Comic book reader

[Jakobus]

Dear fellow-TB users,
Does anyone know of a comic book reader that we could use on the TB?
greetings from the Netherlands,
Jakob

[Dave]

so far I've used the PDF reader and the standard imageviewer of the AI OS.

.CBZ and .CBR files are just compressed JPG files zo I un-zipped/rared and watched the images.

overigens kom ik ook uit NL!

[pemIam]

From ( Comic Book Archive file, wikipedia ):

> For users of the GNOME desktop environment, the Evince document viewer includes support for the format and users of the KDE 4 desktop environment can use Okular.

... I guess that's only for x86 Linux?

One thing I really wonder, is why don't the Touch Book developers just focus on making it work better with Google Android? Or add apps or large screen UI changes relevant to Google Android? And just make sure that it's able to run (with it's larger screen) lots of Android apps. I know the iPhone has CBR readers, and I bet Android does too. Or if it doesn't, it will, because it's a huge main stream mobile OS developer community - in fact, it may be the only one which really competes with the iPhone OS. There's even a CBR reader for Windows Mobile. This is why I ask AlwaysInnovating - why not focus on Google Android?

So I looked it up, and one example of a CBR (comic book archive) Google Android program is (Android Comic Viewer).

Thanks, Pem of http://www.mepem.com/pemtech

[pemIam]

I just read this ( http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/info.htm ), and I saw that Evince is one of the pre-installed Touch Book OS apps.

I also saw 4 Linux programs listed here ( http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/how-to-o ... -or-linux/ ): Asparagino's Comic Viewer, Comix, cbrPager, Evince. This also lists 3 cross-platform viewers: Comical, Jomic, Renuncln

[metzenas]

I'm actually very happy that AI haven't gone the Android route. I don't mind if someone makes it work with TB, but as an default OS I'd like to have something else. From my point of view the best thing would be something fairly standard, works for ARM, with community behind it already(Debian/Ubuntu,Gentoo,Ångström) but the current TBOS that is almost Ångström is not bad either.

I didn't like Android even on my Freerunner and it's meant for devices like that. There are apps in Android that would be nice to have on TB or on other devices, but the OS itself... I don't want it even to be near any of my devices that are able to run it. Lot of the reasons you can read here:

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2009 ... ythbusters

[joeba]

I was unable to locate evince as an installed file.

Comical 0.8 was unable to be complies by the 'make' command. I'm new to this, so I likely did something wrong.

[Randwulf]

I was unable to locate evince as an installed file.

No idea where the file is installed, but Evince is accessible through the GUI. Start >> Office >> PDF Reader

[joeba]

Thanks. I realized it was "PDF Reader" this morning. It reads CBZ files perfectly. When I place it in presentation mode though, I can't exit it without the keyboard. The onscreen keyboard is missing the ESC and Function Keys.