![]() My tablet started out with great battery life as it was LITERALLY one of the things they advertised about it when it first launched. I think it's first gen and that works fine too. My husband has an ipad that he uses for manga as well. But of course if you want to read and own a more visually and verbally detailed manga then I would recommend getting something with atleast a 10 inch screen, more so if you plan to add western comics to your ebook library as western comics can be a nightmare on a smaller screen. The good thing about manga is a lot (but not all) have less text in speech balloons compared to western comics and thus can be read easily on even a phone screen. I also read manga off the crunchyroll manga app. Apps wise, I'm assuming you wish to go legal so I use comixology myself for most, if not all my purchases. I use a two year old Lenovo Yoga Tablet that has a 10.2 inch screen which I have found to be the perfect size for me since I use it to read both manga and western comics. I enjoy both my tablet and Kindle and don't think you'll make the "wrong" choice by going with one over the other! I just wanted to share my experience with an e-ink reader since the other commenters have focused a lot on tablets. I don't know if you can read Japanese, but if you do and want an e-ink reader, Amazon Japan just came out with this: I know there's even waterproof models out there (not by Amazon), so if reading in the bath or at the beach is your thing, those sound pretty great. But if you specifically only want a dedicated reading device, maybe look into an e-ink reader. ![]() The other commenters have brought up tons of good reasons on why you should go the tablet route, and I think if you will use your tablet for other things too (social media, Youtube, etc) then I think the tablet is worth the investment for sure. I still have my color comics and manga on here though, and for manga with lots of detail. I still love my tablet, but for a lot of my reading I've migrated to my Kindle. I used to read my manga/comics on a Samsung Note Pro 12.2" tablet (I wish it had a better model name, lol). If you are buying emanga directly from Amazon, this won't be a problem since they'll send you the whole volume at once. When you finish reading a chapter, it doesn't automatically go to the next-you have to go to Home, then find the next file and open it. Another thing is that kmanga sends you the manga chapter by chapter as separate files. I've gotten used to it and don't notice it anymore, but I can see how it might be very jarring for some people. On the Paperwhite 3rd gen, this happens very minimally with novels unless you go really fast, but with comics and manga it will do this every page. If you've ever held an e-ink reader and quickly 'flipped' through the pages before it loads, you might notice the whole screen flashing black for a second before the text comes back. It's true the Kindle is juuust slightly smaller than an American manga, but you just double tap a panel and it'll zoom in to make it easier to read! ![]() WanderingWastrel mentioned a panel-by-panel thing that does indeed work. It's also great how there's much less of a glare problem in bright areas than with regular tablet/phone screens. The screen is so much easier on the eyes than a tablet or computer screen, and I love the lightness. I also have 16 issues of The Walking Dead and several books and I still have ~900 mb left or so! It's 'only' 4 GB, but I have 145 chapters of the Bartender manga, along with everything out so far of Ballroom e Youkoso, Mahoutsukai no Yome, and Platinum End along with some other shorter series on here. I use (a free service of dubious legality, admittedly) to send manga to my Kindle and it works great! I also have The Walking Dead on here. It's not just stark black and white, but the grays in between are well-represented, so even color pages still look nice without the color. So it works best for manga without many color pages and for black and white comics. There is no color though, it's grayscale only. I just got the Kindle Paperwhite 3rd gen (the latest one Amazon says it's 7th gen but it's the third Paperwhite released) last week and I love it.
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