comics on the ds
Jan. 22nd, 2008 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriIn news that is not.. as dramatic... I didn't really manage to get anything done today except to order the wand for my Hogwarts costume and fiddle around with ComicBook for the DS.
So, I used to love to read comics, but I mostly followed X-Men and that eventually just got too.. messy. So I basically gave up. I did once try the whole Comic Book Reader/cbr thing and it was all right, but I got bored of that too. Today, sort of out of the blue, I decided to try out ComicBook DS because, hey -- at least it's portable.
I got the files needed from the Moon Books Project -- which in itself is a pretty cool site. Then it took me a little while to figure out exactly what I was supposed to do with everything, but once I converted my cbr file to cbrds I just drag & dropped on to my card and everything was set to go! Pretty easy, actually.
Here's a review of ComicBook DS v1.0. I found the experience very much the same, except the issues/error mentioned have been fixed in the v3.0 I was using. It was a little weird to get used to first, but I was quickly able to figure it out and had the view set to left handed dual screen mode. The left screen (touch screen) was the overview of the page and the right screen had the zoomed in view. Clicking around the overview, you could just zoom in on the speech bubbles to read. I got through 6 issues in about an hour and a half and I only stopped because I didn't have anymore on my card!
Next up, I think I will try looking through Moon Books and see about making my DS a portable book reader. Their selection of books is interesting, but their selection of old films is even better.
So, I used to love to read comics, but I mostly followed X-Men and that eventually just got too.. messy. So I basically gave up. I did once try the whole Comic Book Reader/cbr thing and it was all right, but I got bored of that too. Today, sort of out of the blue, I decided to try out ComicBook DS because, hey -- at least it's portable.
I got the files needed from the Moon Books Project -- which in itself is a pretty cool site. Then it took me a little while to figure out exactly what I was supposed to do with everything, but once I converted my cbr file to cbrds I just drag & dropped on to my card and everything was set to go! Pretty easy, actually.
Here's a review of ComicBook DS v1.0. I found the experience very much the same, except the issues/error mentioned have been fixed in the v3.0 I was using. It was a little weird to get used to first, but I was quickly able to figure it out and had the view set to left handed dual screen mode. The left screen (touch screen) was the overview of the page and the right screen had the zoomed in view. Clicking around the overview, you could just zoom in on the speech bubbles to read. I got through 6 issues in about an hour and a half and I only stopped because I didn't have anymore on my card!
Next up, I think I will try looking through Moon Books and see about making my DS a portable book reader. Their selection of books is interesting, but their selection of old films is even better.
