r/calvinandhobbes • u/rjziggo13 • 19d ago

Portable Compendium digital editions

Did anyone else see that there is going to be a digital release of the complete portable compendium set in digital format?!

I am very excited that this is happening as you can get a good digital set of Calvin and Hobbs. The first three treasuries have been de-listed for quite some time and the formatting on them was kind of goofy. There was/is also a complete Calvin Hobbs PDF that’s floating around on the Internet that I find the colors to be off.

It’ll be nice to have Calvin and Hobbes on the go!

And unashamedly, this will be the fifth time that I have purchased the entire run of Calvin and Hobbes.

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u/mikeainslie69420 19d ago

Where did you find this out?

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u/rjziggo13 19d ago

Initially I received an email from Amazon with a new from Bill Watterson (I follow his author page) then I checked the other major retailers who sell digital books and saw they are all up for preorder.

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u/boogerbuttcheek 19d ago

Could you share the email please? I’m interested.

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u/calvinandhobbes-ModTeam 18d ago

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u/Elenamartinez46 17d ago

Checked on Google Playbooks and they will habe the books availible October 6th!! Whoooooo im SO excited for this!!!

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u/okbruh_panda 19d ago

I'd also be curious to see how they find a way to make it subscription based....

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u/PacDan16 18d ago edited 18d ago

I just found this out recently and was pleasantly surprised. Of course I've heard about the printed versions like all you probably have or heard of.

Previously, I discovered you would have to purchase most of the books on Kindle and then only two were only on the Nook store for some reason, it was very strange and unexplained. It's good to have all the books there now for all to access easily. The way the publisher spilt them up across MORE books than the physical version, I guess to reflect the individual lower pricing is pretty stupid and altogether way too expensive, but overall of course the content is gonna be great. Nowadays, for digital reading, for anyone unaware, this is something worth learning about -- I'd highly recommend ripping your legally acquired book files and putting them through Kindle Comic Converter (outputs files for ANY e-reader), it optimizes the file and perfectly crops a bunch of wasted white space. I've already used it on several types of comics.. standard comic books, comic strip collections and manga.. it's phenomenal. 

I already bought all the digital books for what I'm pretty sure is the entire run but this is so much better visually on a digital bookshelf and less confusing to navigate that I'll probably just support this release too.

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u/riancb 18d ago

Thanks for letting me know OP! I can’t quite afford $140 at the moment, but it’ll be nice to know what to buy when I can!

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u/PacDan16 18d ago

At least you can buy it in chunks, I just wish it was less volumes 

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u/Elenamartinez46 17d ago

Get them on Google Playbooks 10 bucks each when it comes out