The main Comixology app also got a new look, similar to the Kindle app on the iPad. Now, all purchases go through Amazon’s main site, and work similarly to Kindle purchases. The long-awaited Comixology full integration with Amazon Marketplace arrived last week, removing the dedicated Comixology storefront. But when it’s the largest platform for digital comics, it can be even harder. I’m just annoyed that they shelved something that was working pretty well and tried to cram two completely separate experiences into a single app.Change is hard. I’m not saying things should always be perfect. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting old and I have to squint to see issue numbers on the covers. Given the above problem, this is pretty stupid to not have this feature.

There’s no way to sort when viewing a collection.

Issues will be out of order and titles aren’t even in alphabetical order.

There’s no logical order to the things you add to a collection.

Ignoring all of this, there are problems with adding to collections as well. They can’t add a little metadata to each of their items to say “Saga #29 is a Comic” and “Catch-22 is a Novel”? Then at most all you would have to do is toggle a button. Amazon is a billion dollar company because they are really, really good at logistics. What we need to do is crowdfund an app that plugs into Dropbox and looks like Comixology so we can have our collections private and away from Amazon.īeing able to create collections ignores the point - you shouldn’t have to do anything at all. Grouping of singles and graphic novels in the same series seems to be gone.Īlso, I was reading the Black Panther masterworks when they switched it, and a week later it still has blacked out pages that haven't downloaded.

Obviously all the metadata and guided view, although that looks like it's going to be lost anyway. But then so do quite a few Comixology series. All my humble bundles and other digital comics apps are all going to be in one place and I'm in almost complete control of the layout, it does annoyingly list books 1, 10, 11.

Then I can just download to my phone and read stuff the same, although with guided-view gone I'll now have to spring for a tablet so I can read an entire page at once.

Not the same as Comixology as it doesn't have pictures, but practically the same as everything is filed by series. I've got myself a 2TB Dropbox and I can file all my comics by series in it.

Comixology and kindle