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gmanacsa · 11-22-2008, 02:28 PM

Two other good ways to read comics on the iPhone....

1. AirSharing

This app is primarily meant to allow sharing your iPhone's storage as a network drive on your local wi-fi network. This lets you copy files to and from your iPhone as you would any other drive. But the great thing is, it also includes a very good document viewer which supports pdf.

So you can transfer pdfs and other documents into a directory on your iPhone (see below) and read it with complete support for landscape orientation, zooming and panning -- necessities when viewing a pdf.

Here's a pic of AirSharing's pdf reader showing the Steampunk Faeries comic in landscape format:

2. WOWIO Mobile

This web app (disclosure: I work for WOWIO) lets you view the comics in the WOWIO collection on an iPhone (or other devices like recent BlackBerries or an Android phone). While it's only for books that are on WOWIO (not books you already have), everything in that collection (thousands of comics and other books) is free to read online.

A few screenshots that I posted elsewhere in the forums, but that you might have missed...

11-22-2008, 02:28 PM	#8
gmanacsa Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-500, X61T Tablet, iPhone, OLPC XO-1	Two other good ways to read comics on the iPhone.... 1. AirSharing This app is primarily meant to allow sharing your iPhone's storage as a network drive on your local wi-fi network. This lets you copy files to and from your iPhone as you would any other drive. But the great thing is, it also includes a very good document viewer which supports pdf. So you can transfer pdfs and other documents into a directory on your iPhone (see below) and read it with complete support for landscape orientation, zooming and panning -- necessities when viewing a pdf. Here's a pic of AirSharing's pdf reader showing the Steampunk Faeries comic in landscape format: 2. WOWIO Mobile This web app (disclosure: I work for WOWIO) lets you view the comics in the WOWIO collection on an iPhone (or other devices like recent BlackBerries or an Android phone). While it's only for books that are on WOWIO (not books you already have), everything in that collection (thousands of comics and other books) is free to read online. A few screenshots that I posted elsewhere in the forums, but that you might have missed...