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So assuming they don't step back from that bad decision (again), what would be a good Comixology alternative? At this point I'm content to use Marvel and DC's subscription services to read their stuff but for other US publishers as well as manga, is there any good option out there that has a lot of stuff in one place?
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Feb 12, 2022 15:37
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Srice posted:So assuming they don't step back from that bad decision (again), what would be a good Comixology alternative? At this point I'm content to use Marvel and DC's subscription services to read their stuff but for other US publishers as well as manga, is there any good option out there that has a lot of stuff in one place? Shonen jump has a decent app that I don't use much because I'm too old to read a comic right from left, so that's a manga source.
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Feb 12, 2022 15:52
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Skwirl posted:Shonen jump has a decent app that I don't use much because I'm too old to read a comic right from left, so that's a manga source. Yea, I'm subscribed to it since it's an incredible deal. Though it only contains stuff that Viz publishes. Thinking more along the lines of a digital source that has stuff from as many publishers as possible so I can cut down on the amount of apps I gotta juggle to get my comics fix.
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Feb 12, 2022 15:58
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Some publishers have their own stores. The other services that purport to sell everything are limited to the more minor publishers in the business, won't have Marvel, DC, or Image.
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Feb 12, 2022 16:00
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Hold up the comixology app is getting the axe too? EDIT: gently caress it's getting updated to all this poo poo it looks like? 
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Feb 12, 2022 16:00
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Srice posted:So assuming they don't step back from that bad decision (again), what would be a good Comixology alternative? At this point I'm content to use Marvel and DC's subscription services to read their stuff but for other US publishers as well as manga, is there any good option out there that has a lot of stuff in one place? Google Play books is what I'm doing for Image books, they also have DRM free downloads as an option generally. On the imagecomics.com website for a comic, there's a buy drop-down link that includes Google and other places you can buy a book.
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Feb 12, 2022 22:56
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How are the Marvel digital codes going to work? Redeem them and read them in the new poo poo Amazon app?
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Feb 12, 2022 22:59
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Aren't the digital codes technically being redeemed for the Marvel app and you can link it with comiXology to mirro the libraries?
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Feb 12, 2022 23:24
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I just don't get the logic here. Like sure, you want synergy or whatever and think other people care about it, just change the app name to Prime Comix or whatever. You already have a perfectly ok system, why build a new, worse one?
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Feb 13, 2022 00:25
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Opopanax posted:I just don't get the logic here. Like sure, you want synergy or whatever and think other people care about it, just change the app name to Prime Comix or whatever. You already have a perfectly ok system, why build a new, worse one? companies Amazon's size don't make decisions to benefit the consumer, they're made to burnish resumes and create the illusion of internal progress
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Feb 13, 2022 00:33
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Cloks posted:companies Amazon's size don't make decisions to benefit the consumer, they're made to burnish resumes and create the illusion of internal progress Yeah, you don't get promoted for keeping a thing that already works well running, you get promoted for launching a new thing that replaces it. As for where I get my comics -- generally the same places I get my ebooks (humble store, kobo, etc), and then pry the DRM off them if needed so I can actually read them on my tablet.
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Feb 13, 2022 01:30
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According to the Comixology site, the app is getting "updated" to whatever the new one is, so I guess we'll see how terrible it is in a few days. That said, it's not great getting an individual email for each subscribed comic I'm getting this week.
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Feb 13, 2022 02:18
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So I clicked on the link that shows what the comic store will look like in my country after the changes, and it's awful. No way to discover new series, no recommendations, just a random collection of single issues, trades and manga from random years. The only benefit from all this is that I can break the DRM so I can read my purchases on various devices like I do with all my ebooks.
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Feb 14, 2022 07:10
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What books can have the DRM removed? Going through the Amazon link took me to a page with a single column that consisted entirely of Demon Slayer Managua which I have no interest in.
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Feb 14, 2022 11:13
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hadji murad posted:What books can have the DRM removed? Most books sold by Amazon can have their DRM removed, it requires Calibre and a very specific version of the Kindle desktop software, but it's how I get the ebooks I buy from Amazon to work on my Kobo.
