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Here is a quick and easy how-to guide for where to read manga to your heart’s content, including on a budget!

As the U.S. manga market continues to grow, it’s exciting to see more and more readers begin to explore the medium and find stories that they love. But when a whole new category of books is suddenly opened up to you, there are also some practical matters to consider. In this particular case, the questions of how and where to read manga are some of the top issues new readers are often curious about. So, to answer these questions, here is a quick and easy how-to guide for where to read manga to your heart’s content!

One of the first things manga consumers will want to consider is whether you want to read physical volumes or if you want to go digital. Because manga are so quick to read, and many , committing to physical definitely has logistical challenges. Those volumes will add up very quickly, and who has the space for all that? My personal advice is to consume most of your manga digitally, and you can reserve your physical shelf space for only those very favorite titles, if you’d like. Besides, there are also plenty of manga out there that are only released digitally, or that are released digitally a few months or so prior to getting released in print.

Now that you’ve decided to take the leap into the manga world, there’s still one thing you must do before getting to the actual reading part: deciding what manga, of the infinite choices out there, to read in the first place! There are so many choices out there: how is one supposed to know where to begin?

Now that we’ve determined what to read, it’s time for the most important question: where do we go to read it? There are various options out there, many of which are highlighted in our other posts about the and the . Today, I’ll specifically discuss three strategies for reading manga digitally.