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[Mongrel]

Well, the European stuff is normally printed at a very good size to start. But they have a terrible tradition of no boxed sets or terrible boxed sets in the rare cases they do (For instance, last I knew there has NEVER been an Asterix boxed set, which is just flat-out lunacy. They've had some Omnibuses, but the stories within are generally not in the correct chronological order).

[Thad]

I have a friend who has the iPad app and he blows like $50 a week on the thing.  It looks really good.

I hate reading comics on a computer monitor.  Also, my collection takes up roughly 30 shortboxes and that's a lot of real estate.

So I'm eager to find an ebook solution that I really like.  iPad seems the closest so far but I'm curious about color eInk and other things coming down the pipe.  The tech's changing too fast right now for me to make any investments at this point.

And I'm not going to buy anything with DRM, ESPECIALLY not in a market that's still as fragmented as ebooks are.

[Niku]

Color eInk is the thing that will finally make me break down and get a tablet or eBook reader.  I'm in the iPhone camp already, so I don't really want just the same thing but bigger even if I get tempted now and again.

Also, reading comics is kind of a pain on the iPhone, but I do have a pretty awesome app that uses color context magnification, so you can tap on word bubbles and the text alone gets magnified on the page.  Sadly the creator pissed off Apple over some feature or another with regards to actually getting your comics ON to the phone, so it's no longer available.  Ha ha, iTunes.  :(

[Thad]

Johanna Draper Carlson weighs in.  I find her opinions on piracy tend to match my own -- it's not always unethical, DRM is counterproductive, and the only way to fight piracy is through providing a superior alternative.

The comments thread is pretty good too, up until people start coming in just to insult her.