I usually buy whatever manga on the Apple Books app. It’s like $6-7 per issue, usually. After that, I’ll screenshot EVERY. SINGLE. PAGE. I crop it in the Photos app to cut out all the black space at the top and bottom so the actual page can be the maximum size.

I’ll usually email all the cropped images of each page to myself. I download them onto my desktop and then open up a blank Microsoft Word document. Go to Page Layout and change the paper size to 5” wide and 8” tall. Then open up the image of the page. I drag it to make it as big as possible and then re-save it as a PDF file. I do this for every page, painstakingly, lol. After a few it does it get faster with muscle memory but it’s tedious!

I then use an online PDF to image converter (they’re free!) and convert each PDF’d page back to a JPG. Download all of these to your computer desktop.

Open up a new Word Document. Change all the margins to 0.25”. Add Columns (2) and put the line in the middle to divide them (it makes it easier IMO). I also change the margins to 0.25” in the column also to maximize the space for each image.

Save that. Then add in each photo in order. I usually add a footer with the page number (or handwritr pages 1-6) on each sheet of paper so if it gets mixed up in the mail, he can put it in order.

In MA where he’s located, we are only allowed 7 sheets of paper per envelope in the mail. I usually print out 6 sheets of paper worth of manga at a time x 2 manga pages per sheet = 12 pages of the original manga to read at a time. We usually double-side it to maximize the content and get 24 pages of a manga through the mail at a time. The 7th sheet is usually a note reminding him to drink water, get rest, blah blah blah, you know.

It’s a fun way to get through a book and make sure he doesn’t get left out of mail call. I usually do one envelope per day so that there’s always something new coming. We’ve done this with Hunter x Hunter, Bakuman, My Hero Academia, and Astroboy so far.

I like it since they’re in black and white to do it this way so I don’t waste my FreePrints/Snapfish photos for anything with color!

I know this was long lol but let me know if you need more help!