How do you read your manga?
| Well, when I was a kid, I used to purchase the manga from a bookstore, but now I only read the manga online. |
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| I mostly buy them, cause i find reading online irritating. But i read it online if either, i cant find the book or i just wanna see if i like it without wasting my money. |
| I read manga online, still buy them though. Normally order online because I live in a village. The volumes look great on display and comes in handy when internet stops working lol. :) I love collecting things. Unfortunately I haven't been able to afford anything this month so that sucks. |
| I buy ones that I want for the most part. Other than that, I go to the library and check out 2 - 5 at a time, but my local library(ies) don't have many full series as far as I know. I read some scans, but only the first chapter of most so I can see if they're interesting. THEN, if they are, I go buy them. If I'm serious about a series but it's not at the library or Borders, I will buy online, but I've only done that once. Kind of a mix of them all. |
| Read it online. Sometimes buy those series that I like. |
| I download completed series over the web and read it using the viewer slideshow. I like the BG dark. Leaving the scans easy to read. |
| I read online. |
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| I read online. They recently put an anime store here but it's a bit expensive for me right now... |
| All of the above |
| I get licensed releases from the library and download scanlations of unlicensed series (never reading online, though, since downloads are better quality and there's no waiting for pages to load and I find navigation easier and quicker). When I really like a series, usually 8/10 or above, and it's available in the USA, I buy it online: usually used, but new if I'm determined to support it (such as with 70s shoujo, which needs all the support that it can get). |
| I'm more into anime than manga, but if I wanna read something, I go online and read it there~ my weekly shounen :P~ |
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| Read scans online. (your vote) Well, that's what I normally do :D but I do buy online and sometimes there are some volumes in the library. |
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| Scans online, if I REALLY like it, I might buy it. |
| Online, and the volumes that I particularly enjoy I buy at the bookstore. |
| I buy manga from the bookstore, but I usually read scans online... |
| I read manga online first and if I like it I buy it because reading scans isn't ideal (you can't turn a few pages back easily or re-read a part from previous volumes or chapter). |
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| I buy mine. I only read manga online if it isn't licensed in English. |
MisaTange said: I read manga online, mainly because there's no local manga or book store anywhere near me. Actually that's the ONLY solution for me since there is NO local manga store in my country at all. And I can't order them online either e_<" Heck I wonder if the people living here know what manga is. |
| chose other cause i download the scans and read them and i also buy manga at the bookstore |
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| I've usually read online. If its licensed in english then I might buy. |
XxAlicexX said: MisaTange said: I read manga online, mainly because there's no local manga or book store anywhere near me. Actually that's the ONLY solution for me since there is NO local manga store in my country at all. And I can't order them online either e_<" Heck I wonder if the people living here know what manga is. I have the same problem :( you can't find manga where i live, so I read online. actually, i was very surprised to know that you can find manga in the library. |
| I buy most of my manga from a bookstore or online, but I do read scanslations occasionally. |
Allytoon said: thisI buy mine. I only read manga online if it isn't licensed in English. |
| I try to buy whatever I like out of what avalible in store, but scans are so convenient, when it hasn't been put out in english yet. |
| I love purchasing my manga not only do I prefer to read manga in book form but it's really nice to actually go out and shop for manga. Plus I download all my Anime so I like to balance that out by putting back into the community by purchasing my Manga. |
| mostly read online scanlations, but sometimes I download them and put them on my iPod if I go somewhere |
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| I read online, if I lived in Japan and could understand japanese then i would buy them from a bookstore :D |
| Download to pc and read with CDisplay, high quality FTW. |
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| The second. Rarely the first |
| I voted for 'Read scans online' but I download a lot too. Also, I bought some through the net when the series was licenced 'cause to purchase in the bookstore is impossible here where I live. The first time I've seen some manga is being sold here was a few months ago in a new department store. But even so, there was only a few volumes from three or four series... |
| with something to eat |
| I read everything online, I also download and read on my PC/laptop xD tho if I really like something and it's licensed I'll buy it :] |
| I try to read as much manga as I can from the library, but if I don't have an access to one, I read it online. |
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| If it's not licensed and it's fairly short, I'll read it online, sure, no other way to get it. But there's something about having a physical book in your hand that I really like, so I'll do a mix of everything else. The wait sometimes can be fun, anxiously awaiting the next volume! And if it's too painful, I'll go online if I must. Libraries are great for test driving, saves me a lot of money in the long run while I don't mind taking a risk since I'm borrowing it for free. But I have no problems with used bookstores, a rather large portion of my collection is used but in good shape and it costs a fraction of what a new one would cost, so why not? |
| I do all but I do buy a lot of used manga if ebay cuz its soo cheap ^^ |
| Recently started playing a bit of COD again (change of pace) but inbetween matches I read manga I get from the library. Reading Fruits Basket at the moment, have most volumes (missing a few later ones) and it works out pretty well. |
| I read manga online seeing as there's no 'official' english translations of the manga I want to read. I am learning japanese so I should be able to purchase the japanese versions in a few years... =P |
| i read them online because book stores doesn't have the ones that i want to read. |
| I used to mostly read online scans, but now I also download manga. |
| scans. i used to read them in the bookstore (the library unfortunately is too slow for my liking) but i couldn't wait for the next ones and i eventually found the scans. and i search around a lot for underrated mangas which aren't usually available at bookstores and such. |
| disclaimer: i don't own any of the graphics/pictures. |
| 8 out of 10 purchases, I would say, come from bookstore visits. I live very close to several cities and several malls so I have easy access to check out manga and select what I want to read. Usually stuff I've heard of but unsure if I'd have an interest in I'll sit down and read the first manga or two and then decide if I want to purchase it. I've grown accustomed to finding out of print manga online every now and then, and buying those when I feel the price is right. They are usually used, which doesn't bug me as long as I have them and I can read them at least a few times. I seldom visit the library, but for a while I was browsing their manga selection and was surprised to come across some series. I did read some of them - usually they don't have a full series, or part of it is checked out at any given time - so I will visit the library again when I'm super poor and crave more manga. Otherwise, I rarely read scans online. Not even as much as I visit the library. I just don't know what it is, maybe that fact that it's actually in a book somewhere bugs me into thinking, "Man, I could get away from the computer, relax, and read this somewhere else!" That is, unless it's scanlated. Then I really don't have a choice. But usually I'm reading licensed stuff in the bookstore, or stuff I've purchased from the bookstore. |
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| I prefer buying the manga(at bookstore) that sounds interesting to me. I usually end up liking it. So I continue the series. On rare occasions if I don't like it I'll just give it to someone. I don't really enjoy reading scans online. |
| I read online until just a few weeks ago, then I began to download them. And god, I love that. No more waiting time for the damn site to load another picture. I read like 14 chapters in the time I would have read 10 on the net. |
| library.. i would buy, but i can never find the one i WANT to buy |
| I own a few manga, but I mostly read online because none of my favorite series are out in english yet -.- |
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