How To Read Comic Books On Your Computer
Reading and organizing a comic book collection on your computer is efficient and a lot of fun. Today we will look at a couple of free applications that allow you to read your favorite comic books on your computer.
Using CDisplay
One of the most well known comic book readers is CDisplay, which has a simple interface with several options to allow the best viewing… just browse to the comic you want by going to File \ Load file.
CDisplay does a great job of displaying comics with settings such as a black background to make it easy on your eyes.
Go to Options \ Configure or just hit "C" to go in and change viewing features. Keyboard Ninja's will appreciate the many hotkey combinations.
Download CDisplay from geocities.com
Using ComicRack
Another great choice is ComicRack which actually has more viewing features than CDisplay. While reading a comic you can easily change setting by right clicking on a page to pull up the menus.
Switching pages is easy with a pop up menu that scrolls to different pages in the comic.
You can go in and change the page order of the comic under Preferences.
You can keep up with the latest builds and other ComicRack news.
ComicRack also includes programmable hotkeys as well.
These are just some of the features of ComicRack. Other features include creating reading lists, using ComicRack as a PDF viewer, information overlays, color adjustment, and other options to manage a comic library.
Download ComicRack for Windows
If you are just starting off with eComics here are a few places to get them free or cheap.
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Yeah, all of these applications are useful for Windows users, not Mac or Linux.
Thanks for a great post!
Do you know of a way to do this in Linux natively?
In Linux, I use Comix.
http://comix.sourceforge.net/
For Japanese manga (comic) fan, ComicsViewer is a great portable viewing application for Japanese manga. One major difference is that it has the option to starts at the upper right corner, which is how Asian literature flows.
Also, one of its funny option is the ability to quickly hide the comic window with ESC key when your boss or parents come poking behind your monitor. It saved me a few times before.
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Portable-ComicsViewer-Download-100633.html
Don't forget Comical for Macs. It hasn't been updated for years but it still works great. I use it for PCs or Macs.
http://comical.sourceforge.net/
Comics is best for Linux.
You forgot to mention the fastest comic reader MangaMeeya.it's lightwight fast and simply the best
the only problem though is that it's only available in chinese or japanese.
Some old version were translated to english.
http://www.mydailymanga.com/2009/01/14/mangameeya-update/
I use Hamana CV for windows.
ComicRack has my vote as simply most feature rich application. Not only a simple viewer but powerful library tool for managing your comics/manga.
What is popular is not always the best for everyone. I once used Comicrack, I didn't like it.
I've found Hamana is great for manga or any type of images and it's made in Japan, and has ton of features like 3d rotation.
http://miyano.s53.xrea.com
What is popular is not always the best for everyone. It's nice to have a load of choices for viewers and they are free.