Comment on The deck is a damn good manga reader

• secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Try kotatsu too

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  • Ajzak@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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      • Ajzak@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Ajzak@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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    • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Ajzak@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ll try it out, thanks!

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