I'm just wondering... I want to get a nook, mainly to use it as a manga/comic reader on top of text-only books. I have a huge collection on my hard drive.

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Spartan745 May 09, 2010

I'm just wondering... I want to get a nook, mainly to use it as a manga/comic reader on top of text-only books. I have a huge collection on my hard drive.

most are either folders of jpgs, .zip or cbz/cbr files and I know I can convert most of them into a epub file. My main concern is, will the nook stretch out or misplace text from the original speech bubbles? I've heard it's ok now but I really want to make sure.

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albrechtletao 3 years ago

It won't stretch it; it'll retain the original resolution. Additionally, nook does support viewing .jpgs and .pdfs natively, and nothing is ever skewed!

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thomasbrand 2010-05-11 22:25:45

I am sorry I don't know. I would think and iPad with its color screen would be a better device for graphic novels and comic books. But then again what do I know. Best of luck.

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Eddie 2010-05-10 09:58:26

I have no idea to be honest. If I remember to I'll attempt to convert some manga pages tonight and load em up to see how it works for you.

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umibozu 2010-05-12 09:53:08

Just to give you some other options, I don't have a nook but I have an iPad and ComicZeal... you can just drag and drop zips, rars, cbz, cbrs and they just work. It's an incredible comic/manga reading platform.

Goodreader is awesome for reading PDFs, like this 184MB, 4k page "the complete calvin and hobbes" somebody let me borrow. It's faster than many desktops...

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Eddie 2010-05-12 12:23:34

Drag and drop? I thought the file system to the iPad wasn't accessible? Color me intrigued.

umibozu 2010-05-12 12:34:52

this is a very poorly advertised (yet awesome) functionality of some apps. You open itunes (curse that shit) and click on the ipad icon. On the right, select the "applications" tab. Now scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see a list of applications that DO support drag and drop of files on their chrooted filesystem. The ones I have with support are goodreader, comiczeal and cloudreader. I drop CBRs on the comiczeal app, sync, and on the next startup of the app comiczeal automagically converst to its native format and deletes the original file.

It's pretty sweet.

Also, the ipad supports drag and drop of pictures natively... which is a big help. My win7 opens the ipad as a usb storage device for pictures only; I drop the pics in there and they're instantly available within the ipad.

Eddie 2010-05-12 12:57:15

Very nice! Definitely did not know such functionality existed :)

userd40ad11b74f 2010-05-12 22:34:08

ComicZeal on iPad is one of my favorite apps. Comics look amazing and transferring files to the app is pretty simple (and quick) as umibozu mentioned. I love seeing DMZ, Y: The Last Man, Deus Machina, etc organized and ready to read.

It seems like you would be missing a lot reading comics on the Nook, but perhaps others have had a good experience?

brett 2010-05-13 07:24:44

That's really cool. I would love to see a video of this in action so I'll try searching around later today.