Digital Comic Reader
May 15, 2006
If you are reading digital comics in Windows, CDisplay is the right application for you.
If you are reading comics on a Mac, unfortunately there is not a CDisplay version for you. However, you can get FFView.
Comical is also a pretty nice application and is available for MacOS, Windows, or Linux. In one instance I even had a file Comical could read that CDisplay was showing improperly. However, I think overall Comical is slightly inferior to the other two applications.
On a slightly different topic, if the new Sony Reader that was shown at CES and highlighted on Gizmodo turns out to be as good as it appears, that may be another solution to investigate. The biggest disadvantage here that I can see though is it appears to only display in black and white.
Tags: "digital comics", cbr, cbz, cdisplay, comic books, comical, comics, ffview, linux, macos, sony, sony reader, windows
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“The biggest disadvantage here that I can see though is it appears to only display in black and white.”
Yeah, and that it will have suck DRM rootkits installed…
http://pigeffer.com/?p=6
Yeah, friggin Sony…
If you haven’t seen ComicBookLover for Mac OS X yet, you should definitely check it out.
It’s a seriously slick way for managing, sorting, reading, etc., your Comic Book collection.
If you got some sort of program that can unpack zip/rar etc for whatever OS you use, you can unpack the cbr’s cause they are in fact just compressed archives storing multiple image files.
I don’t know if this goes for ALL cbr’s but the ones I’ve got unpacks just dandy.
Anyways I’ve just set WinRAR as the default program for cbr’s and use Windows XP’s own image viewer to read “digital” comics.
That sounds like too much work McKack. Certainly CBRs are just rars renamed, same goes for cbz->zip. If you use CDisplay it shows a nice two page spread and has easy shortcuts for reloading the last comic you were reading, bookmarking, skipping from beginning to end, etc.
Thanks, for the information, it was very helpfull
Try comicbookreader for MAC users.
mitchrainsee: where can I get “comicbookreader” for mac?
try opensource cdisplayex
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdisplayex/
CDisplayEx is in *no way* afilliated with Megatallica or his god awful re-hashed version of CDisplay1.8.5.1
CDisplayEx is now generally considered to be the way to go, since its A. much better, B. open source and B. much better.
I realise points A and C were the same, but i felt it was important enough to mention twice.
I wish someone would write a half decent Mac reader…
CDisplayEx Portable Edition is available for download.
It is free and open source. It is based on CDisplayEx an open source version of CDisplay.
It can be downloaded onto a portable drive, launched, closed and leaves no traces behind on the host pc.
It is in RC1 status as of today.
CDisplayEx PE 0.1 RC1