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Post by brutalis on Jan 27, 2017 13:41:11 GMT -5
I actually do enjoy reading comics on my Kindle. While the size of the reader could be just a little bit larger it works very well. Scanned old comics look wonderful with the tears, cuts, stains, creases and such showing in them and i don't have the worry of them falling apart if read too much! Miss the smell though because there is just nothing like old musty comic book wafting through the air.
Also very wonderful having full series which i may never find or afford. All of the Gold Key Star Trek is truly enjoyable. I have a few Kamandi which DC scanned and recolored i can say the Kirby art really does jump off the screen and the colors truly pop. Such clean un-muddied Kirby art is spectacular to view!!! The same is true of the several Batman's i have and the Joker series. Crisp smooth sharp details in backgrounds and foreground with less of the old school muddy one tone colored backgrounds or panels due to limits in color choices and printing choices.
I wouldn't want to have all comics go electronic but i am not against stepping into the future...
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2017 17:28:35 GMT -5
I actually do enjoy reading comics on my Kindle. While the size of the reader could be just a little bit larger it works very well. Scanned old comics look wonderful with the tears, cuts, stains, creases and such showing in them and i don't have the worry of them falling apart if read too much! Miss the smell though because there is just nothing like old musty comic book wafting through the air. Also very wonderful having full series which i may never find or afford. All of the Gold Key Star Trek is truly enjoyable. I have a few Kamandi which DC scanned and recolored i can say the Kirby art really does jump off the screen and the colors truly pop. Such clean un-muddied Kirby art is spectacular to view!!! The same is true of the several Batman's i have and the Joker series. Crisp smooth sharp details in backgrounds and foreground with less of the old school muddy one tone colored backgrounds or panels due to limits in color choices and printing choices. I wouldn't want to have all comics go electronic but i am not against stepping into the future... Yeah, the tech is there so why not use it. What site are you reading the Gold Key Star Treks from ? |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 27, 2017 18:47:56 GMT -5
I'm interested in reading. Not interested in collecting paper.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 27, 2017 19:04:29 GMT -5
Mine is a combo...I love reading but I also love owning the comic and having a physical object in my hands. I regard books as art and appreciate it more when it is in my hands than on a screen is all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 19:41:22 GMT -5
I will always classify myself as a reader first and a collector second.
With a few exceptions, I've been reading comics entirely digital for the past 2 years or so.
It's taken a lot of getting used to, but I went through the same thing when I moved over to reading on Kindle from physical books.
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Post by zilch on Jan 29, 2017 22:23:03 GMT -5
When i was young, i depended on my Mom and Dad to take me to various drugstores around town to get my comics. We had three that were on the way to various functions (shopping, banking, going to garage sales and flea markets, ect). There was always something to buy and i was only limited by my funds.
When i turned sixteen, i earned my driver's license. Now, comic shows and flea markets, and later when they started springing up, comic book shops filled with both new titles and cheap quarter box books swelling my collection. Limited use of the mail-order system got me the occasional book that i could find cheaply (GS X-Men for $2.50? Outrageous! But my original copy lost its cover from overreading...).
College brought me into contact with the computing power and i attempted to use it to create checklists. I was slightly successful, but really used it for my growing D&D habit.
Scoot forward about 20 years and there's this nifty thing called the Internet and i started on a library computer building and reading web pages devoted to comics. Sites like Comic Book Resources and Grand Comic Book Database moved my focus from obtaining books to learning about their history and the people who produced them.
But i still loved reading the stories, and my internet searches lead me to groups of people who shared scans of books i could never hope to own. I then began collecting the scans as eagerly as my younger self did the paper versions.
Now, i use the scanned books to help me with my researches and indexing. I haven't bought a physical copy in three years.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 30, 2017 8:07:33 GMT -5
I actually do enjoy reading comics on my Kindle. While the size of the reader could be just a little bit larger it works very well. Scanned old comics look wonderful with the tears, cuts, stains, creases and such showing in them and i don't have the worry of them falling apart if read too much! Miss the smell though because there is just nothing like old musty comic book wafting through the air. Also very wonderful having full series which i may never find or afford. All of the Gold Key Star Trek is truly enjoyable. I have a few Kamandi which DC scanned and recolored i can say the Kirby art really does jump off the screen and the colors truly pop. Such clean un-muddied Kirby art is spectacular to view!!! The same is true of the several Batman's i have and the Joker series. Crisp smooth sharp details in backgrounds and foreground with less of the old school muddy one tone colored backgrounds or panels due to limits in color choices and printing choices. I wouldn't want to have all comics go electronic but i am not against stepping into the future... Yeah, the tech is there so why not use it. What site are you reading the Gold Key Star Treks from ? Bought the collection from Amazon: Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book CollectionSep 7, 2008 by GIT Corp PC/Mac $ 19.99 Revisit and relive your favourite Star Trek comic books • Includes all issues from 1967 - 2002, including every annual, all articles and advertisements--over 500 issues • All content in printable, user-friendly PDF format • Series include Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine • Issues from all publishers together on one disk for the first time A great buy for tons of reading pleasure! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 30, 2017 8:24:13 GMT -5
I will always classify myself as a reader first and a collector second. With a few exceptions, I've been reading comics entirely digital for the past 2 years or so. It's taken a lot of getting used to, but I went through the same thing when I moved over to reading on Kindle from physical books. I have a few main issues with digital: - I don't trust it. When one 'buys' a digital book, you don't really have anything. The place could vanish tomorrow, or you could have internet issues, etc, and not be able to have access to it any more. Or Marvel could decide to start, say, editing out cigarettes because they're a bad look, or not give you anything that's offensive. If you have the actual book you have it. Sure things can happen to books, but that seems much more in my control. - I don't feel like I'm getting value... you can't by used digital comics in the quarter bin  . Sure, they do sales and bundles and such, but it's not the same. - I look at the computer plenty... and don't always have access to it. I don't want to make something else I do dependent on it without a major benefit. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 30, 2017 8:26:34 GMT -5
