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One of the problems I'm having with reading comics on the iPad is that I don't WANT to organise my comics on the device. I want zero organisational features. I've over 70gigs of comics and can't fit anywhere near that many on the device. Instead I store them all on a NAS and access them via smb/cifs. I want to just be able to browse my folders and then read the comics directly from my NAS.
This is actually more doable now than it was not too long ago. Filebrowser (a very neat app for the iPad) can browse these kinds of fileshares and in the next version will utilise the "Open in.." option directly from the fileshare (currently you have to copy files across first). Comic Zeal also now supports opening files from other apps and in an upcoming version will also open the comic automatically after importing. So the two apps will work very well together.
The only thing that bothers me about Comic Zeal is the way you HAVE to import each and every comic. For thumbnail creation and so on. Whereas with Cloudreaders and the now banned Comic Reader Mobi this isn't necessary. And for me is just a waste of time since I just want to open a comic from a fileshare (via Filebrowser), read it and delete from the device. My reading lists and folder oganisation is all done on my PC via Comic Rack. The iPad is just a dumb reader. If it wasn't for the superior image rendering that CZ seems to provide (text just seems sharper) I'd still be using CloudReaders since it's performance is awesome even though you don't need to import and extract each and every comic.
Regardless Comic Zeal is still a very nice app and like I say certainly provides the best image quality out of all the comic readers.
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