Comic Reader Mobi looks very promising…
There’s a new iPhone comic reader application ,and it’s called Comic Reader Mobi
The developer Ty Landercasper told me about his new comic reader app made for iPhone and iPod Touch (there’s also a version for Windows Mobile, and coming soon to Blackberry) . Ty told me, “It has everything you’d expect from a full featured comic book reader, native support for rar, zip and pdf files. Automatic bookmarking, and fast load times. But what really makes it unique is the lens feature!
The lens allows you to only zoom in on a small section, preventing the need for scrolling around.”
It’s hard to describe, but easy to demonstrate. Check out this YouTube video to see what it’s all about:
Here’s the info from his website:
- Autosizing lens. Just tap on any text, and the lens will zoom in on just that part. Finally you can see the whole comic as the artist intended without sacrificing readablity!
- Native support for zip,rar,cbz, cbr and pdf files.
- Use the comic sync tool (Windows only), for ultra fast USB uploads to the iphone. No need to wait for slow file conversions or sync over your wireless connection!
- Autobookmarking. Comic Reader Mobi remembers your last position in every file, and even in every series. Switch between them without ever having to worry about losing your place.
- Next page is prebuffered so there is no lag between pages
- High quality Image resizing ensures that images look their very best
- Bring up the transparent onscreen controls by douple clicking on the page, or pressing the lower corners
- use the stand pinch gesture to zoom in on comics
I’m super buried in work right now, so I haven’t yet had a chance to try out the application. But if any of you readers have tried it, please leave a comment and let us know!
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Hello, I bought the application a week ago or so and it’s great.
I found it by accident while browsing the search results for “comic” in the app store.
As you said, there’s no need for scrolling, the lens works perfectly on all kinds of comic books. And one more things, there’s no need for wi-fi connection to transfer your comics from your computer to your itouch/iphone. I dont have a wi fi connected computer so that is a big deal for me.
It is more expensive then anything else out there but you get your money’s worth. I dont need nothing else to read my comics on my iphone ever again.
I have been using this app since the early days of its development and I can tell you that if you like to read comics in digital format you should try this app.
Comic Reader Mobi is the CDisplay or ComicRack of the mobile world. I don’t know how else to say it… you need this app.
So before this app I was using Stripr for webcomics (http://stripr.dbelement.com) on the iPhone. For PDF comics I was using Reader http://reader.dbelement.com Both were great, and I think I might switch back but Mobi is looking pretty good too.
This looks great but is not on the appstore in Australia