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reader for manga and books
hello everybody!
this is my fist post here and i have never owned, seen or used any ebook reader. i have been thinking about buying an ebook reader for some time and i started to read the specifications and information about several models. the main application for me would be to read manga (jpg or png) and of course ebooks (pdf). until now the sony 505 seems to be the best choice. i tried to downsize manga pages to 800x600 and decreasing the color depth to 8, in my opinion 4 colors is too low. of course it would be much more comfortable if the resolution was higher too. i'm kind of confused about the new sony 700, because in some news sources they talk about it only having 4 colors. but i think it's too expensive anyway. plus i don't need a touch screen. it would be nice if someone could share his/her opinions and experience about reading manga on ebook readers. i still have some doubts and questions:
thank you very much for your help! brookman |
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Don't use PDF if you can possibly help it. PDF was never designed to be an eBook format, and it's not very good at all for the task. The problem is that most PDFs are formatted for an A4 or US Letter page, and there's just no good way to display them on a device with a screen 1/6th the area of A4.
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There's already several tools capable of creating a PDF or ePub manga for the PRS-505, and they all handle things such as resizing the page, conversion to 8 colors etc... Honestly, reading a manga on the 505 is a nice experience and you don't have to wait that much for the next page to be displayed. Scaling down the image is necessary, changing the color depth is not. If you're in switzerland, now that the 505 is available in the UK it might be a better deal than from the US. |
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You really don't need to turn down the number of colors for the 505. Just going to 256 gray scale and letting the 505 do the dithering works quite well. The dithering routine(s) in the 505 do a very nice job with the 8 native shades.
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thanks for your answers and advices!
it would be cool, if somebody could give me a link to an example how a converted manga in a pdf for sony 505 looks like. i have been looking around and found the device at amazon for about 280$. what do you think? do you know a cheaper offer? |
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BHPhotovideo.com ships to Europe and their price is USD275. You can also get the lightwedge (light cover) from them at the same time.
I'm also at the point of almost getting the 505 subject to a few more details and availability on the 700. I really hope that calibre will support the 700 but that's an unknown right now. |
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I'd take some pics to show you once I finish work later. |
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do you think something like that is readable? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last edited by brookman; 10-06-2008 at 10:37 AM. |
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Some pictures taken from my PRS-505 ... my room is kind of dim, so the image might be somewhat dark.
Conversion was done using comic2lrf, which is part of calibre. I might try with your images later, but it's pretty late now. Last edited by joewandy; 10-06-2008 at 01:24 PM. |
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I read manga on my iLiad. The screen is a bit larger than on the Sony models, but I find it quite readable. I converted the CBZ files to PDF sized for the iLiad screen with manga2pdf (see the iLiad forum), then use Acrobat 7 to reduce the filesize. This compresses the images somewhat, but I still find the pages readable.
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I'm probably the manga-expert around here.
I've been using the PRS500 and now am using PRS505 to read manga, but I convert my manga completely to LRF. Although the reader can read pictures and pdf, both formats are not so good for the reader. Using pictures, it's hard to navigate. Using PDF, the size is a problem. Converting PDFs to LRF, that would negate all problems. If you use a tool like rasterfarian, the contrast will be increased compared to normal pics. And the generated LRF will be a fraction of the PDF file. It's a bit outdated, but this review will give you a headstart: http://hightech.afmag.net/reading-ma...ve-review.html Oh, nekokami, I've created manga2pdf for the sony reader actually, so you can find it in the sony reader's forum. (I've chosen PDF as an intermediate format, because IF I ever buy another reader, I can easily reconvert the pdf to the correct fileformat) |
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athlonkmf, I thought manga2Ebook was yours, and manga2pdf was IceHand's?
Anyway, manga2pdf (the utility I was talking about) is here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12790 |
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