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Originally Posted by Balerion
Sorry for the delayed reply... you've probably tested it out by now and answered your own question, but...
yes... CBZs work on a kindle without doing anything to them.
I'm yet to test whether its better to resize the images (see here or do a search for MANGLE) before using them, but they work fine. I guess resizing them would help bring the file size down a bit (eg. Scott Pilgrim vols 1-6 is 570MB in total, without resizing), because the "working symbol" at the top of the screen can take a little while (5-10 seconds) to load and index the CBZ when they are big files... but that doesn't worry me much... the files work fine once they've loaded (except for what I mentioned before, in that when opening a CBZ, the last image can appear in the side margins... MENU and BACK quick refresh solves that one-off glitch though)
Also, when reading a CBZ on your Kindle, if you click MENU, you'll get the standard image viewer options like ENABLE/DISABLE FULL SCREEN, STOP/START DITHERING etc... although... I have found that when I reopen a CBZ comic and it is set to FULL SCREEN, I'll still have the top titlebar up... all it means is that you have to disable and then re-enable the full screen viewing to fix it... another little glitch, but who cares?! kindles can view CBZ comics... it's frakking awesome  |
Actually (at least on my K3) you do not need to rename to .CBZ - .zip works just fine. None of the sites I've seen that describe Kindle's picture viewer mention the fact that the images can be packaged in a .zip file, and they all say you need to create a 'pictures' folder and put the images in a subfolder. But a subfolder in 'documents' works and of course .zip is a better way to package since 1) it saves space and 2) you can actually delete the .zip as with any other item (when put unzipped in a subfolder, you can delete the item but it does not delete the files, and Alt,z restores the item).
And in addition to the menu options, note that the Aa menu lets you change orientation, view at full resolution (Actual Size = true), and set different Scale options (when Actual Size is 'no'). I find 'fit height' works especially well and lets you pan large images with the joystick/5way.
Some shortcut keys:
'f' toggles full screen, a little more convenient than using the menu.
'r' rotates image 1/4 turn CCW and then back
'q' zooms in (when not in Actual Size mode)
'w' zooms out (")
'e' reset zoom (")
'c' toggle Actual Size
When viewing manga in Actual Size, it helps to set the menu option to 'Anchor to Top Right' so that you start out in the correct corner.
Enabling 'pan to next page' lets you navigate to previous and next page with the 5way up and down. Especially useful if you are already panning in Actual Size mode.
At any rate, this is awesome! I've been messing around with Mangle but with these new (to me anyway) discoveries think now it is not worth the trouble. I am still interested in using PDF as image container (annotation, bookmarks, page numbers, reading progress, contrast adjustment), Mangle may help with that in terms of creating images that are the right size to avoid rescaling distortion - but I have to modify the code to do this.
It would be nice if Amazon actually finished the picture viewer to retain full screen mode and fix the redraw issues, and removed this feature from its 'experimental' ghetto.