PRS-950 Is there a better way to get Mana on the sony?

[netboy]

This is how I get manga on my 950 and I was just wondering if there is a better way?

I take the downloaded scanlation and use manga2cbz from the irex group to convert it o a cbz. I usually group them into volulmes of 5 or 10, such as Volume 1-5 or vol 1-10. But before that I edit the config.xml to 600x1024 so it resizes to full screen. I know its not the correct aspect ratio but it makes it easier to read.

I then import them into calibre and covert it to epub disabling trimming.

This seems to work well, but I was just wondering if anyone has a better method.

[MerLock]

Mana.. I know.. Manga ... not so much.

[viviena]

There's one method I use, picked up from MobileRead member jjw (not sure if I spelt that right). I'm not sure that it's better, and it certainly is longer, but the advantage is that everything is arranged very neatly. I like having a TOC, having names to those chapters, and not having separate volumes clutter up the library.

To summarise: I have all the JPG or PNG files of each chapter archived in CBZ or CBR, so 01.cbr, 02.cbr ... 25.cbr, if there are twenty-five chapters. They should all be in the same directory. I use the command line to print the contents of this directory into a text file (quicker than typing it all out), so I can do this. Once that's done, I dump all the directory contents into the one CBC file, then let Calibre process and automate everything. It usually does a good job with splitting images, resizing them, etc.

The result is a huge EPUB, but one that's quick to load because of the frequent page splits. The TOC is multi-level, the top level showing a list of chapters, and drilling down shows the pages in each chapter. As an example, the manga series I've converted into EPUB is 25 chapters, 200 MB, with a multi-level TOC.

[mribbs]

I use DomDomSoft Manga Downloader it creates a nice PDF...I'm not sure if they've added ePub yet but its quick and painless