From the article:
Crunchyroll announced during Sony’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference on Monday that it will launch a new manga app named Crunchyroll Manga later this year as a premium add-on to its subscription service. The app will launch first in English in the United States and Canada, but other language options and web browser integration are planned.
Thank you for the info. I might be able to live with the colors not being perfect. I just like the fact that some manga and light novels have an occasional full color page though most is in black and white.
Bummed to hear about the hardware support because the Boox products look really good.
I personally like the color. I had an old e reader before this one that was much smaller and I was using a friends b/w kaleido3 for a bit but decided to try the color. I read tons of manga and it’s nice to have color pages have some color to them, the occasional time I’ll read a webtoon, etc
An important thing I forgot to mention though is that the color has drawbacks though. The way kaleido3 color panels work is basically that they’re the black and white kaleido3 panels with a color filter over them. This filter means that you lose some contrast, brightness, and the screen isn’t as “white”.
The last point actually works for me as it looks closer to paper stock. The first two points are a bit of an annoyance potentially. I didn’t really care because my old reader was from like 2010 and this was still a tremendous upgrade. But when I put it side by side with my friends b/w and the same content I could definitely see the difference. It’s not huge but it’s noticeable. If you read stuff with really complex shading the contrast might be more bothersome.
The brightness is basically he can read his with the front light off in more situations and I need mine on more regularly because the screen appears too dark, which is kind of a bummer bc imo e ink looks it’s absolute best without a front light. But this depends on where you read. If you read outside in sunlight you’ll never need the front light, if you read in bed you’ll need it 100% of the time with both.
And one really nice thing is that their software support is actually really good. They have feedback built into the OS and it’s actually useful, basically a ticketing system and they actually respond to it. I’ve actually had suggestions get added to OS updates via this route. Although they’ve added ai bot responses to this lately and getting an actual persons response takes longer. that’s a bummer but ultimately they do still respond and are helpful on that front