Respectively, they stand for Comic Book Zip and Comic Book Rar. The two most common file formats for digital comics are CBZ and CBR. Similarly, some digital publishers save their books as PDFs, and PDF viewers abound on each platform. If you’re just an occasional digital reader, looking at a folder of scans in any image viewer is likely to provide you a perfectly adequate reading experience. The benefit of many users sharing their public domain or scarce vintage books is that we can all fill in a collection that would take many lifetimes to find, let alone afford. And it’s gained significant acceptance through iPads and other tablets.Īt the grass-roots level, collectors have shared scans* of comic books for just as long. I have also created an IFTTT applet that adds any article I bookmark on Medium to Raindrop that I can read later.Over the past 20 years digital comics reading has grown through services like Comixology, DC Universe Infinite and Marvel Unlimited. Pro tip: Raindrop generates a preview of the entire article for some Medium paywall articles. I use it as a bookmark manager, a read-later app, and as a reading app with its Preview mode. Raindrop is a swiss-knife of an app for managing internet links. I add some articles as a bookmark on Raindrop to read later over the weekend. Sometimes, Reeder acts as a filter for selective reading for me. Reeder also has an option to create native feeds via iCloud, but I faced issues while adding some blogs, so fell back to syncing via Feedly. I use Feedly as my primary service where I add, delete, group all the sources (blogs and their URLs), and all the changes are synced directly to Reeder. It syncs with other popular RSS feeds and discovery apps like Feedly, Inoreader, etc. It was an instant buy for me on both Mac and iPad. It's available on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. ![]() As a bonus, it's also one of the most well-designed apps I've come across. It also gives an option to read blogs on the websites thanks to its in-app browser. I can read all those posts within Reeder daily. It helps in keeping track of all the new posts published on blogs that have RSS feeds enabled. Reading Blogs and Articles With Reeder 5 and Raindrop (Mac+iPad)įor keeping updated with all my favourite blogs, I use Reeder 5 as the RSS reader of choice. ![]() But, Goodnotes acts as my primary reading app for PDFs. I use Notability as my note-taking tool with the Apple Pencil. Notability is another alternative to Goodnotes. This helps in case I need to switch back and forth to take notes, copy and paste stuff etc, on the Mac. It also has a macOS app and syncs across devices in the Apple ecosystem. It allows efficient highlighting and scribbling of notes, 'The Half-Blood Prince' style, which makes for a good experience. I use Goodnotes as a good alternative on the iPad for reading PDFs. Occasionally, I end up reading a PDF book, reports or reading material of that nature. ![]() Reading, Highlighting and Annotating PDFs on Goodnotes (iPad) Besides, neither of these have the potential to be as good a travel/commute companion as the Kindle.Ĭurrently reading 'The Psychology of Money' Reading eBooks on the Mac feels like work, so that didn't stick. Or at night as it causes eye-strain even with low brightness. iPad turns out to be too clunky and huge for reading while walking. While toying with the idea of that upgrade, I tried my hands at reading on the Kindle apps on my iPad and Macbook. It was time for an upgrade anyway after all these years. That 6-year-old thing still works fine though. It worked like a charm such as in the metro during the now obsolete ritual of a daily commute. I'd been using Kindle (6th Gen) for the past 6 years or so as my primary device for reading eBooks. Or in the dimly-lit hallway of my tiny apartment. I realized I needed that sweet backlight in my Kindle for reading in bed at night. I recently upgraded to the new Kindle (10th Gen) a few weeks ago. ![]() The stack I use to read eBooks (+PDFs), Blogs and Comics.
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