Comics on my iPod Touch
Books still rule for me, but I am interested in some of the ebook readers that are now available, and when Amazon’s Kindle appears in the UK, I will certainly check it out. I’ve downloaded a few iPod applications for reading ebooks, and even bought a few books for them, but I still find it an unsatisfactory way to read. I prefer the feel of a book in my hands.
However, since so much of my reading’s been comics in the last month, I’ve been really happy with an application called Comiczeal. This allows you to arrange your digital comics in collections, and with a new update released recently, you can even view the books in your collections on virtual shelves.
Turn the iPod/iPhone on its side, and the image rotates to fill the screen, which in most instances gives a really clear view. You can also double-tap to zoom in on a detail, or use any of the other multi-touch gestures.
To move up and down the page, you just swipe your finger in the direction you need, and to move from page to page you swipe right to left to advance, left to right to go back a page.
Comiczeal’s a really elegant little app, and works excellently for reading comics. It’s the first time that I’ve felt fully satisfied by reading digitally.
