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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Best eComics book reader for iPad ... besides ComicZeal4

I know.  ComicZeal4 is the best comics book reader for .cbz and .cbr files.  Hands down.  The problem is that there are quite some ebooks in .cbz and .cbr format that are not comics book, and I don't want to mix my comics book with my non comics book, so I am looking for alternatives so that I can put different kind of books in different apps.

I following the link and tried out some suggested apps and found that ultra shitty:

Stanza : hate the fact that it shrinks my JPEG file resolution within the cbz file. Not cool.
CloudReaders : very unstable.   The UI gets into some situation, like the screen get totally blank, and shit.  Not good.


And then I tried Bookman, and was very impressed by how smooth it is.  The UI is nice.  The browsing experience was amazing.  The thumbnail feature is useful and awesome.  I am very surprise that the app is actually free!


I even start using it to view photo album.  I can just zip a set of files, and throw that zip file in the the Bookman folder without even renaming the zip to .cbz.  And the view in iTune preserves the .zip folder so that I can even use it in other places.  Before this I was trying to use Stash to hold photo album, but found that it resample my photos and doesn't allow me to zoom to extreme detail.  Bookman doesn't have those problems at all.  It's amazing!