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The Modern Leper posted:Just used in the US, but the code didn't activate. On a 7-day trial for the moment, but sent a message into support. Update: Got an email confirming that they added the discount to my account, but it does read as though it was added in response to my email.
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Wow. What an absolute dumpster fire of an update. This is unusable for me. I'm deleting the app off my phone until they roll this back.
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Mar 3, 2022 23:38
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https://twitter.com/shambrookben/status/1499611864715915265?s=20&t=-OFodANtn3-GlvHm1njtxw lmao this is going great here 
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It's one (albeit very annoying) thing in the US where if you live in distance of a comic shop you should be ok (minus the agrovstions of that activity) but internationally and rural america this has been nothing short of a complete loving disaster.
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Mar 6, 2022 08:45
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My recent experience is opening the app, scrolling for a second, then closing it after it’s frozen. Haven’t read anything for… well I can pinpoint the time.
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Mar 6, 2022 10:58
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Haven't read anything for a while, decided I'd try today. gently caress me the Kindle reader on browser is abysmal. Completely unusable trash.
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Mar 6, 2022 13:23
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I'm glad the app reader hasn't significantly changed, since I never used the website anyway, but that sucks for those of you who do. I also have an iPad so Jeff wouldn't sell me comics in-app, anyway, since Tim wanted to take part of the sale price, so no change there, either.
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Mar 6, 2022 16:56
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The various DRM removal methods for Kindle books also work on comics downloaded via the Kindle app, so I can rescue my library, but I wish I didn't have to do this because Amazon just can't create a working online reader.
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Mar 9, 2022 05:25
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How exactly does that work? Is there a guide? I would like to liberate my collection and put it in another app.
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Mar 9, 2022 07:37
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x1o posted:The various DRM removal methods for Kindle books also work on comics downloaded via the Kindle app, so I can rescue my library, but I wish I didn't have to do this because Amazon just can't create a working online reader. The books downloaded this way seem to be way lower quality vs. the old download from the Comixology website versions. At least on the windows app.
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Mar 9, 2022 08:50
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why would they need to come up with a new online reader? the old one worked perfectly, goddammit.
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Mar 9, 2022 10:22
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Synthbuttrange posted:why would they need to come up with a new online reader? the old one worked perfectly, goddammit. someone has goals to meet internally
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Mar 9, 2022 19:49
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Cloks posted:someone has goals to meet internally Also I imagine they will fire the comixology team instead of having two teams developing readers. Because they don't understand why they need a comics focused reader
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Mar 9, 2022 19:52
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Billy Gnosis posted:Also I imagine they will fire the comixology team instead of having two teams developing readers. Because they don't understand why they need a comics focused reader It's 100% this. Why have two readers when you can simply have one?
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hadji murad posted:How exactly does that work? Is there a guide? I would like to liberate my collection and put it in another app. I don't have time to go into complete detail here, but I was recently setting this up myself in order to read (on my Kobo) a book that was released only on the Kindle store, so here's a quick summary based on my experience. N.b. I've only tried this on prose books, not comics. - install the Kindle client version 1.17 (later versions download in a different format that is not as well understood) - log into your Kindle account using it - install Calibre ebook manager - install the DeDRM plugin for Calibre - Start up Calibre and go to Preferences→Plugins→DeDRM→Customize→Kindle for Mac/PC and click the green +; it should automatically extract your DRM keys from your Kindle install - download any books you want to read in the Kindle app, then import the AZW files into Calibre and it should automatically peel off the DRM as they're imported. That's for Windows/Mac. If you're on Linux it gets more annoying; you will need to install Kindle in wine, and may also need to install Python 2.7 and use the kindlekey.pyw script to extract the keys, as the plugin has issues automatically extracting them from wine installs.
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E: thank you I will look into this! ^^ What are the best iOS comic reading apps? I like YAC reader but the interface bugs me a little and I keep turning pages when I try to enter a menu. A Second Edit: I changed the page settings when in a comic and you can swipe on the bottom and hitting the middle screen brings up the options. This is much more my speed! hadji murad fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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Mar 10, 2022 01:38
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https://twitter.com/kellysue/status/1502007233621618695?t=aiO7gZ8VOFjZlj_Bq-2u3Q&s=19
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Mar 10, 2022 21:33
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As always with humble bundles, you might want to manually adjust the donations, default gives like 5% of the money to the charity it's supposed to be supporting. This one is for Hero Initiative which helps with medical costs for comic writers/artists who generally have to buy their own insurance.
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Mar 10, 2022 21:46
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I'm loving torn on this, because there's a lot of good stuff there but the stuff I'm really interested in (primarily Monstress and Saga) isn't finished, so I'll just end up sitting on it for years.
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ToxicFrog posted:I'm loving torn on this, because there's a lot of good stuff there but the stuff I'm really interested in (primarily Monstress and Saga) isn't finished, so I'll just end up sitting on it for years. Bitch Planet is really good, and even though they aren't finished, there's a poo poo ton of Monstress and Saga to go through before you're all caught up.
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ToxicFrog posted:I'm loving torn on this, because there's a lot of good stuff there but the stuff I'm really interested in (primarily Monstress and Saga) isn't finished, so I'll just end up sitting on it for years. Saga is so good though. It just came back after a 3 year excruciating break. Get in and take it slow.
