Prime subscribers also get access to any titles included in Prime Reading, which can be browsed and downloaded in-app, unlike purchases. The library is also hard to beat, with offerings from every publisher you care to imagine and a few more besides, frequent sales and discounts, and a range of comiXology Originals that offers a slate of titles not available anywhere else – including genuinely excellent work from creators including Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder. Not only is comiXology still the main avenue for buying digital comics day and date with physically released new issues, but as a reader app, its Guided View mechanic – which sweeps through zoomed-in panels for an almost cinematic reading experience – remains best in class.
However, muddle through the purchase process and comiXology still has its perks. Amazon’s push to merge comics into its own Kindle ecosystem, coupled with the absolute mess that searching for anything on Amazon is nowadays, has ruined what once felt like the future of comics. Both Android and iOS apps have long lacked the ability to buy comics in-app – speculated to be a way to avoid cuts taken by the respective app stores – which forces readers into the frankly terrible user experience of having to search for and buy comics through Amazon’s website, then managing their library back in the comiXology app. However, the platform was bought by Amazon in 2014 and, well, it’s all been a bit downhill ever since.
Moving away from simple comics readers and into the realm of digital comic storefronts, comiXology was once the pinnacle of digital comics as an entire concept. Price: App free Individual purchases Amazon Prime subscriptions Best of all, it integrates with just about every cloud storage option out there, allowing you to easily load your comics into the app. In fact, the more you dig into Chunky, the more features you'll uncover – such as auto-contrast features, parental controls, western and manga reading modes, and both portrait and landscape display support. Supporting CBR, CBZ, and PDF formats, Chunky will automatically upscale low-resolution material, with pretty impressive results – as the developer says, it's "built by graphics-geeks, for comic-nerds." It will also automatically arrange your collection as you import files, and recognise metadata tags from cataloguing services. The lack of iPhone support may disappoint – as might its absence from Android tablets – but this is an app designed to make your digital comics look as good as possible, which means demanding the biggest screens possible. Chunky is a pure reader targeting the iPad exclusively.
0 kommentar(er)
