I present the latest cousine from my python kitchen - PyQtoReader. What does this latest gem from Wacky Tablet Productions do, you ask ? The name should be pretty self-explanatory - it's a multi purpose image zoomer tool written in Python and Qt. Yes, yes, but what does it DO ? OK, OK, in plain English that would be a .cbr reader on steroids for you. I see you're not impressed. How about these extra goodies:

* dynamic zoom/drag, no more boring button pressing for zoom in-out !
* online integration - webcomics, dilbert, userfriendly, xkcd, penny arcade,
whatever rocks your boat
* online integration #2 - flickr, picasa photostreams
* OpenGL support for FAST zoom/drag
* oversize JPG/RAW support it to check on those 20MPix camera images you have
lingering around your tablet
* view LARGE text/html docs with leisure
* possibly pdf via poppler one day
* cbt/cbz without extra dependencies, cbr via unrar

It's really geared towards OpenGL ES devices, but I hacked together a tablet release for all of us who don't happen to have a next-gen nokia tablet in our cupboard. It lacks the whooshes, the fizz and the bang, but does a pretty decent job even on non GL accelerated platforms (read -> your N800 or N810). The alpha unfortunately misses the online integration as well as it's too unstable just yet, but it will be there for the beta.

Still fighting with the autobuilder, so no extras-devel release yet, you'll have to make with a simple .zip (I included an astronomy poster just in case you don't have big pictures at hand). No install required, just unzip in a dir, start pyqtoreader.py and you're good to go.

http://www.atombiztos.hu/pyqtoreader.zip

In case you don't have pyqt installed, the magic command to get it is:

apt-get install python2.5-qt4-gui