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Medullah posted:My dream app is something like Plex for comics, tracking what's read and unread, gathers metadata, etc. The closest I found was YACReader. I should warn there’s no multi-user support, so read/unread tracking will get real messed up if you have multiple people. But it can pull data from Comicvine and it has a desktop app in addition to the iOS one.
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# ? May 6, 2020 15:45 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 02:50 |
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Has anyone found a good way to read Kindle Unlimited comics on PC? The Comixology reader will show me my purchased Kindle comics, but for Kindle unlimited I need to use the terrible (for comics) PC app or kindle cloud reader. The kindle ios and android readers aren't too bad for comics, but they don't have great kindle unlimited integration. The answer is probably to do a trial subscription to Comixology unlimited instead.
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# ? May 6, 2020 17:39 |
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Another new Panel Syndicate pay what you wish series. http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/badkarma Bad Karma, an ongoing series by Alex de Campi, Ryan Howe and Dee Cunniffe.
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# ? May 6, 2020 19:18 |
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Gummy Joe posted:Dark Horse yesterday, Marvel today. More free trades on Amazon and Comixology right now: https://www.comixology.eu/Miles-Mor...pc3QvbGlzdDYyMg https://www.comixology.eu/Captain-America-Sam-Wilson-Vol-1/digital-comic/360081?ref=bGlzdC92aWV3L2Rlc2t0b3AvZ3JpZExpc3QvbGlzdDYyMg https://www.comixology.eu/Doctor-St...0ZWRFZGl0aW9ucw Edit: Apperently this is the list. https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/marvel-unlimited-continues-to-offer-free-access-to-iconic-comic-book-stories Rincewinds fucked around with this message at 22:23 on May 6, 2020 |
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lifg posted:I did the same! Yours are considerably more sophisticated than mine (except for the bit in mine that tries to fix cases where things are named, e.g., "Ch.10" - "Ch.10.5" - "Ch.11", which don't sort correctly)! I've spent most of my time working on the reading experience, since I spend a lot more time reading comics than importing them.
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# ? May 7, 2020 15:13 |
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So due to a change in circumstances, I think I'm going to have to go digital with comics (I find out on Monday basically). Someone mentioned that there's a browser plugin for Comixology that will download/convert your comics into CBR files for you. Can anyone link that? Also, is Humble Bundle basically it for a site that sells comics that allows you to download them as DRM free files? I missed out on the Hickman one last month, and they don't seem to have a store, just their sales. At least I used to redeem those digital codes from the Marvel books.
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# ? May 7, 2020 15:23 |
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vkeios posted:The closest I found was YACReader. I should warn there’s no multi-user support, so read/unread tracking will get real messed up if you have multiple people. But it can pull data from Comicvine and it has a desktop app in addition to the iOS one. Yeah this one is awesome, but sadly no Android app.
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# ? May 7, 2020 15:29 |
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IUG posted:Also, is Humble Bundle basically it for a site that sells comics that allows you to download them as DRM free files? I missed out on the Hickman one last month, and they don't seem to have a store, just their sales. https://groupees.com has bundles too. Like right now they have a top tier Humanoids bundle with some of the best euro comics ever written.
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# ? May 7, 2020 16:07 |
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Certain publishers allow for cbr backups from comiXology. Image is the big one. A few of the others do, too, some depending on the title.
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IUG posted:So due to a change in circumstances, I think I'm going to have to go digital with comics (I find out on Monday basically). Someone mentioned that there's a browser plugin for Comixology that will download/convert your comics into CBR files for you. Can anyone link that? Image comics on Comixology can all be downloaded DRM-free.
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# ? May 7, 2020 16:13 |
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lifg posted:https://groupees.com has bundles too. Like right now they have a top tier Humanoids bundle with some of the best euro comics ever written. I've never heard of any of these; anything in particular you'd recommend, or just "get the whole thing and poke each one to see if it grabs you"?
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# ? May 7, 2020 16:19 |
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Endless Mike posted:Image comics on Comixology can all be downloaded DRM-free. Ah, I don't have Image comics through them, since I mainly just used the Marvel Redeem and have that linked to Comixology. Therefore, the backup page was empty. But I could have sworn I saw someone on here say that there's a utility that will just skim your cache or something to get you CBRs from your collection.
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# ? May 7, 2020 18:40 |
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I saw something like that years ago, but it was and taken down.
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# ? May 7, 2020 19:06 |
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Ah boo. I could do the route if I wanted to, but I figured I'd try as close to legit as I could.
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# ? May 7, 2020 19:15 |
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lifg posted:https://groupees.com has bundles too. Like right now they have a top tier Humanoids bundle with some of the best euro comics ever written. Thanks for the link, I jumped on this and will dive through it all.
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# ? May 7, 2020 19:25 |
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IUG posted:But I could have sworn I saw someone on here say that there's a utility that will just skim your cache or something to get you CBRs from your collection. This is the one that I use: https://github.com/Cortys/comic-backup Kind of a pain to set up and it takes a while to scan through your comics, but it works. I just use it to backup my purchases, but it does have the annoying problem of marking each comic it scans as "Read" in your collection.
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# ? May 7, 2020 19:57 |
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That works perfectly, and wasn't a pain to set up at all. I'm just going to have to go through the 1,222 comics I apparently have on there. I think I only bought like two volumes of One-Punch Man, everything else is just Marvel comics I redeemed from that code. Thanks! I'm going to have to see if I can run that server side comic server on my Synology drive now... EDIT: the guy from Semisonic posted:but it does have the annoying problem of marking each comic it scans as "Read" in your collection. IUG fucked around with this message at 20:11 on May 7, 2020 |
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I've avoided getting stuff on Comixology precisely because I wanted to make local backups, maybe it's time for me to revisit that decision.
