Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2011 May 22

= May 22 =

Manga on Ebooks?
Does anyone know if any ebooks like the Kindle or the Nook have manga in their libraries for purchase? I ask because my manga collection is getting quite large and it would save me a lot of space, but I can't seem to find good info on if a particular ebook supports it or not. Any information on that would be great. Alternatively, for the manga I already own, is there software I could use to scan the images and put them on an ebook and use them for personal use, or would that be against some sort of copyright law, because I would prefer not having to buy them all again if I wanted to fully convert. 96.234.149.94 (talk) 06:25, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't found the Kindle to be a particularly satisfying way to read comics that were originally designed to be full-page books. (quarter-size Mini-comics work quite well, but how many of those are there?)
 * However, the Amazon Kindle store seems to have 134 titles. I don't read much Manga, so I can't tell if they're big names or not.
 * The Kindle is wonderful for prose novels, but for comics you might have better luck with a more traditional tablet like an iPad or Android tablet. APL (talk) 08:43, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

airlines in fictional universe
What other airlines are there in the fictional universe besides Oceanic Airlines?24.90.204.234 (talk) 06:27, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I can't think of any particular named ones, but in almost any film the airline is ficticious - especially if the aircraft is involved in any kind of incident. Astronaut (talk) 08:06, 22 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The airline in the Airplane! movies is Trans-American. 216.93.212.245 (talk) 20:18, 22 May 2011 (UTC)


 * We do have Category:Fictional airlines, but it's no use for this. Google threw up a few lists.  Lost apparently had a few fictional airlines: Oceanic, Pan-Pacific, Austral, Ajira - see LostPedia. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:45, 23 May 2011 (UTC)


 * There is not just one "fictional universe". Every work of fiction has its own "fictional universe", unless someone's work of fiction intentionally occurs in the same fictional universe as some other piece of fiction.  For example, Lost and Executive Decision are two separate works which each has its own fictional universe.  On the other hand, I think what you meant to write was "What other fictional airlines exist besides Oceanic Airlines", in which case Colapeninsula's first link is the type of answer you want.  (Clicking that category link, though, surprisingly there are only 3 articles listed, and only 1 is in the vein that the original poster wanted.  Probably because most fictional airlines are not notable enough for their own Wikipedia article.  I think the topic would be better served by List of fictional airlines, which could list Trans-American and other fake airlines that were just mentioned or shown in a work of fiction.)  Comet Tuttle (talk) 16:49, 23 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Pan American World Airways (PanAm) was a very real, very large USA-based airline until 1991. Back when PanAm was real, they were geniuses at product placement, for example appearing as the interplanetary airline in the movie 2001.  PanAm went bust so totally & thoroughly in 1991 that even attempts to revive the PanAm name as a brand for other airlines have failed.  One quirky result, though, is that lots of TV shows & movies still use PanAm as their stand-in airline, especially when the scene is supposed to be set in the 20th century, or when something's happening on the flight that no real-world airline would want associated with their brand.  --M @ r ē ino 18:50, 25 May 2011 (UTC)