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Originally Posted by Daddy Warpig
On the iPad, media is data. And you do need to manipulate it: Arranging apps. Moving books in iBooks. And so forth.
In iOS 4, you can organize apps into folders. ComicZeal is doing much same thing: organizing comics into series. Let's directly compare the two.
Folders on iOS 4:
Step 1: tap the app icon.
Step 2: drag onto another app icon.
Step 3: There is no Step 3.
Direct manipulation: tap with finger, move with finger.
ComicZeal:
Step 1: tap on the comic menu.
Step 2: tap edit.
Step 3: tap comic.
Step 4: tap move.
Step 5: choose destination from another popup.
Step 6: tap save.
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Or...
PC/MAC/NAS
1) Rename files to appropiate name as you should have done for archiving anyway
2) drop collections into itunes
ComicZeal
3) Open the just imported and sorted collection of comics and read.
I use the app for what they're intended for. For CZ, the reading experience is the most important. Not the management of files. (despite that, it's the only comicapp which automatically sort your files into the correct series based on the name)
CZ enhances comicreading experience with zoom to fit (I never managed to get the zoom of cloudreaders to behave like I want it to. Fit to height),
page by page turns (Cloudreaders "pagescrolling" irks me),
the "magic background" which fills up the background according to the color of the comics border (IE. black border, black background, white border, white background),
zoomLOCK (so you can manually crop out whitespace for a single comic)
auto-resize when image is too large (>3000px crashes apps),
resizing with image enhancements,
global file association IE. open all comic files from other apps into comic zeal,
autosort in categories.
I've been reading the dev's twitter and supportblog, it shows that he concentrates on the reading experience first. Now that that's settled, he's going to put more time on other aspects.
For my secondary comic reading app, I use ARCreaders. I use this for single issues/chapters which I haven't sorted myself into it's appropiate archive on my NAS. I will then just sync all of these files into arcreaders to read, instead of them messing up CZs library.
(btw... goodreader's "manage files"-options is even worse by your standard then.
1)tap manage files
2) tap create new folder
3) tap done
4) select files
5) tap cut
[s]6) tap done[/s] this step is taken out with latest release
7) tap to open newly created folder
8) tap cut/move