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I'm considering buying an N800 as a replacement for my dying SL C860 Zaurus. Is it possible somebody could port the excellent ABookReader programme to the N-series? It's what I use now for zipped comix.

I would absolutely support this request! I haven't seen a better reader for comic/manga than abookreader so far. Since I also switched from Zaurus to an N800 I would really like to see this programm ported (problem might be that abookreader is for
QT/Qtopia but the Internet Tablets use GTK). IIRC from the building of the english-translated-package for the Zaurus there should be the sources aviable somewhere around here
(japanese site, but one should find the tgz files)

For unzipped manga/comic the standard image viewer of the OS2008 is nice, you can go to next/prev in fullscreen, and zoom also works fine. But copying a single zip/rar-file is a lot more convenient than copying a bunch of single images.

greetings from a ex Zaurus and now N800 user ^^
seiichiro0185

I have an N810 and "ported" and modified Comix for it -- it's hildonized and it runs.

It can kindly be called resource intensive -- opening a new file takes 5-15 seconds, and I occasionally get notified that it's stopped responding, although it recovers. Aside from the start up time, though, it's everything I wanted in a manga reader and the image quality is better than using the built-in image reader. Anyway, if anyone else would like to use it, I packaged it up and made a repository:


It should work for OS2008 on both N800 and N810s; I no longer have a 2007 device.

Works good, thanks. I downloaded some heroes comics to test it out. While it is a little laggy (no fault to you), the features are pretty perfect for i would want... pretty much a comic fbreader. It supports automatic rotation so i can hold the device in portrait mode for full page, its got full screen and dpad works for next page selection, and it supports the formats i guess i would want.

anyone know of other good 'graphic novels' series like heroes or star wars ?

Just installed comix on my N800 and works quite well! Thanks for this port! Now I can use my 15GB of Manga on the go! Now I only need one of those 16GB SDHC-Cards.... ^_^

seiichiro0185

Works great for me. I had been using RDC to run CBReader remotely to read my comics, but your solution works even better. It would be extra super if we could configure the hardware keys to scroll, etc., but it's extremely useable as is.

Thanks again!

Thanks... I added that feature because I kept wishing it would have it while I was using it.

I don't know about good graphic novel series, but I've been using it to finish rereading the Detective Conan series after reading through the ones I bought from Viz. It's an excellent series if you like murder mysteries.

I'm really glad you guys were also able to enjoy the port.

Fakebannana: I thought about making it switch directions for scrolling on the zoom and d-pad when rotated 90 and 180 degrees, but it seemed like a lot of work... is that what you meant about configuring the hardware keys? I could make a custom version really quick with different keybindings if you'd like. Doing it properly with dialogs would be a lot harder, though. (Messing with Comix for this is my first time using Python.)

I hadn't realized that the app was written in Python. I have some experience working with Python myself, so I went ahead and added the keybinding for previous/next page on keypad left and right in fit-width mode, and on keypad up and down when the screen is rotated. I also added a binding for the center button to the "smart scrolling" feature which is normally bound to the space bar.

I'll take a look at adding a customization dialog in the next day or two.

Wait how do I have it so it's in portrait mode? I can get it in full screen but it's still in landscape mode so I have to scroll to see the rest of the image. Can I get it so it's like the default OS2008 image viewer where if I put it in fullscreen it displays the image in portrait mode?

On a sidenote, could anyone recommend a good source for underground comics in a format that can be watched with comix?