Honestly, aside from the exhaust fan burning my hand sometimes, which is easily solved with a better grip, the anti glare screen makes it amazing for manga and books!

edit : damn i hate posting images on this platform

    • Ajzak@lemm.eeOP
      14·
      4 days ago

      Mihon thru Waydroid. way less hassle than anything else and android is great for touchscreen

      • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
        4·
        4 days ago

        I’d checkout komiikku (think I spelled that wrong) but personally it’s my favorite manga app. I installed Linux on a phone just to use that instead. It’s on flathub

      • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        If you want to read within Linux, Papers is touchscreen-friendly. KOreader is probably the best touchscreen experience, once you get past its awkward but incredibly configurable interface.

        My eyes are too old to read on the Deck’s screen, personally.

        • Ajzak@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          3 days ago

          The only thing I was put off by the linux way was how much setup would need to be done for making the screen vertical. Like if I had to go to desktop mode to rotate the screen every time i wanted to read manga. Whereas here i downloaded two apps, one for screen rotation control (didn’t really experiment with adding gyro for rotation control, dunno if it’s even possible) and one for manga.

          Would increasing the text size help with reading? Sometimes I can’t catch details either, but with how high quality the scans and software got you can just zoom in and the 7 inch screen will help with that.

          • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
            1·
            3 days ago

            Try KOReader, it can rotate itself any way you want. I also use a plugin for it which automatically rotates depending on the aspect ratio of the page. Can also change the font size on the fly, zoom in and out and it’s available as Flatpak on the Deck.

            The UI is made for e-ink displays so don’t expect a beautiful UI with it but the reader is one of the best. I recommend reading the manual which opens on first start, it’s mostly controlled by gestures.

            I recently got a PineNote and have been reading my first manga (Berserk) non-stop since christmas in KOReader. I’m almost done with Berserk now.

        • Ajzak@lemm.eeOP
          2·
          4 days ago

          what’s the difference between the two? looks to me they’re very similar.

          • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
            4·
            4 days ago

            it’s ready to use without any set up, it does not require you to install extensions, it functions on the bare minimum permissions

            It’s newer than mihon which is built on tachiyomi and the reading experience at the end is similar, but even then I think that kotatsu is currently more of a rounded experience

            Few things I noticed:

            1. Better interaction with manwha and reading alongside manga
            2. Better manga downloads
            3. Better notifications for new releases
            4. Easier to distinguish between who released in aggregators
            5. Easier to find alternatives for manga on different sites for official releases, better sites, or on the direct fansites
            6. Decent recommendations from different sites and what-not, where I found some interesting manga
            7. Focuses more on the manga in question more than the source of where it’s coming from
            8. Allows for manga sites with accounts to be able to be logged into, allows you to use coins and what-not that way

            Also, some things that it js worse than mihon/tachiyomi at:

            1. If you have uncertain internet then it’ll hang on loading even though you have the entire manga installed to the drive, which doesn’t happen when you’re offline
            2. Slower updates on f-droid, so patches may come later
            3. Less of a community, less people to help with making kotatsu work with sites, so smaller sites are less focused on
            4. The reading progress isn’t as accurate, and may show 0% on manga that are up-to-date, 99% on manga that are done, and 100% even though there are still 3-4 chapters remaining

            Kotatsu: 1000014701

            1000014703

            1000014705

            Mihon: 1000014702

            1000014704

            • Ajzak@lemm.eeOP
              2·
              3 days ago

              Damn, thanks for the detailed comparison! I’ll have to check it out now