Best ebook reader for comic books. .cbr files

[Long Con]

Thanks, DaleDe! I'll check back here in the future then!

[kwjones]

Do you have a Sony PSP?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/p...h-in-us-today/

[Abelturd]

I tried reading comics on cybook - not very useable. I have an android phone and I was surprised how convenient reading comics on a device with such small screen can be. There's at least one comic viewer I'm aware of that supports cbz and cbr natively. I think the same can be said about iphone, although I have no personal experience with it whatsoever, just what I've heard.
So until color eink liseuses make it on the market my recommendation would be either an android phone or a umpc running android os.

[Skyflyer]

The iriver Story can read JPG, BMP and GIF inside a Zip file. I have not tested if it recognizes .cbz files automatically but otherwise you should be able to just rename the extension of the file to make it work. I don't think it handles Rar files yet but they seem to release new firmware with new functionality once every or every two week or so. Perhaps it will be able to read Rar files in the future.

[isaak]

Originally Posted by Skyflyer

The iriver Story can read JPG, BMP and GIF inside a Zip file. I have not tested if it recognizes .cbz files automatically but otherwise you should be able to just rename the extension of the file to make it work. I don't think it handles Rar files yet but they seem to release new firmware with new functionality once every or every two week or so. Perhaps it will be able to read Rar files in the future.

I can confirm that the Iriver Story can read cbz files. In the latest firmware (1.50) you can even fine-tune via dithering setting how the images are displayed.

It is very easy (check google) to convert en masse cbr to cbz in linux and windows command line.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Skyflyer

The iriver Story can read JPG, BMP and GIF inside a Zip file. I have not tested if it recognizes .cbz files automatically but otherwise you should be able to just rename the extension of the file to make it work. I don't think it handles Rar files yet but they seem to release new firmware with new functionality once every or every two week or so. Perhaps it will be able to read Rar files in the future.

This is the same as the Hanlin (EZ Reader, BeBook, etc) except it can also read images inside a RAR file. However, reading images is not quite the same since there are no bookmarks and it doesn't remember where you were if you exit.

Dale

[Dulin's Books]

Anyone tried comic books on the PSP yet? http://content.usatoday.com/communit...ow-available/1

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

Anyone tried comic books on the PSP yet? http://content.usatoday.com/communit...ow-available/1

More here: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/tag/d...omics-service/

[bdp]

While not the fastest solution, I've been using calibre to convert cbr & cbz into some great looking epub files for my EZ Reader. The text is much crisper and easier to read than the raw image files.

[Dipaksomak]

Originally Posted by bdp

While not the fastest solution, I've been using calibre to convert cbr & cbz into some great looking epub files for my EZ Reader. The text is much crisper and easier to read than the raw image files.

thanks I'll try that.

[ikan kona]

Iriver story

I updated to the 1.61 and like the reflow and really dislike the corner zoom, but from a developers point of view, I understand the problems.

Most of mine ebooks are pdf, and if I can use reflow on them it really works nice, but there are really big problems.

Problems to consider:

1. The Zoom with the four steps, should be possible to customize in settings, so I would be able to have it on medium/sec.medium/high as my own customized standard.

2. Zoom in both versions does not work in landscape mode. Why?

3. The corner Zoom has to be easier in functionality, (sorry but to 80es software engineer loves his idea)

4. When I have a book on my SD card and read in it, the Story does not save my Reflow and Zoom settings, this means that i every time I read a book from my SD card have to inter the settings once more. (sorry but that's really crappy)

5. Why does the Story not recognize any book in the book section when i only have my books on a SD card, should recognize them. (have my books on diffrent SD cards, categorized)
This means that each time re-inter another SD card it shall remember where i was in the book and what Reflow/zoom i had, otherwise it wont be real to call it an expansion possibility.

6. The Reflow display some pdf, very weird, exampled under:

Fred is fat and lives in a shel
ter while eating fish with his toes, and usually he sleeps with fresh herring under his pillow.
Unfortunate for the other resi
dents in the shelter, he is resisting any fish related arguments.

So it breaks the lines in some words, this is really not acceptable, please fix it.

7. Must agree with critics that it is cheap not to deliver a cover with the story.

8. There should be a possibility to set the story, to re-inter directly into the book you just read last time, so you dont have to g0 through the menu every time.

9. I can not bookmark pages in pdf's.

10. Recent book, should be resent books, if you are reading several at the time.

[whickie]

I bought a Sony (some small thing with buttons on the side) eBook reader a few weeks ago for straight book reading, but then felt the urge to read some comics on the thing.

Converting CBR to PDF (or Word) was kind of a pain. CBRs are scanned and sometimes the contrast isn't very good so they're hard to read. In addition, page borders and margins make the images smaller than they need to be.

For that reason I wrote a program to convert CBR in to EPUB, and it processes the images so that they look better on an eBook reader. It's all automatic.

It's open source and totally free. If anyone wants it you can find it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/comictoepub/

Will

[denclock]

Thanks whickie I will give it a try

[Noah98]

I would suggest buying a Pandigital Novel and hacking it (very easy to do!).

See my response in this thread concerning this option for comics:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92560

[ebsebs]

Originally Posted by whickie

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For that reason I wrote a program to convert CBR in to EPUB, and it processes the images so that they look better on an eBook reader. It's all automatic.

It's open source and totally free. If anyone wants it you can find it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/comictoepub/

Will

I used Will's program to convert some CBR and CBZ files to EPUB format and read them on my Augen TB. It worked well, even considering the tall and narrow (800 x 480) display format on the TB.

The previous poster talking about the CBR and CBZ formats was correct:
Both formats are a series of JPG images compressed using the RAR (CBR) or ZIP (CBZ) format. Renaming CBR files with a .RAR extension, or CBZ to a .ZIP extension allows them to be opened using standard RAR or ZIP programs.