View Comics with Your iPhone

The iPhone is so much more than just a phone. It has a whole host of features including internet access and iPod capabilities. Another thing the iPhone can do is allow you to read comics on it.

There are a lot of iPhone apps available that can do the job. A good example is one called ComicZeal. This app converts native .cbr and .cbz files to its own format that is customized to give you the best comic-reading experience on your phone. Comics can be viewed in both portrait and landscape form, depending on the user’s preference. Another advantage is that ComicZeal remembers the last position of a file so if you have to abandon reading, you can always come back and pick up where you left off.

While ComicZeal is an excellent comic reading app for the iPhone, it’s not free. It’s not expensive to purchase but if you don’t want to drop a few bucks on an iPhone app there are ‘free’ ways to get your comic fix.

Comic books in .cbr and .cbz format are just a bunch of images joined together. By changing the extension to .rar and .zip respectively, you can extract all the images into a folder. Then, you can view the comic using the iPhone’s built-in photo viewer. The problem with this is that the viewer automatically changes the image resolution during import. Most likely, the images will be blurred and difficult to read.

At present, the most viable option for a comic lover is to invest in a decent app to be able to view comics on the iPhone. However, an interesting point to note is that non-iPhone users would be at a disadvantage when it comes to comics on their respective phones. What do you think?

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