I didn't know GIT Corp did things besides Marvel.. cool. I have the Gold Key Star Treks in trade from Checker (most of them, anyway)... got them from a used book store for $3-$5 per trade.. I think I have the first 5.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 30, 2017 10:35:05 GMT -5
Yeah, the tech is there so why not use it. What site are you reading the Gold Key Star Treks from ? Bought the collection from Amazon: Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book CollectionSep 7, 2008 by GIT Corp PC/Mac $ 19.99 Revisit and relive your favourite Star Trek comic books • Includes all issues from 1967 - 2002, including every annual, all articles and advertisements--over 500 issues • All content in printable, user-friendly PDF format • Series include Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine • Issues from all publishers together on one disk for the first time A great buy for tons of reading pleasure! Awesome. I have the GIT collections of Avengers and FF. I love it because you can download it onto your computer while you still have the physical disk. In that way it's like having the comics. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2017 14:11:35 GMT -5
I will always classify myself as a reader first and a collector second. With a few exceptions, I've been reading comics entirely digital for the past 2 years or so. It's taken a lot of getting used to, but I went through the same thing when I moved over to reading on Kindle from physical books. I have a few main issues with digital: - I don't trust it. When one 'buys' a digital book, you don't really have anything. The place could vanish tomorrow, or you could have internet issues, etc, and not be able to have access to it any more. Or Marvel could decide to start, say, editing out cigarettes because they're a bad look, or not give you anything that's offensive. If you have the actual book you have it. Sure things can happen to books, but that seems much more in my control. - I don't feel like I'm getting value... you can't by used digital comics in the quarter bin . Sure, they do sales and bundles and such, but it's not the same. - I look at the computer plenty... and don't always have access to it. I don't want to make something else I do dependent on it without a major benefit. I don't mind digital, but I don't buy individual issues or trades, I only pay for subscription service models. I don't mind paying for access to a library of content I can pick through at my discretion but I am not a fan of buying individual digital copies. If you give me a digital copy when I purchase a physical copy, that's cool, but I don't want to pay for digital access to a single comic, movie, tv episode, etc. SO I will pay for Marvel Unlimited, I have used the digital codes to get digital copies of Marvel books I physically purchased, I was part of Thrillbent for a while, and I read webcomics, but I have never purchased a book or bundle from Comixology or other services like that. I will however, borrow digital copies of stuff my library makes available, as again that is access not an attempt to use a physical economy on a digital illusion mimicking a physical product. I firmly believe if we as a society are going to move to digital content as the norm, the economy surrounding that market has to evolve with it as well. However change scares people and retards that kind of progress in a lot of cases. -M |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 30, 2017 14:15:01 GMT -5
I will always classify myself as a reader first and a collector second. With a few exceptions, I've been reading comics entirely digital for the past 2 years or so. It's taken a lot of getting used to, but I went through the same thing when I moved over to reading on Kindle from physical books.I woudn't be able to do that, either. A book should be a book as far as I'm concerned, not words on a screen. A book should feel and smell like a book, and be able to be handled. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2017 14:18:09 GMT -5
I will always classify myself as a reader first and a collector second. With a few exceptions, I've been reading comics entirely digital for the past 2 years or so. It's taken a lot of getting used to, but I went through the same thing when I moved over to reading on Kindle from physical books.I woudn't be able to do that, either. A book should be a book as far as I'm concerned, not words on a screen. A book should feel and smell like a book, and be able to be handled. Feh, books should be like they used to be...    if you can hold it in your hands, it's not a book but a modern aberration pretending to be a book and you lazy moderns and your small books, a pox on you all... -M |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 30, 2017 14:31:02 GMT -5
I don't mind digital, but I don't buy individual issues or trades, I only pay for subscription service models. I don't mind paying for access to a library of content I can pick through at my discretion but I am not a fan of buying individual digital copies. If you give me a digital copy when I purchase a physical copy, that's cool, but I don't want to pay for digital access to a single comic, movie, tv episode, etc. SO I will pay for Marvel Unlimited, I have used the digital codes to get digital copies of Marvel books I physically purchased, I was part of Thrillbent for a while, and I read webcomics, but I have never purchased a book or bundle from Comixology or other services like that. I will however, borrow digital copies of stuff my library makes available, as again that is access not an attempt to use a physical economy on a digital illusion mimicking a physical product. I firmly believe if we as a society are going to move to digital content as the norm, the economy surrounding that market has to evolve with it as well. However change scares people and retards that kind of progress in a lot of cases. -M Yeah, I've thought about Marvel unlimited...as you say, it's alot like Netflix/Prime for comics, you pay a monthly fee to access their library. I just don't think I'd use it enough to justify the cost. I may yet at some point. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 30, 2017 17:47:44 GMT -5
I rarely buy floppies - maybe if there are no adds and I want to check out an issue before deciding if I'll continue reading it. But I agree that the reader doesn't seem to get much story per issue with modern comics, so that's a disincentive for me.
I'm even starting to find the trade collections a little light in terms of content: Often I find I need 2 or 3 collections to feel I'm getting into the story. I read the 1st of the Lemire Moon Knight collections a couple weeks ago and was pretty disappointed - partly because of Lemire's approach to the character, but also because after 6 issues, or whatever was in that book, it still felt like the story had gone nowhere. Not sure I'll continue with that one.
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. Sure, they do sales and bundles and such, but it's not the same.
