text: Before I got the PB902 I looked everywhere for a good representation of how well comics would transfer to the ereader. Some people say that no ereader works well enough for it and some folks say it's great, some say it's all right enough etc... Well I took a scan of a comic I have and used Calibre to convert it to PDF and put it on the 902 for a side by side comparison. My hope is that it helps those who are thinking about getting the 902 but aren't quite sure about the comic capabilities. Keep in mind 3 things. I've had the 902 for less than 24 hours so far, I've used Calibre a total of 4 times and these pictures don't do it full justice. Is it better than an actually comic book? No. But it's definitely not bad. Not bad at all.
  Last edited by Lester Burnham; 09-28-2011 at 09:46 PM.
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  Looks pretty good. I wanna scan Absolute Sandman but it cost a small fortune and I don't wanna hurt it replica145
  I agree, it seems not bad at all Hekse-Mie
  The DX and the 902/903 have the same screen. I just tried the "Tablet" setting and it's not too bad. It made the file a little larger of course. It made the pages too narrow and long to be able to read a full page at a time also. So, zoom and scroll is a must. I'm not a big fan of that though. I like to read one full page at a time. Seems more natural, comic book like to me. To each their own. I haven't run into any text issues yet so maybe I'll have to adapt and get used to the zoom and scroll method when I do. Comics do look pretty nice when in landscape mode though. "CBR" - 11MB
  Right you are. It is changing the aspect ratio. I honestly hadn't noticed. If you check out the text boxes in the pictures. You can see the difference easily. I've read a number of comics already and to my eye nothing has seemed wonky. Hopefully I'll continue to not notice the aspect change. lol
  They look pretty close to me, so I wouldn't have noticed. Anyway, I have a decent scanner for books, but the scale is slightly different in the vertical and horizontal directions. The scanned pages always come out looking less wide than they should. Maybe this is true for most scanners. If Calibre just happened to change the aspect ratio and make the pages look slightly wider, they could end up looking more like the original book than the unresized scans. So, maybe your process balanced out nicely in the end. rkomar
  Just trying to help those wanting to read comics on an ereader. I'll post more comparisons if I find anything worth noting. So far the PB902 has handled everything I've thrown at it with flying colors....er.. flying b&w. Lester Burnham