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# ? May 7, 2020 20:40 |
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the guy from Semisonic posted:This is the one that I use: https://github.com/Cortys/comic-backup FYI, if I recall correctly this will also only pull lower resolution images compared to the iOS and Android apps, as the webreader has never shown hd comics.
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# ? May 7, 2020 20:46 |
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Dsmif posted:FYI, if I recall correctly this will also only pull lower resolution images compared to the iOS and Android apps, as the webreader has never shown hd comics. There used to be a Windows app (via the Microsoft Store) that provided HD resolution. They ended support of it at some point though.
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# ? May 7, 2020 21:01 |
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I just pulled the first volume of Squirrel Girl, and the resolution of the first issue is 1073 x 1650 pixels for every page. The CBZ files are 10-13 MB in size. I also tried to install Ubooquity on my Synology drive, and that failed pretty hard. It seems that no one has attempted in years, the .conf file isn't what the guides say it is, and there's no posts with answer on their forum for anyone who has had a problem with it.
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# ? May 7, 2020 21:49 |
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Are there any scripts like that that can download your Humble Bundle books? They have a "mass download" function but all it does is clicks download on all the books and then you have to hit "Ok" a hundred times.
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# ? May 7, 2020 21:53 |
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ToxicFrog posted:I've never heard of any of these; anything in particular you'd recommend, or just "get the whole thing and poke each one to see if it grabs you"? "Metal Hurlant" is Heavy Metal magazine. "The Incal" is the best kind of space opera: big, gorgeous, and slightly nonsensical. "Metabarons" is background on the world of Incal, it follows generation after generation of warrior barons. "The Eye of the Cat" is a quiet and brutal story of a cat. Everything by Milo Manara is erotica, which is eurocomic-speak for "fancy porn."
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# ? May 7, 2020 23:59 |
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I'm always down for big weird space opera. Went ahead and bought the bundle, only to find out that (a) you have to download each of the CBZs individually and (b) they download as "<a bunch of digits>_r.cbz". This is bullshit, so here's a shell script to download them for you, with the correct titles. Export your groupees.com cookies to cookies.txt and then: code:
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# ? May 8, 2020 04:35 |
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Got an email from Marvel saying they are shutting down their digital store and migrating everything to comiXology. I am having trouble finding a link to the news, this is copy and pasted from my email.quote:Thank you for being a loyal Marvel fan. As a fan of Marvel digital comics, we wanted to let you know that the Marvel Digital Comics Shop at comicstore.marvel.com will be closing on June 2, 2020.
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Uthor posted:Got an email from Marvel saying they are shutting down their digital store and migrating everything to comiXology. I am having trouble finding a link to the news, this is copy and pasted from my email. It's like they knew I was going to start using that service, and went running into the opposite direction.
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# ? May 8, 2020 20:25 |
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Hope this doesn't affect unlimited.
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# ? May 8, 2020 20:45 |
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Wasn't the Marvel digital store just a branded Comixology store anyway?
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# ? May 8, 2020 20:47 |
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I can't remember if comiXology built their store initially before integrating everything. I believe they were separate at first, but later quickly merged libraries.
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# ? May 8, 2020 21:30 |
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I’ve heard of people comparing both the Marvel and DC comic services and always wondered why they weren’t just using ComiXology. Was there some benefit to joining Marvel/DC Unlimited over just ComiXology?
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# ? May 9, 2020 08:36 |
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I don't know much about DC's offering, but Marvel Unlimited gives access to almost everything, but six months behind. ComiXology Unlimited is mostly just the first arc of stuff. It's more designed as a teaser to get you to buy the rest of the books.
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# ? May 9, 2020 12:48 |
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Uthor posted:I don't know much about DC's offering, but Marvel Unlimited gives access to almost everything, but six months behind. poo poo I find this out right as they’re closing. But thanks for the info. That sounds like a great service, and no-brainer thinking about it. I’d probably sub to both companies if Marvel didn’t shut it down.
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# ? May 9, 2020 14:49 |
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Marvel Unlimited isn’t the Marvel Digital Shop. Marvel Unlimited remains open. The Marvel digital shop was a store to buy individual issues and trade digitally as they came out, a’la ComiXology.
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# ? May 9, 2020 14:52 |
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Comixology Unlimited is also US only
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# ? May 9, 2020 15:13 |
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Fly Ricky posted:I’ve heard of people comparing both the Marvel and DC comic services and always wondered why they weren’t just using ComiXology. ComiXology Unlimited? It isn't available everywhere, for one. Edit: gently caress, beaten Lobok fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 9, 2020 |
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Lobok posted:ComiXology Unlimited? It isn't available everywhere, for one. I’m not in the U.S. and I had a trial of it. But that was quite a while ago; I may have used a VPN. blast0rama posted:Marvel Unlimited isn’t the Marvel Digital Shop. Good to know, thanks!
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# ? May 9, 2020 17:29 |
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What is the difference between buying from Comixology.co.uk or Comixology.eu? UK is cheaper, is it because I am from an EFTA country I can use both?
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# ? May 11, 2020 18:36 |
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You cant get any eurocomics via the uk site.
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# ? May 13, 2020 10:09 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:You cant get any eurocomics via the uk site. Goddamn Brexit.
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# ? May 13, 2020 13:36 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 02:50 |
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Joe Hill Bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/books/joe-hill-idw-comics I wasn't enamored by Locke and Key after reading the first book, but people love it enough for me to give it another go. The only other thing I've read was The Cape. It's in the "what if super powers, but in the real world" gritty story that was popular for a while.
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