Fucking bitter salad...

I fucking hate tablets. I'm trying to decide which device would suit my digital comic needs the best and I am losing all of my hair trying to decipher the pro/con bullshit. Before you start, I know an iPad would be the best choice, but it's outside of my price range. I'm looking for something in the $200 range that I can read comics on and maybe play some Angry Birds. I want a garden where the comics grow and I don't go broke trying to read them. There is no fence in this garden. If I want a tree that blooms both Comixology and Graphicly apps, then my garden had better be fertile enough to grow it. I don't want bugs in my garden eating up my comic reading experience. I am going back and forth between two different gardens because I'm making a salad. A fucking comic book salad! I'm making a salad and I don't have enough lettuce to get a garden that is nice enough to support every app and function that I like on my salad.

See? This is why I hate digital comics! They make my brain seize up and I end up rattling off comic related salad metaphors!

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......ok. I think it's all out of my system.

As someone who hasn't really figured out this digital comic thing, deciding between a Nook Color and a Kindle Fire is becoming an overwhelming endeavor. I like the Fire because I can run Comixology on it, but I hear that the Fire is buggy. I hear the Nook is less buggy, but you are restricted to the apps that can be bought through Barnes & Noble. Then I also heard about this Idolpad Tablet that is only $100 and has everything I need, but that seems too good to be true. Also, the iPad 3 is coming soon, which means the iPad 2 will be dropping in price, but it's still twice the price of the Kindle or Nook. Then I start doubting that going digital is for me. I've always thought that, but I considered biting the bullet and giving it a try. I fear change. I will always buy print for certain comics, but I don't know what route to take.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Another reason why digital comics suck

I'm speaking mostly of the Big 2 publishers, and higher tier ones. Another reason why digital comics at full cover price is unthinkable is that the publisher is not distributing these books through Diamond and eventually through the retailers. The basic idea behind retail sales is that the retailer pays a certain amount that is less than the selling(cover) price. By selling the comic at the cover price, the retailer makes a small profit. The cost that the retailers pay for all of the orders and preorders needs to cover the cost that the publishers pay to produce and print the comic. When the publisher doesn't need to print the comics, it costs less to produce them, and when they don't need to sell the comics to a distributor that, in turn, needs to sell the comics to a retailer, it costs even less than less to get the content to the consumer. To charge more than you charge the distributor for product that you can provide directly to the consumer, is milking us for more money.
My point is, publishers make more money by providing digital content to consumers by charging full cover price. So why not be satisfied with making the same amount of money by spending less to get that content to the consumer and pass that savings onto them? Because they are greedy bastards that think that we can't figure out this simple derivative.
I will continue to buy my comics at a retailer and enjoy owning a physical product until digital content can be made worth my while. I don't mind waiting.

Digital comics - Why I refuse

I have collected comics for years. I have hundreds of dozens of comics. I love having comics. So why would I want to pay for comics that I don't get to have as a part of my collection. I see the purpose of buying books that can be read digitally, but a comic is a physical commodity. For some very specific reasons for why the digital format just doesn't appeal to me ad a collector.

1. I can't collect digital comics.
I can read them, but I can't put it in a longbox when I'm done. I like seeing the legions of bags and boards that I have stored and horded away. Why would I forego the thrill of collecting? Which leads me into my next problem.

2. No hunt.
The hunt is the greatest thrill when it comes to comics. Sometimes I like going home disappointed, because then I thirst for it even more. There's no merit in scoring that comic that is sold out at every shop in town. Another segue here.

3. No need for a comic shop.
I like going to the comic shop. I get to talk to other people about comics and browse various covers and trades and figures and such that would otherwise go unseen and never peek my interest. I can't look through a comic to see if I like it. Leading me, yet again, into the next point.

4. I can't sell shitty digital comics on eBay.
I bought Teen Titans #1, read it, hated it, and sold it for profit on eBay in a matter of three hours. I can't sell a comic that I bought in a digital format. I'll be stuck with it forever. The full price of a comic down the drain, never to be recouped, which leads me to one last very valid point.

5. Digital comics are full cover price.
What the hell? This is like paying for decorative lattice or a golden calf on Farmville. I am literally paying for a commodity that is virtually unlimited to the provider. When I buy a printed comic, I get a physical item for my money. I hate the idea of paying for the right to look at something. Once, I paid a dollar at the Larimer County Fair to look at a 1100 lb pig. I felt dirty and used afterwards, and that's how I would feel if I read a comic and couldn't bag and board it and add it to my collection. What these publishers need to do is sell the digital comics at a discounted price. I'd pay to read the ongoing stories of my favorite superheroes for, oh, a buck a comic. Then if I enjoyed the story and artwork, I would probably purchase the print copy. BOOM! You just made more money, Marvel and DC. Better yet, offer me a trade promotion that includes an entire story arc consisting of five to six issues for $8-$10 bucks. BOOM! You just made money on me. It's that simple. I don't really care about the so-called convenience of reading comics on an iPhone. I don't have one. Offer me a decent deal on comics that I can read without actually owning, and you can have my money. Until then, several of your comics will continue to get cut from my pull list due to budget issues, and if you think you can get $5 out of me for 22 pages of Wolverine and The X-Men and 10 pages of Chris Evans selling me Orbit that I don't have the pleasure of dipping in acetone when I'm done, you're going to be disappointed. I wonder if I get the 8-page preview of Castle with my overpriced digital copy.

In conclusion, until someone presents a valid argument as to why I should forego my print comics and buy digital, I'm staying with my print versions.