Comics images on eBook readers

[enzozaqueu]

Hello there!

I'm currently working on converting a Web Comic to an epub and a kindle version, but i'm having some trouble with two little details.

If you open a comic book from kindle store, you'll see that you can zoom the page without having to select it, but i'm having trouble trying to replliate that feature on my project, there's a option for that or a piece of code? As an example, if you need, theres a Sandman volume demo on the store!

The other problem is that my file is not showing the cover, I already tried the solutions from the manual.


Any help would be great!

[jhowell]

Kindles have specialized formatting requirements for comics. You may want to consider using Kindle Comic Converter to handle the Kindle conversion.

[Ertagon]

Why there is still no plugin for calibre to make this happen is a mystery to me.
I think I'll write one myself.

[BetterRed]

Almost every optional plugin there ever was was developed and supported by the person who first had the need for it.

That goes for Calibre as much as it does Photoshop, Notepad++ etc.

BR

[theducks]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Almost every optional plugin there ever was was developed and supported by the person who first had the need for it.

That goes for Calibre as much as it does Photoshop, Notepad++ etc.

BR

Or the person watched a coworker flail away at a repetitive task.

'Here is something I whipped up, that should make that go quicker'
(it was an learning experience for me, using a new feature of the application)
(I was a Beta tester. On releas day I handed my boss a couple of aids I had made as a learning task. I was under a NDA until then)

[Ertagon]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Almost every optional plugin there ever was was developed and supported by the person who first had the need for it.

That goes for Calibre as much as it does Photoshop, Notepad++ etc.

BR

I have the need for it but not the time.
And I am not familiar with the Calibre codebase and API.

I am going to put out a reward for it.

[innocenat]

Originally Posted by Ertagon

I have the need for it but not the time.
And I am not familiar with the Calibre codebase and API.

I am going to put out a reward for it.

I have looked into doing a calibre plugin but having PIP dependencies that require native module in calibre plugin seems very hard to manage.

So I discovered a calibredb command line tools also allow you to interact with calibre directly, so I built this: https://github.com/innocenat/comic-ebook-tools I built it only for my own use so the user need to know basic of command line to use it, but it help me a lot managing my comic library. Note that I have no need for MOBI generation so I didn't code that in.

(I built it quite some times ago but your comment remind me to put it on GitHub).