10-14-2012, 05:38 AM | #1 |
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Kobo Glo and Manga/Comics (CBZ&CBR Discussion)
Hello to anyone, I have not yet got the Kobo Glo and I wish to ask some question to the owners if possible, please!
1) Can be hidden all the instrument bars for reading comics and manga in real full screen mode when reading cbr/cbz files? 2) Can the Kobo Glo be used in "Landscape Mode" while reading cbr/cbz files? Thanks -a lot- for your great kindness my friends! |
10-14-2012, 08:47 AM | #2 |
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1) Yes, nothing but the picture is displayed. You have to tap in the middle of the screen to make the options appear.
2) Yes, you can do landscape, but if you do that with a portrait page, it's automatically set to fill the full width of the screen, and it shows you the bottom of the page. Problem is that's the minimal zoom, and you can't get to the top of the page : you can't move the picture by sliding with your finger, and swiping gets you to the next/previous page, bottom half again. Well I don't know if it's very clear, but to sum up, landscape is made for landscape pages. Also to note : you can't turn page from a zoomed page, you have to zoom out first. |
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I opened the one comic I have, changed to landscape and zoomed in a little. When I dragged the page to see the edge, and then dragged again, it went to the next page. |
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My bad, you're right. It works with CBR / CBZ files, and pretty well in fact since it keeps the zoom level through the pages. Would be even better if it kept the position of the zommed image too, but they would have to find another gesture for turning page then. With PDF files though, if I'm not mistaked again, you can't turn pages when zoomed in.
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@Papi I'm very sorry because of my english that in not really good, can I ask you to repeat please?
Do you mean that in landscape mode the kobo glo can not zoom, and can not do "top down vertical pan"? So is it lock like this example and is it impossible to move anymore? Thx to you all for support! |
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At the end do you belive guys (and ladies) that this kobo glo is a good reader for manga and comics? Thanks to you all!!! |
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10-14-2012, 02:01 PM | #10 |
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@greens : with a CBZ file (PDF handling is different), if I switch to landscape, the lower half of your image would take the whole screen (kind of "fit to width'"), and that is the minimal zoom so I can't get what your image shows. Also, again from full screen, I can't scroll to the top of the image which makes it unusable for me, but maybe I missed something. Gestures to go to next / previous pages work, but I found no way to get to the upper half of the page.
The resolution is good enough for regular size mangas to be read in portrait mode (for me at least) anyway. |
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@Papi so I have understand that if you zoom a little bit you can scroll the whole image top down. I hope that I have understand well what @9littlebees was explain to me, because my level of realizing things in english in not that great level... I mean... XD by the way! friends! and thanks for your help! |
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It's fine for regular manga, even without resizing everything. I do that anyways, to reduce file size. Unless you only read items with two-page spreads.
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No worries on responding to your PM, greens. Whether it is "fine" enough to read in the standard vertical / portrait position really depends on the manga / comic you're reading. If the text is large enough, no problem.
Otherwise (as I recommended in the PM), you should consider a 7-10 inch Android tablet, as decent Chinese ones can be had for not a lot of money and there are some excellent CBR / CBZ format reader apps that are available either for free or for reasonably cheap (eg. Moon+ Reader). |
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Hey friends listen to this story, yesterday I wrote at the Kobo Team (service care) to ask those question, I belive it was before I came here to open this topic.
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