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Originally Posted by MoSo
This is going to be a tough one, because of a couple things: the overall comics-reading market is not all that large (Watchmen's probably the biggest-selling graphic novel of all time and the sales are a drop in the bucket compared to Stephen King or Tom Clancy sales) and the major companies (Marvel, DC) have no wish to support digital comics.
So even if someone decided to build the reader, content would be very slow in coming. As it is, about 90% of the .cbr and .cbz files out there are illegal torrents and comics companies have no interest in making that any easier.
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Oh yes, I fully understand that.
I know such a device built specifically for this does not and will not ever exist. What I am looking for is a device that COULD do this. The options being either A) You view jpegs extracted from these files OR the device runs a Linux OS that has an application that supports the format (like the N810 etc). The Archos 7 I mentioned above runs Linux but it doesn't look like they are as open as the N810 folks to fostering a development community to add additional applications etc. Also my concern for something like the Archos 7 was that having never used a device in this way it was hard to tell if the screen would be large enough with a big enough resolution.