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Feb 15, 2022 04:16
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i took part in a beta trial for the new comixology app (the NDA has lifted as of today, since they're rolling out the updated app now, according to an email they just sent out) and i'm morbidly curious as to what it will look like. sincerely hope they took some feedback and made meaningful changes. a few months ago, it was effectively a stripped down version of the kindle reader for iPad. The storefront UI was janky as all hell, subscription service navigation seemed like a nightmare (I don't do any subscriptions but I did explore it a little bit). if I had to choose between finding comics on amazon's storefront in a web browser or discovering new comics on the beta version of the new app, I would hop on my laptop 100% of the time.
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Feb 15, 2022 18:18
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Well the update is out. The reader is… mostly the same? Feels like they changed poo poo around for the sake of changing it but I can still read it as I generally do (landscape / 2 pages). New storefront in the app looks like a mess but so I’ll keep buying poo poo on the actual website.
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Feb 15, 2022 19:18
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my iPad got the update pushed and yeah this is basically what it looked like a few months ago. I think the only change is the pinch & zoom to change cover size. The storefront stuff looks the same -- 5-6 carousel rows of stuff, mostly just trying to get me to look at Comixology Unlimited and Prime Reading stuff. Also forgot to mention that the list feature (which is buried in the user settings) is trash, disappointingly.
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Feb 15, 2022 20:45
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How's browsing your library in the new app? I don't regularly use comixology, but when they had a poo poo ton of Black Panther and later Scooby Doo comics for free I did grab those.
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Feb 15, 2022 21:07
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Skwirl posted:How's browsing your library in the new app? I don't regularly use comixology, but when they had a poo poo ton of Black Panther and later Scooby Doo comics for free I did grab those. Honestly, it's the one bit that seems a wash/maybe a mild improvement? You can sort by 'author' (which has problems applied to comics, obv) but also title or most recent purchase, have individual issues or grouped as series. It's fine. Which makes sense, it's the part that would likely have gotten the worst reception if it was an active downgrade and there's no incentive for them to mess it up to try and funnel readers to let the algorithm do all the thinking about what you want to see, unlike with the store. The store, whoo boy, even in the app it's a mess. The publisher filters for new releases don't work, there's no other filters except for Amazon rating, not creator, not trade/GN vs issue, no way to sort by alphabetical. In short, slap the square peg into the round hole of the Amazon storefront and the algorithm.
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Feb 15, 2022 21:27
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Well the update is out. The reader is… mostly the same? Feels like they changed poo poo around for the sake of changing it but I can still read it as I generally do (landscape / 2 pages). New storefront in the app looks like a mess but so I’ll keep buying poo poo on the actual website. Guess what, the website is going too! And will now direct to the Amazon site, and will basically look like it does in the app. (with maybe a few more features, to be fair)
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Feb 15, 2022 21:38
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Alright, downloaded the update on my iPad. There's basically nothing in this that's an improvement, and there's definitely some steps back in functionality, but nothing really that's a dealbreaker for me. The screen I looked at close to 100% of the time was the Smart Lists tab where I'd read and download my new purchases, with a carousel of "Unread" letting me get through stuff. That's gone. You can still filter to functionally the same thing, but why not just have the view I had? (Or let me set up my own smart lists? That would be nice!) I suspect the main Library view is more powerful overall than the old Smart Lists, as it has a lot of options for filtering and sorting, but it also means switching back and forth to do things. Annoying, but not a huge deal. The list view actually seems decent enough, but also comics have nice covers I want to see, so I doubt I'll be using it much. The Discover tab seems decent enough for searching for things - about on par with the Comixology website (the Amazon site remains to be seen, but I'm not expecting to heap much praise there, either). Still can't buy comics directly in the app, but that's not unexpected, but you can download things in Unlimited if you're a member. The actual reading experience seems to be the same. It defaulted to single-page view with a vertical scroll when in landscape, which is *interesting* but not at all how I want to read. It took finding the right option, but I was able to get it back to the double-page landscape layout I prefer. All in all, it's an update that doesn't make much sense other than to, I assume, unify the code base with the Kindle app.
