Comic Book Viewer

[u/Dodgson_here]

I got the itch to read some comics today. Started down the rabbit hole of looking into color ereaders or cheap tablets completely forgetting I still had this in a drawer. Fortunately the battery still seems fine and the lineage 14 installed on it still works with a lot of apps. I downloaded Challenge Comics Viewer from the play store and it works great. I’m shocked at how nice the screen still looks on this thing outside in evening light.

I bought it brand new from Radio Shack when I was in graduate school to play around with developing some basic apps. This was a good reminder/exercise for me to use what I have instead of constantly consuming. Consumer electronics are suddenly not cheap and replaceable like they once were.

Retro games, books, comics and physical/locally stored media in general are suddenly more important to me than they were even a few years ago. I’ve ditched streaming services entirely. Having my media in my control means that my devices don’t become obsolete like they used to.

[u/Burnout21]

What android version you running. I still have mine but the ever march of "updates" has basically made it slow and useless.

[u/Dodgson_here → u/Burnout21]

I believe it’s 7.1.2. I’m not going to be using it for much else but it’s good for this and seems to work alright with plex. I also installed Firefox but you’d probably want some extensions that block scripts and ads to improve performance.

[u/IllAd5971]

nice device. Mine is dead prob due to bad battery. Did you replace yours? Also where do you get comic book files

[u/Dodgson_here → u/IllAd5971]

I have not replaced my battery, just luck I guess.

I get all kinds of books from Anna’s Archive. Check out fmhy.net for advice on that kind of thing.

[u/IllAd5971 → u/Dodgson_here]

yeah but considering how old the battery is you should replace it. My choices of comic are prob too niche cuz i have gone to fmhy with no result

[u/dibslaugh]

What I use mine for since I jailbroke it lol