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Why does nobody make the tablet I want?
Mar. 17th, 2013 11:00 amOn my DRM rant ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
despotliz posted about Marvel Unlimited. And I'd happily pay $10/month for access to 13,000 comics - it seems like perfect way of consuming them actually - not having to worry about whether a particular comic is worth $x, but being able to try things out, read whole runs, etc. And not needing massive amounts of storage to keep them in.
But...I'm not reading them on a latop/PC. Both of those have landscape screens, and the PC screen isn't going to sit comfortably in my lap. I want something tablet shaped.
But I don't want a 10" screen. I've read comics on a 10" screen, and you either read a bit of the page at a time (frustrating) or you read it at a size 10-20% smaller than print. Which makes it harder to enjoy the art, and harder to read the text. Frankly, I like the Absolute presentation for comic art - I want my comics blown up to a larger size, not shrunk down to a smaller one.
So I went looking for larger tablets. After all, you can buy phones in a variety of sizes - if I can buy a 5.3" phone, surely someone has made a tablet that's larger than 10"?
But so far I'm having no luck. There's _talk_ about 12" and 13" tablets. Toshiba seems to have had a lot of build up for an "Excite 13" - but there's no sign of it ever actually having been released in the US, let alone the UK. Archos _did_ release the FamilyPad, but apparently botched it with an incredibly slow processor and awful screen.
If anyone sees one, do let me know...
despotliz posted about Marvel Unlimited. And I'd happily pay $10/month for access to 13,000 comics - it seems like perfect way of consuming them actually - not having to worry about whether a particular comic is worth $x, but being able to try things out, read whole runs, etc. And not needing massive amounts of storage to keep them in.But...I'm not reading them on a latop/PC. Both of those have landscape screens, and the PC screen isn't going to sit comfortably in my lap. I want something tablet shaped.
But I don't want a 10" screen. I've read comics on a 10" screen, and you either read a bit of the page at a time (frustrating) or you read it at a size 10-20% smaller than print. Which makes it harder to enjoy the art, and harder to read the text. Frankly, I like the Absolute presentation for comic art - I want my comics blown up to a larger size, not shrunk down to a smaller one.
So I went looking for larger tablets. After all, you can buy phones in a variety of sizes - if I can buy a 5.3" phone, surely someone has made a tablet that's larger than 10"?
But so far I'm having no luck. There's _talk_ about 12" and 13" tablets. Toshiba seems to have had a lot of build up for an "Excite 13" - but there's no sign of it ever actually having been released in the US, let alone the UK. Archos _did_ release the FamilyPad, but apparently botched it with an incredibly slow processor and awful screen.
If anyone sees one, do let me know...
