Hot take: reading digital comics on a tablet ruined physical floppies for me

I used to swear by my weekly pull list at the local shop in Oakwood. Every Wednesday I would grab my five or six issues, pile them up, and never actually read them because they sat in a stack on my nightstand. Then last year I tried a 30 day free trial of a digital service on my old iPad. I finished a whole story arc in one evening just by tapping through panels. Now I barely touch my physical books. The convenience is too good, no bagging, no boarding, no storage issues. But part of me feels like I lost the whole experience of the paper and the cover art. Has anyone else dealt with this switch and found a way to enjoy both?

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the_fiona1mo ago

My issue with digital is that I actually read slower on a screen. I have a 9.7 inch iPad and I find myself swiping through pages without really taking in the art the way I do with paper. Something about the physical turning of a page forces me to pause and look at the double page spread. I tried the Marvel Unlimited app for a year and I finished whole runs in a weekend but I couldnt tell you the name of the artist on any of them. Now I buy physical issues only for books where the art matters most like anything by JH Williams III or Fiona Staples, and use digital for everything else.

charlie_roberts871mo ago

Huh, that actually makes a lot of sense now.