Tried: The Japanese Manga-to-Kindle – Engadget German

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Japanese devour tons of Manga. This memory, in turn, are extremely hungry, so that Amazon recently launched in Japan, an edition of the Kindle Paperwhite specifically for Manga. The new Manga model with 32GB of eight Times more memory than the most expensive Kindle, the Oasis. According to Amazon, that’s enough for about 700 Comics. Also, the Manga should be able to turn the pages-Kindle 33 percent faster than the normal Paperwhite. Our Japan-based colleague Mat Smith has tried out the New, and the thing with the page-turning worked, in his opinion, already quite well:

All other specifications remains the same, even the weight is unchanged. Although the price is higher, but still in the green area: The Manga Edition will cost with the equivalent of 140 euros, almost 17 euros more than the

Standard unit. Maybe some of us wonder now, as an E-Ink screen without the colors for Comics suitable? In Japan, this is not a Problem, because most of the Manga without colors get along. And so the Manga will continue to be the Kindle, then also the Japanese market reserved. Ultimately, he is but only for Fans with a huge Manga collection makes sense, says Mat. He have about 25 pieces, and for the memory enough space of his old Paperwhite loose.