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I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

What's the @#%^ing point, honestly

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.

Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ha, good response. Didn't know people got comic books on Kindle. Thought the point was having/collecting the physical ones.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Well, once you have a room full of long boxes, you kinda have to either become rich enough to build a new house with dedicated comic storage, or you start looking at digital.

Half joke aside (because good luck affording a house nowadays), reading comics digitally is actually very nice, but being able to have and store an entire published history of a comic on a single drive instead of taking up multiple boxes is too damn nice to ignore. And that's assuming you're paying for the digital version. If you pirate, the money issue is a major decrease in resources needed to enjoy comics. Hard to pirate physical copies of the very old and rare stuff, but easy to find digitally.

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