I mean, its a terrible excuse when its almost certain that he was just saving the images so he had his own copy of them. Let's not beat around the bush there.

But that's also why these "legitimate" apps will forever be a gamble, if downright worse than just outright piracy. They offer worse service, with retarded "rules" to use them, and then have the nerve to charge you for it. While the scanning and scanlation scene is there providing a service for basically every series you could ever want until the Volumes come out if you want to actually pay for them.

Also, he was reading 100 Kano. They were doing him a favor taking it away from him.