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Question: What device and format do you read the comics in?  (Voting closed: November 02, 2019, 02:24:12 pm)
Directly from the site, on a laptop or desktop. - 27 (55.1%)
Directly from the site, on a tablet. - 7 (14.3%)
Directly from the site, on a phone. - 4 (8.2%)
PDF downloads, on a laptop or desktop. - 10 (20.4%)
PDF downloads, on a tablet. - 1 (2%)
PDF downloads, on a phone. - 0 (0%)
Total Voters: 49

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Daphne
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« on: October 26, 2019, 02:24:12 pm »

Now that the site redesign has been around for a while, let's re-ask this question: What format do you read the comics in? Comments below, as always.
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ozymandias
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2019, 02:53:11 pm »

Roughly equally desktop and tablet, live. I selected desktop on the survey. For series I especially like, I download the image files or PDFs for offline viewing, "later"--typically when I'm trying to work out who is who.
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2019, 06:22:27 pm »

There are periods where computer access isn't super convenient for me, so I often check out new releases on my phone. Ideally it would be PDFs on a tablet, but for various reasons I rarely get around to it.
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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2019, 07:33:26 pm »

Mixture of desktop and tablet.  It might actually be nice to redo the survey to let people pick multiple methods in preference order; I suspect a lot of people don't have just one.
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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2019, 12:57:48 am »

Typically by downloading the pdf's where available and reading on desktop as this has some advantages for me, primarily ability to (re-) read off line (useful to check the story-so-far when a new epsiode comes out) and being able to combine the episodes into one document
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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2019, 01:33:50 am »

My first read is almost always live from the site. Cheesy

I have a few favorite stories that I save to PDF for later re-reads. Roll Eyes

All on my desktop.

(though it does technically sit on the floor)
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« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2019, 01:51:47 am »

The way I most often read comics is from downloaded image files.

I don't know what other options people use to view PDFs on a (Windows) laptop. Acrobat doesn't handle shrinking the page to fit on the (landscape) screen as well as the default Windows image viewer does - the text can be difficult to read. However it sometimes handles zooming in better than the default Windows image viewer so occasionally I resort to the PDF if there's some detail I can't make out.

A folder full of downloaded pages is really the only way to be able to look at SJI the way you need to.
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« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2019, 06:38:04 am »

First read is live, usually on tablet but sometimes on PC.
Subsequent reads are sometimes live, sometimes PDF. I use a comics reader app on tablet, and CDisplay Ex on Windows.
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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2019, 08:56:57 pm »

first read live on a laptop or desktop but do
PDF downloads, on a laptop or desktop.
PDF downloads, on a tablet.
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« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2019, 09:36:30 pm »

Cover has a nice, modern Windows 10 and tablet interface, if you're willing to drop a couple bucks on it to unlock larger library sizes.

On iOS, I've decided I like Chunky.
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« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2019, 10:08:33 am »

I read it either on a phone or a laptop computer. Voted phone because that's what I'm using right now.
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