Digital collections make comics on your iPad easy and cheap

Our friend Macenstein has a nice tip running over on his blog about how to get more comics on your iPad. The iPad is a device that seems made for comic book reading -- that display is colorful and bright, and the touchscreen lets you examine comic art from any size or angle. The problem, however, is price -- while there are some good official apps out there, and some great free comics in them, purchased comics still aren't too cheap, even compared to the real thing.

Enter Amazon, which is selling things like this DVD of Archie Comics for super cheap. For four bucks, you can get 120 digital comics. That's an amazing deal, and while there aren't a lot of those to go around, there are definitely other digital collections you can purchase for much cheaper than actually buying them piecemeal.

Turning those comics into PDFs (or just finding them on the disc) is usually not a problem, and then just dragging the PDFs into iTunes and cracking them open in iBooks is even simpler. And voila, you've got tons and tons of comics to read on your iPad. Excellent tip, and a great way to pick up a lot more comic books to read on your next plane trip.

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cathy

I think this companyâ€™s product is very good! I bought one iphone last week, with very comfortable
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cathy

I think this companyâ€™s product is very good! I bought one iphone last week, with very comfortable
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March 10 2011 at 8:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

keno

4 bucks for 120 Archie comics is a good deal? Does that mean they'll give you 4 bucks? because otherwise, is that really a good deal?

January 03 2011 at 3:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

demuredemeanor

I suggest ComicBookLover over iBooks or ComicZeal.

December 31 2010 at 7:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

HappyPig

I just started using Cloudreader for the iPad and love it. It's free (take that, ComicZeal) and reads .cbr's and .cbz's.

December 31 2010 at 4:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

boil

What I need though, is new & current issues available in a digital formatâ€¦!

I will still continue to buy the old paper-based products, but would LOVE to be able to just pick those up already bagged & boarded, file them away in a comic box for future covers only view pleasures; and then move on to the digital version on an iPad for getting into the guts of it allâ€¦

"The usual vault rules apply; touch not, lest ye be touched."

December 31 2010 at 4:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

punkassjim

You're doing what I'm doing, and I've found ComicZeal to be a far more enjoyable than just viewing PDFs in iBooks. Especially if you've got a ton of CBR files that need to be organized. iBooks gets unwieldy.

And honestly, PDF feels like a dead format to me. Especially for this medium, it's just not as flexible or efficient.

December 31 2010 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Goodman

Yeah, those PDF collections from GIT Corp are great. I recommend using GoodReader for iPad to read them- otherwise you can be stuck with a watermark over the artwork.

December 31 2010 at 3:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Neil

I've been doing this for a while with some of the Marvel DVDs (44 years of the Fantastic Four etc). One problem I've had is the PDFs all have large "MARVEL" watermarks when viewed on the iPad. Has anyone had the same issue? Fixed it?

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