
Poztron:
--- Quote from: Yoc on July 21, 2013, 07:11:54 PM ---Thanks Poz, but that means wasted bandwidth going up and down if you already had the scan on your PC. Beside annoying it's illogical unless one planned to share it with others.
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Yoc, I don't know about wasted bandwidth one way or the other if something is being transferred within my own home LAN, which scans would be between my Mac and my iPad, whether it was done via Dropbox or iTunes. (I guess they both involve the so-called Cloud - or at least Dropbox does, but my ISP's Internet connection is not metered, so transferring files via WiFi seems to me no more wasted bandwidth than, say, a USB cable transfer would be.)
But the logic at work is that I archive all my downloaded scans from DCM on an external 2 TB HD connected to my Mac and transfer comics I want to read casually to my iPad, as I can then read them seated in an easy chair, instead of staring at the screen of my Mac. Or, I can load up my iPad and with comics for when I go on a trip. I think of comic scans on my iPad as temporary reading material.
Poztron:
--- Quote from: johndesmarais on July 21, 2013, 07:38:03 PM ---
The easiest method I've found to move content in and out of most iPad apps is to use a program called iExplorer (http://www.macroplant.com/downloads.php and download iExplorer version 2 - yes, I know, 3 is available, but you want 2).
Allows you to access the Documents directory of almost any app and drag and files to and fro.
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Thanks for the pointer. I will check that out.
CharlieRock:
I'd require a screen at least as big as a comic book page.
While zoom is nice and I don't mind reading panel-to-panel most of the time, although for younger GAC fans I am reliant on whatever digital method comes around as collecting the paper copies is costly. And sometimes I do zoom up so my screen only holds one panel at a time (and with a 20" desktop monitor this is quite the experience I would recommend everyone try at least once).
However, most GAC books I have read so far come with a pulp-action text story that I have come to enjoy a lot. And the thought of reading one of those (sometimes faded) pages on a small screen does not fill me with thrills.
I would love the portability that reading on a tablet device would bring. And I do own a laptop if ever the need arises for just such an occasion. But here I think the proprietary hardware becomes my issue. My laptop can double as a slide-presenter by plugging into most televisions (for when I show the holiday photos to my relatives in their home, on a 40" screen), and handles a variety of programs I am not able to find in a tablet (yet).
Now, my best friend is a completely different story and found the video on the first page helpful.
Thank you.
Poztron:
--- Quote from: CharlieRock on July 28, 2013, 03:13:33 PM ---I'd require a screen at least as big as a comic book page.
While zoom is nice and I don't mind reading panel-to-panel most of the time, although for younger GAC fans I am reliant on whatever digital method comes around as collecting the paper copies is costly. And sometimes I do zoom up so my screen only holds one panel at a time (and with a 20" desktop monitor this is quite the experience I would recommend everyone try at least once).
However, most GAC books I have read so far come with a pulp-action text story that I have come to enjoy a lot. And the thought of reading one of those (sometimes faded) pages on a small screen does not fill me with thrills.
I would love the portability that reading on a tablet device would bring. And I do own a laptop if ever the need arises for just such an occasion. But here I think the proprietary hardware becomes my issue. My laptop can double as a slide-presenter by plugging into most televisions (for when I show the holiday photos to my relatives in their home, on a 40" screen), and handles a variety of programs I am not able to find in a tablet (yet).
Now, my best friend is a completely different story and found the video on the first page helpful.
Thank you.
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The screen image size on my iPad is 5 3/4" x 7 3/4" and while a typical comic - at least of the early 50's - was 7x10 with an print image size of roughly 6x9, I don't really notice the image shrinkage on the iPad, due to the high resolution display. Depending on how much margin the scanner includes on each page (and I'll admit that I am not a big fan of cropping right to the panel lines), the page image on an iPad is not significantly all that different from an actual comic. [YMMV]
The problem with a tablet with a 7x10 screen is obviously that it would kick the table size up to something akin to 8" x 11" which would be fairly unwieldy for a tablet. (Of course, coming screen technology changes might be able to eliminate much of the "wasted" margins on present tablets in the same way that those margins have been shrinking on smartphones. My recommendation would be to find a friend with an iPad or Samsung Galaxy and put it through its paces. You might be surprised at how readable a comic would be.
Of course, ten years from now, we might be reading scans as real-size holograms projected in the air in front of us. So, such jockeying over image sizes on physical devices might just be a passing phase.
CharlieRock:
5 3/4" x 7 3/4"?
That certainly seems readable for a comic as that is very close to the size of the Japanese mangas.
I think modern comics measure to 6 3/4 x 10 1/4.
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