Do you do Digital Comics, do you?

[Cobblepot]

I've never even checked into the digital comics. I don't have an Ipad or Iphone or Ianything....I'm not saying that I will never have anything do do with them (the way things are going, at some time in the near future it may be the only way to read comics anyway)....but at this time I like hard copy in my hand.

+1.

It saddens me that my son will probably never see a new comic in print.

 

[Number 6]

+1.

It saddens me that my son will probably never see a new comic in print.

How old is your son? I doubt this will actually be the case.

Anyway, I'm thinking of looking into digital a lot more for DC. I like my LCS, but the lure of lower prices for DC singles (I can power through the month wait). I may even look into more for trades, too, since I'm considering getting the next version of the Kindle Fire, and DC is providing a solid collection.

This is my first post, too. There wasn't any real introduction thread as far as I can see, so I just jumped right in.

 

[wiegeabo]

So, if anyone wants an inexpensive droid tablet to read comics on, here's what you do:

Buy a Refurb Nook from overstock.com for $149 ($139 if you use the $10 off link)

Buy a microsd card. The cheaper the card, the better. So get a class 2 or class 4. And get at least an 8GB card.

You can then install the Droid 2.3 OS (Gingerbread) on the sd card and boot from it in your Nook. (I'm leaving the steps I took out for brevity)

You now have an inexpensive 7inch Droid tablet. And if you take the card out and reboot, it's back to being a Nook (because you didn't touch the Nook's internal memory).

When you plug the 'Driod' into your computer's USB, it will show up as an external drive, and you can drop whatever files you want on there.


I've been trying out some comics, and it's so nice. Plus, it's a Droid, so I can download apps from the Google app store and use it as a basic tablet. Apps like Nook. And I save so much money, that I chipped in for Overstock's 2 year protection plan. So now, if basically anything happens to my Nook, they're replace it or give me a full refund.


Suck on THAT Applecare!

 

[Cosmic]

I'm now buying digital comics. Don't know when or if I will go back to buying/ordering stacks of issues again.

 

[Anubis]

So, if anyone wants an inexpensive droid tablet to read comics on, here's what you do:

Buy a Refurb Nook from overstock.com for $149 ($139 if you use the $10 off link)

Buy a microsd card. The cheaper the card, the better. So get a class 2 or class 4. And get at least an 8GB card.

You can then install the Droid 2.3 OS (Gingerbread) on the sd card and boot from it in your Nook. (I'm leaving the steps I took out for brevity)

You now have an inexpensive 7inch Droid tablet. And if you take the card out and reboot, it's back to being a Nook (because you didn't touch the Nook's internal memory).

When you plug the 'Driod' into your computer's USB, it will show up as an external drive, and you can drop whatever files you want on there.


I've been trying out some comics, and it's so nice. Plus, it's a Droid, so I can download apps from the Google app store and use it as a basic tablet. Apps like Nook. And I save so much money, that I chipped in for Overstock's 2 year protection plan. So now, if basically anything happens to my Nook, they're replace it or give me a full refund.


Suck on THAT Applecare!

I got a better idea.

Wait outside a Best Buy for somebody to walk out with one, club them over the head with a nine iron, walk away with a free android tablet.

 

[CConn]

Took you a whole 5 weeks to come up with that one, Nubis?