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Mar 11, 2022 01:28
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Paper Girls is also great. drat, lots of good stuff in that bundle.
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Mar 11, 2022 01:48
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i think it's weird that they put rat queens in it with Upchurch's history
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Skwirl posted:Bitch Planet is really good, and even though they aren't finished, there's a poo poo ton of Monstress and Saga to go through before you're all caught up. The problem is that if I read it now, by the time it's finished I won't remember anything about it because that will be many years and hundreds of books ago, so I'll have to reread the whole thing from the beginning anyways! These days I generally just don't start reading things at all until the whole thing is finished because of that; I might read the first chapter or volume to see if it's something I want to read, but not any further than that.
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Mar 11, 2022 04:37
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Suggesting the thread be retitled 'May your view be gutted'
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ToxicFrog posted:The problem is that if I read it now, by the time it's finished I won't remember anything about it because that will be many years and hundreds of books ago, so I'll have to reread the whole thing from the beginning anyways! These days I generally just don't start reading things at all until the whole thing is finished because of that; I might read the first chapter or volume to see if it's something I want to read, but not any further than that. I have some bad news about how serialized comic books work.
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Skwirl posted:I have some bad news about how serialized comic books work. Just because something is serialized doesn't mean it can't end, though! Transmetropolitan, Buck Godot, Wicked+Divine, and Lumberjanes, for example, all finished out their run and then ended. Same deal with most manga -- it's published one chapter at a time but sooner or later the story ends. Even settings that are in perpetual publication like Marvel often have story arcs or miniseries that eventually conclude and can then be read, like The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Gwenpool, Loki: Agent of Asgard,¹ and Nextwave. And in the case of Saga specifically, IIRC the author has said that they do have an end planned for it and the story is currently somewhere in the second half. Not sure about Monstress. I realize that a lot of people, probably most people, read this stuff chapter-by-chapter or volume-by-volume as it's released, but that doesn't work well for me, and my backlog of reading material is already so huge that it's hard to justify reading something unfinished when (a) I have no guarantee it will ever be finished -- even if the author has an ending planned, they might run out of money or lose interest or die before they conclude it -- and (b) doing so guarantees I'll have to reread it multiple times just to make sense of it, even if it's not something I would otherwise enjoying enough to be worth multiple readthroughs. ¹ although that one kind of hosed it up by having something like three massive universe-rewriting crossover events during its run that it was obligated to incorporate, to the severe detriment of it actually making sense
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I was reading Saga by trade but even before the huge hiatus I would often forget what was going on whenever I picked up a new trade. It's why I'm going to wait until it's done to get back into it, and if that takes a long time them so be it. I've got lots of other stuff to read in the meantime.
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I'm shocked to see just how poorly ComiXology's web browser replacement is, but more that it's been a month and not had a fix. This blows.
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Took me til now to notice their sales/deals section, which is far less emphasized than before, is basically "here are all 2500+ titles on sale, good luck telling them apart, rear end in a top hat."
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Space Fish posted:Took me til now to notice their sales/deals section, which is far less emphasized than before, is basically "here are all 2500+ titles on sale, good luck telling them apart, rear end in a top hat." Because you're supposed to be searching for the exact thing you want and lucky you if it happens to be on sale. If you want curating, well better hope the publisher or vendor decided to do it.
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Space Fish posted:Took me til now to notice their sales/deals section, which is far less emphasized than before, is basically "here are all 2500+ titles on sale, good luck telling them apart, rear end in a top hat." Also, have fun buying all of them one at a time instead of adding them to your cart!
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The comic deals page actually looks pretty close to the old format. Except for the whole Amazon is incapable of sorting by titles / series so within the sale itself everything is a mess. Like right now I see Womens’s History Month followed by an Avengers sale then Image Omnibus Sale then anime, etc etc which is exactly how the main sales/deals page on Amazon was. It’s still an overall loving mess and I think I’ve bought exactly one thing so far since the switchover. Oh yeah buying multiple comics still looks like a nightmare. Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Wait how do you find the sales section. I found it once by accident and it looked more or less fine but getting there is a lot harder than I thought
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Scroll way to the bottom of the landing page and there's "Deals on comics, graphics novels and manga"
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Endless Mike posted:Scroll way to the bottom of the landing page and there's "Deals on comics, graphics novels and manga" It’s at the very top too 
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my favorite part about sales, is if I'm interested in what's going on, you click "see more" and then you scroll to the bottom of the page, realize that it only shows about a third of what's on the carousel, and then there's this button  excellent desktop UI, amazon
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I know saying the comixology change sucks is old news, but it really really sucks
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I tried downloading everything I had downloaded in the previous app, and it filled my iPad but I only had downloaded 3/4 of the stuff. The file sizes and/or allocation is way off. It took 523 GB for this. Since then I have been deleting stuff form the app that I grabbed when they had DRM free downloads and putting it into YAC Reader. I’ve deleted over a 100 GB of stuff, but it has only freed up a few GBs of storage and still shows 523 used. It looks like I will have to finish importing to YAC, then delete the Comixology app, then redownload what I want to have in the app to a manageable file size. What a piece of poo poo.
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