Add on furigana and you spend a LOT of time zooming in and out on Manga on a smaller screen. It’s not a 1:1 but will give an idea.Īs others have mentioned, and I think I did as well, 6' screen is kinda annoying for Manga in English.

Find a free Manga or a preview (Book Walker offers free previews). Doesn’t matter if you have 4.5 or up to a 6' screen, it will give you a feel for how things work on a 6' screen. Mostly.Īs a test, open the Kindle app or Book Walker app on your phone. Novels and such are just fine and since you can adjust font size, pretty easy to match a regular print novel in size. The only issue with 6' screens is Manga is kinda… annoying. I have heard there are other sources for manga, and the Kindle device’s locked-down OS wouldn’t be great for that.Īlso, do be aware that most devices can only be linked to one Amazon account at a time, so you cannot use the same device for both your regular Amazon account (assuming you have one) and .jp account without having to reset and re-download your library each time. I’m looking at maybe getting the Nova because I really LOVE e-ink screens and having a full Android OS with that plus the notetaking features would be awesome.įor now, I read ebooks on a Kindle Paperwhite (I picked up the special manga edition while I was in Japan a while back), but use the Kindle app on an old 10' Samsung tablet I had lying around for manga, because I found that trying to read manga on the Kindle was difficult if I didn’t know all the kanji as the furigana were too small to make out without zooming in.Īmazon is still the only marketplace I know of for Japanese ebooks, so you’ll likely be using a Kindle app on whatever device you choose anyway (although some books can be converted to other formats), so I’d say just choose a device you like the features of and go with that. I’ve heard good things about the Boox e-readers.

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