Comics on Kindle Unlimited

The Kindle reading app on the Fire still sucks.  At it's best it loses your place and defaults to the library screen instead of the actual text.  I thought the absurd load times were because of my wifi, but even at 100 mbs it can take several minutes to load a single title.

But once you get the title loaded, the comics are perfectly readable, with some adjustments.  If you tap the font size button (aA) it gives you the option for endless scroll on landscape.  This allows you to read the title on landscape mode without a magnifying glass.  If you're so inclined, the images pinch and zoom better than with magazines, and you have the option to load a panel at a time.

The selection may or not justify the subscription cost (currently $10/mo for Kindle Unlimited, $7/mo for comixology).  As of this writing, DC has placed their most mainstream titles for the last five years or so in KU, with fewer Marvel titles, so Marvel Unlimited is still better for those titles.

The KU titles are grouped by trade paperback titles, so you'd look up titles like "Batman (2011-2016) Vol. 1: The Court of Owls" rather than the issue numbers.  Definitely cost effective for DC fans - a KU subscription paid for itself in about twenty minutes of reading.

Speaking of subscriptions, if you're interested in trying out Kindle Unlimited, consider doing so through this link to slide a buck or two my way.