What’s worse is that the images are blurry. There’s a zoom option but you can’t view a specific panel. Unlike in the mobile apps, you can’t tap on a comic panel to zoom it. The titles you purchase are accessible via Kindle Cloud Reader, which is worse than the built-in and efficient Comixology web reader they had before. Meanwhile, though they said that they’ve already addressed reader complaints back in February, reading on the web app is still not recommended.

It is possible Amazon isn’t yet finished figuring out the whole shebang. In the library alone, you can only see your downloaded titles. Thus I will end this note to say that I found unsubscribing from the service such a non-hassle that I don’t recall exactly what steps I took, and this alone compels me to salute it.The app, while providing a great reading experience, feels bare-bones.

Whatever: Comixology Unlimited is still a pretty good service if you don’t mind attaching yet another Amazon-subsidiary leech to your pocketbook. I’d still rather make use my public library for reading comics collections! And, reader, I started to type “But with that option sadly unavailable for now…” but now I see that NYPL is starting to offer curbside pickup for holds. I wrote about how I explored the earliest adventures of Nexus this way, last November - and the hesitancy I felt, at first, with using this service at all. This creates a dizzyingly wide and satisfyingly deep comics-sampler covering many genres. Many series, I find, make the first volume of two of their back catalogs available through Unlimited. With my 11-inch iPad and an Unlimited subscription, I feasted quite well for months. I do recommend Unlimited for any sometimes-or-more comics fan who owns a decent tablet. I imagine that Amazon will be pleased to resume accepting my six bucks per month once it returns. My interest in comics comes and goes, and it happens to have faded out for the present. After using and enjoying it for most of the past nine months or so, I’ve let my subscription to Comixology’s “Unlimited” service lapse.

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