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Old 10-01-2008, 02:38 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by martinrebas View Post
I want an ebook reader to read comics on, so my main questions are:

1. Is there cbz/cbr support?

2. If not, can you browse images from zip/rar files named .zip/.rar?

3. If not, can you browse forward/back between sequential fullscreen images stored in a folder?

4. How hard would it be to install/write/port a comic reader application?

5. I often want to switch between several books; maybe reading in a foreign language while also using a dictionary, for example. Or trying to learn Japanese by reading Japanese and English versions of a manga simultaneously. Is it possible to quickly switch between several documents (maybe like using tabs in a web browser), with the ebook remembering the current position in each one?
There is a comic viewer ported to the iLiad, using Java, so it might be possible to port this (or a similar application) to the DR. But that will depend on what the SDK turns out to be like. (The CBZ format is extremely simple, though, so developing a plugin for the DS viewer should be simple.)

Meanwhile, you might consider using one of the CBZ->PDF converters (check threads in the iLiad section). Then you could read them using the DS viewer, and be able to switch between them.
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