Manga Reader
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Manga Reader is an easy to use, handy tool specially designed to offer you a tool to help you manage your manga.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Discontinued
No updates listed on official site since 2010.
Features
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Tags
- comics
- Comic
- manga
- cbr
- cbz
- comic-books
- cbt
- mga
- wmga
Manga Reader News & Activities
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POX added Manga Reader as alternative to ACBR
justarandom added Manga Reader as alternative to Tachimanga
Manga Reader information
Developed by
UnknownLicensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
46 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
What is Manga Reader?
Manga Reader is an easy to use, handy tool specially designed to offer you a tool to help you manage your manga.
This application will offer you a viewer for the manga that you have on your computer and an online one as well.
An interesting twist is offered by the Manga Creator component that will allow you to design your own files.
Comments and Reviews
Reading comics and manga seems like such a basic task to perform, and a lot of programs exist for this purpose. Problem is, none of them worked well for me. The alternatives I looked at seemed bloated, lacked certain features (2 page support nonexistent or lousy), or were discontinued and no longer updated.
Manga Reader is works intuitively - it will flip pages from left to right with spacebar (also supports right-to-left flipping if needed) . If you are zoomed in on the left hand page and press space, it will move the page downwards toward the end of the page, then continue to the top of the right-hand page. This seems like "no-brainer" functionality, but some apps don't seem to do it right.
Manga reader will open .CBR, .CBZ, .CBT,.MGA, .WMGA and several photo formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and WDP.
As a plus, the program looks quite excellent, with a spartan (but useful) set of options in the settings menu. The interface is powerful enough to be useful, but also remains unobtrusive.
It's a wonder this program hasn't attracted the attention it deserves. The author is enigmatic and I couldn't find much information about him/her on the site it's hosted on.
The downsides - windows only, and if you're running XP you'll need to download and install .Net framework 3.5. Of course most people running XP should have that installed already. Also, the author hasn't updated the program for a full year now.
Overall this program is excellent and highly recommended.