THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: chronovore on July 01, 2011, 07:31:13 AM
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I'm looking for a comic reader app which allows using locally stored .cbz and .cbr files. I thought Comixology's Comics.app would do it, but /no/.
Any ideas?
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I have Lindyreader on my Windows Phone: http://www.wpcentral.com/how-to-read-comic-books
Probably my most used app to date, perhaps there is something similar on IOS?
Google search: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&site=webhp&source=hp&q=cbr+cbz+reader+iphone&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=c924775ad1dac27b&biw=1920&bih=962
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Comic Zeal
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Comic Zeal
Definitely Comic Zeal. It works great and I have made fine use of this app on the daily train rides to and from work.
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WOOT!
Comic Zeal on iPhone is free, and loaded the .cbr files I fed it. THANKS!
If I ever get an iPad, this is the first thing I'll buy for it.
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...and the last comic-related thing you'll ever pay for
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Well, yeah. Maybe. If I can find decent deals, I'll probably buy them legit. It's just that most places seem to want to charge the same as for a paper comic, despite there being no collectors' value, nor loan-ability, and specialized hardware is needed to read it.
So maybe not.
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That was my reaction with Comixology today. Very slick reading feature which seems to look for panels, auto-zoom and frame them to match orientation, and appears aware of speech bubbles as well, so it fairly smartly moves from bubble to bubble, framed fairly naturally within the panel. Really impressive.
So I rummaged their catalog for Free items, came away with some meh comics, one winner (100 Girls), and one utter drivel (Dark Mists -- christ, somebody thought they could just write 1930s Japan without a single lick of research or experience; it's like Shi, but less cerebral :yuck ) -- at which point I realized, hey, I have a bunch of comics I've been meaning to read. How can I do that?
Comic Zeal. WOoooooooOOOOOOooo!