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Feb 16, 2022 05:15
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That last part is the key I think. It's basically the current Kindle app with a couple of mods to make it just usable enough for comics. Because a bunch of the big features are basically nothings. The whole 'read while downloading ' thing is nonsense when talking about even prose books, let alone a 22 page comic. It's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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Feb 16, 2022 05:24
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I haven't gotten the update on my Android devices yet, but I was part of the beta trial as well and am not terribly optimistic about it. Two things that stood out to me during the beta:
Those were the two big issues I recall, and I remember not being the only tester to mention them. I guess we'll see if the official release does any better with regards to those particular points. Alehkhs fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Feb 16, 2022 |
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Feb 16, 2022 05:45
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I didn't notice any difference in quality, even in the little bit of GV I used, so maybe that was fixed or an Android-specific issue. I didn't realize "read while downloading" was a new thing since I've been able to that for as long as I remember? EDIT: Comics aren't shared with your Amazon Household lmao Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Feb 16, 2022 |
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Feb 16, 2022 14:10
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Is there any way in this new, terrible app to get rid of the tiny "active" comic at the bottom of the screen on iOS? I'm done with reading and it seems like it's stuck there forever until I choose something else.
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Feb 17, 2022 23:33
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Not that I've found.
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Feb 17, 2022 23:47
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Is the old app dead now?
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Feb 18, 2022 00:31
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The comixology storefront now no longer works if you don't live in the US, just directs you to an empty Amazon landing page where none of the links work.
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Feb 18, 2022 00:55
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hadji murad posted:Is the old app dead now?
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Feb 18, 2022 01:08
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My phone app is telling me to sign in to see my library, but my iPad still functions the same. That store is a mess and I don’t feel like spending any time browsing. I tried seeing things I’ve already bought, and aside from telling me when I acquired it, it looks like I could buy it again if I hit the wrong button. The experience is really unpleasant and I think I am going to be saving a lot more money going forward because I am not just going to go to the shop to look at comics, especially when everything is steering me to Comixology Unlimiited.
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Feb 18, 2022 01:53
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 Oh, cool. Now I have to remember when what few comics I read actually come out and buy them individually, can't just get the app to buy them automatically and tell me when they're out. Not even a "will not be available at this time", just "not American? Get hosed" Is there a single good thing about this update?
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Feb 18, 2022 02:02
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God drat the amazon store sucks for comics. gently caress. Can no longer browse sales while seeing what I own (and what I don't). Now it's only the cost generally showing 0 because it's either kindle or comixology unlimited (oh wait the cost is in tiny font at the bottom lol). gently caress this sucks rear end. EDIT: Ok if I go to the series page itself (sex criminals as example) then it does show all items and tells if you own them. BUT: volumes and singles (and omnis) are kept separatedly so you can't just browse ALL that a series has. It's all broken down. God drat I hate this the more I dig into it. Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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Feb 18, 2022 03:01
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Space_Butler posted:Is there any way in this new, terrible app to get rid of the tiny "active" comic at the bottom of the screen on iOS? I'm done with reading and it seems like it's stuck there forever until I choose something else. lol i reported this bug months ago, as it also interferes with the ability to read descriptions of comics and select certain buttons (eg "read more" to expand a description of a book). 
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Feb 18, 2022 03:57
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https://twitter.com/mckelvie/status/1494362801086869506?s=21 https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1494500425109704709?s=10 I’m glad everyone is mostly mad at this.
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Feb 18, 2022 04:08
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Turns out my tablet is too old for the new Comixology app, but a blue screen on the old app still asks me to update and doesn't let me do anything. I know that I need a new tablet, but...basically forcing me to upgrade or else isn't a very kind move.
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Feb 18, 2022 04:46
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Bayham Badger posted:lol i reported this bug months ago, as it also interferes with the ability to read descriptions of comics and select certain buttons (eg "read more" to expand a description of a book). Because it's not a bug. It's part of the Kindle app this is a lazy reskin of, without thinking about how prose differs.
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Feb 18, 2022 04:57
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One nice thing is I found a bunch of graphic novels on prime that I can one click over to the app now (never bothered with the kindle app)
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The irony is the Comixology UX probably would've been a decent place to start an overhaul of Kindle.
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