Hey there, everyone, today I present to you Volumes 1 and 2 of STONe by HIROMOTO Sin-ichi.
These are 300dpi scans from the out-of-print English edition which was released by TokyoPop in 2004. The original Japanese version was released two years before that, in 2002. It seems they no longer hold the licence to it, and I haven't seen these volumes scanned & released on the web anywhere before, so I figured I'd share my copies with everyone.
I didn't want to de-bind my books and ruin them forever, so I simply put them as flat as I could on the scanner bed and scanned them in basic two-page format. I rotated & cropped them as best I could, and also did a bit of clean-up, but didn't make the black levels too dark, in order to preserve a lot of the dark-grey details in the artwork.
Note: the files are in .cbz format, which is "comic book zip" format. The files work exactly like a regular zip archive, except that they can also store metadata about the comic. They should be able to be read by any comic book reader program, but can also be extracted like a normal zip file.