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Angemon · 02-25-2015, 01:32 PM

Stremon, try looking for non-image files on your comics before copying them to your e-reader. Sometimes they come with, for example, text files, or even the thumbs.db (a system file used for storing the thumbnails of the image files), and that can screw things up.

I do this every time I want to copy a comic to my Aura HD (I switched the 4GB SD card on my HD for a 32GB so I usually process dozens of volumes at once):

1 - Unpack files
2 - Search for non-image files
3 - Use Photoshop to batch rotate landscape pics to portrait
4 - Use Renamer to batch rename all files (ex. 00001.jpg, 00002.jpg...05489.jpg)
5 - Repack everything and use Renamer to change the extension to CBR/CBZ.

I never had any problem with any comic since I started doing that (and I once used a bash script to download ALL Dilbert strips since the first to the current date, I ended up with a CBR around 850MB and had no problems reading it - other than it took longer to open).

02-25-2015, 01:32 PM	#10
Angemon Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 11612 Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Portugal Device: Kobo Aura HD, Kobo Aura, Kindle DX	Stremon, try looking for non-image files on your comics before copying them to your e-reader. Sometimes they come with, for example, text files, or even the thumbs.db (a system file used for storing the thumbnails of the image files), and that can screw things up. I do this every time I want to copy a comic to my Aura HD (I switched the 4GB SD card on my HD for a 32GB so I usually process dozens of volumes at once): 1 - Unpack files 2 - Search for non-image files 3 - Use Photoshop to batch rotate landscape pics to portrait 4 - Use Renamer to batch rename all files (ex. 00001.jpg, 00002.jpg...05489.jpg) 5 - Repack everything and use Renamer to change the extension to CBR/CBZ. I never had any problem with any comic since I started doing that (and I once used a bash script to download ALL Dilbert strips since the first to the current date, I ended up with a CBR around 850MB and had no problems reading it - other than it took longer to open).