Can Kindle Comics Be Read on Comixology
And then here nosotros are. The fateful day has come. Where comiXology and Amazon's "team-up" shows u.s. their homework. Does it become a pass or a fail? Boyfriend Beat Mansion housemate Cy Beltran already gave a pretty hefty lowdown merely hither is the perspective from Dean Simons, a Britain-based ability user of the app.
THE WEBSITE – finding your new comics
Here we go, your new i-stop shop for all your comics, graphic novel and manga purchases, soon to be found on the same place y'all might buy your new role chair, lawnmower or groceries.
And so where is it? Your path from the Amazon Front Page to the New (shortly to be just) Comixology page is as follows:
In US:
Amazon Home Page>All>Digital Content & Devices>Kindle E-readers & Books>Kindle Store>Kindle Books>More in Kindle>Comics and Graphic Novels
In UK:
Amazon Dwelling Page> All> Digital Content & Devices>Kindle Store>Kindle Books>Department/Kindle Shop/Kindle ebooks/Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels
Intuitive? Or buried?
THE WEB SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
Nosotros notwithstanding fortunately have the main comiXology page for now, only the new Amazon comiXology folio is somewhat set. It is radically different outside the US, however, with all the bells and whistles either stripped out or yet to be implemented so it is just a mess. Expert luck finding things.
Checking the Amazon pages in France and Bharat for comics, India has none of the comiXology changes while the French site is as bare as the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland's. Lovely.
This is your new Amazon comiXology page if you are a U.s. user:
And the UK equivalent is the same? NOPE!
I of the big perks of the comiXology website was existence able to check out new sales, which would exist grouped into specific categories on the aforementioned page. As well every bit the relatively intuitive comics browsing feel. Amazon US has implemented some of those (but non mirrored the lot), but the UK page has none of these groupings then you will take to go through a whole mess of things on sale to run into if you want annihilation. A perfect disincentive to shop, as the experience is every bit tiring and futile as for any other Kindle volume auction. You will most likely only use the shop now to buy things you are actually looking for.
THE APP
Hither we go. The NEW, IMPROVED, CORPORATE-MANDATED KINDLE COMIXOLOGY READING EXPERIENCE! So what have we got? Is it better?
On opening the app, and going through the log-in process and the interminably long loading procedure of my books, the entire affair looks and functions the same as the vanilla Kindle app would. The – albeit dated – quality of life elements that made the original comiXology app a place to regularly visit and employ accept been removed and replaced past everything that you associate with Kindle functionality.
I have been a heavy user of comiXology for some years now. My main reading experience is via phone and tablet. I have tried several apps – publisher exclusive apps (2000AD, Nighttime Horse, Shonen Leap); culling storefronts like Europe'south Izneo and Sequential. None accept been as intuitive or comfortable to purchase through and use as the comiXology app.
Due to the strengths of the features over the contest, the majority of my overall comics purchases (particularly of singles and manga, only increasingly of graphic novels) accept been via the main comiXology app – with the comfortably intuitive reading experience keeping the app a become-to equally a daily reader. I would keep a large number of books downloaded that I would without much idea or trepidation jump between.
The updated comiXology app now merges books that were only available on Kindle and not on comiXology – however they exercise not automatically implement the comiXology guided-view functionality, and some books are withal unreadable. And also do not utilise the HD functionality.
Serial are at present grouped in the same style as series in the traditional Kindle app. No charming front image here. It is different but you can still tell what you are browsing between.
Riad Sattouf's The Arab of the Time to come, previously a Kindle-sectional book, is now on my comiXology app, only navigation, as on graphic novels formatted for Kindle, is still incredibly slow. At least the epitome quality is much better. There is no guided view simply pinch-zoom works for this book.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Isabel Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early World, which still shows pages in miniscule double-page spreads that cannot be pinch zoomed, and the double tap functionality is switched off in this merger. So either get a magnifying glass or give up.
The reading feel for your standard comiXology purchases is likewise non great. Page turns are no longer fast and intuitive, suffering from intense lag that wasn't nowadays in the quondam comiXology app.
Manga suffers from an annoyingly distracting white border on unmarried pages in portrait mode that cannot be removed in the paltry settings available to toggle. I vaguely remember this was an upshot when I in one case attempted to apply Kindle to read manga in the by. The only way to remove these borders is to rotate to landscape mode, which will give yous a double folio spread…but that isn't helpful if you are using a pocket-size screen.
Overall the app is a rush chore of forcing all your comics onto Kindle – instead of utilising the engineering science of the industry-leading comiXology app. It is everything that the standard Kindle app is (which is serviceable at best) merely non properly developed for comics. Instead of a fresh start for comiXology, this is a massive, laggy, regressive stride. One hopes that this will exist improved over fourth dimension but people accept probably hoped for the same thing on the main Kindle app for years.
The Kindle app was never something one enjoys browsing only at least the reading experience never felt so clunky. It is easier to scroll through text, only images are another story and it is baffling that this wasn't acknowledged equally a potential issue when this merger was initiated.
THE READING EXPERIENCE
Page turns are extremely slow and the in one case-pleasurable comiXology reading experience is no longer as fast or intuitive as the user wants. Guided View works or doesn't — your book's mileage may vary.
THE Form: ???
The "new" comiXology is the transfer of the content attributed to comiXology, plus the 'guided-view technology,' to a barely reskinned Kindle app. If you like the Kindle app, and so this is the exact aforementioned affair – but slower equally we are dealing with epitome files instead of text ones.
Information technology is baffling that the relatively more avant-garde, intuitive and perfected comiXology app'southward features were then quickly jettisoned in favour of an inferior production.
The new website isn't ready for use, and and so the current comiXology website is still at play. The "new" app shouldn't have been implemented if it wasn't ready for use.
It would be easy to neglect the app only instead I feel it doesn't fifty-fifty deserve a grade at this juncture. It is just so rushed and unfinished.
If y'all are considering updating to the new app at the insistence of comiXology. Don't. Just don't. Go along the quondam one equally long as you are able.
Source: https://www.comicsbeat.com/comixology-amazon-kindle-comics-uk-experience/
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