Back in the good old days when I first got my iPod Touch, I was trying to use Touch as a portable manga reader by loading JPEG files (scanned manga) in Touch using Apple's photo sync. That DID NOT work well because Apple decide to do some OPTIMIZATION on those JPEG so that they all have reasonably small file size. That totally mess up those Manag JPEG in a way that when you try to zoom those mange pages, instead of seeing cleaner lines, you see more JPEG compression noise.
Now that iPad is released, I tried to do the exact same thing. This time, the result is more acceptable. After all, the iPad screen is bigger. HOWEVER, iTune still optimize the file. So if you have a 2Mb detail scan of a page, don't expect that detail transfer to iPad. If you want to have a free jpeg/photo offline library in your iPad, look for those third party apps to do the job.
Another problem of using Apple Photo view as manga reader is that there's no guarantee of how the JPEG files are being ordered in the photo album. I tried syncing a folder of a book of manga. The file name of files in that folder are the order number (001.jpg, 002.jpg ...) After I synced to iPad, I found at least one file went out of sync, while the rest being ordered decreasingly. So I think eventually we need to wait for a better manga viewer.
This is just the first few days of iPad release, so I am sure that soon there will be much better app available. That's why I don't think people need to RUSH to get an iPad. Just wait til your favorite app release first, like wait for your favorite game release before you get a PS3 or XBox360.
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