Amazon Japan's Manga-Ready Kindle Has 8 Times the Storage (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:21AM from the affinity-for-manga dept.

Amazon Japan has an unusual challenge with the Kindle: it not only has to cater to your typical bookworm, but to a local fondness for image-heavy (and thus storage-intensive) manga books. What it's going to do? Release a special model just for those readers, apparently. Engadget reports: The company has introduced a manga version of the Kindle Paperwhite with 32GB of storage, or eight times as much space as the run-of-the-mill 4GB model. You could cram every single volume of Asari-chan, Kochikame and Naruto into this e-reader, Amazon says. The manga Kindle is available for pre-order now, with pricing commanding a slight premium over the usual Paperwhite. You're spending about $157 or $118.

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I really don't understand by aslagle · 2016-10-19 03:29 · Score: 4, Insightful

Why wouldn't Amazon market this internationally? It's not like no one outside of Japan likes manga...
I've had to banish my manga collection from my Kindle Voyage because one relatively short manga can take up the space of 100 other books. I'd love to be able to fit them all on my Kindle.