OK, i'm impressed... Lancoz resizing, really fast, flips pages and works in both l2r and r2l mode with 2 pages side by side. It really does seem to be a good replacement for CDisplay so far.

Holy crap it even has mouse gestures... ! Why the heck didn't someone tell me about this damn thing before LOL

Never heard of this . I'm using ACDSee for larger file types, open directly a .rar file (even .rar in .zip in .cbz ). It's not free but you can find cr@ck aywhere

I have been using ACDSee for reading, this works much better!

I think ACDSee is much better. Here's some features I think is cool (not only for manga reading but also for personal images :
- "Archives within archives" feature (open directly .rar, .zip, .cbz, .bzip2, .gzip, .tar,... and some I havent known yet ). It can also extract archives itself.
- Filter (display only archive files and images files, display hidden files)
- Support almost every images file types nowaday (jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bmp, pcx, tga, ras,... and even psd from photoshop), it also has the convert function (everything to jpg, and others)
- Zoom function is cool (fit width or height or actual size or zoom to certain %). And you don't have to change again coz it can remember the settings.
- Organize images quite effectively (not only manga but also other images) : Favourite folders, Private folders (this's one of the coolest function, it move you files to a archive file, protected by password and keep it privately, and everytime you add some images to private, it moves those files directly to the archive, no need to worry about privacy ) )
- Images editor : quite good for beginner and those who want to edit images quickly (but cant compete with PS in function of course)
- Many other function like Upload to Flickr, fast rotate, batch convert, rotate, resize, adjust, slideshow, burn directly to disk, import from devices...
It's not free ($30 for ACDSee Photo Manager and $65 for ACDSee Pro - 40% - 50% off at the moment ) but cr@ck is everywhere
PS: I dont work for ACDSee or in accociation with them )

This is a really great tool. I never knew about this, and I only discovered about it today! Thanks for the article. It really helps!

As a long time user of CDisplay, I think MangaMeeya is quite nice but required some configuration before it was comfortable to use. Also, I'm having some trouble changing the way a page scrolls up/down as to resemble something slower like CDisplay's. Since there doesn't appear to be any help package that came with it, any suggestions please?

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its better than cd display yea but I prefer comicviewer over it

alright, lemme say this:

mangameeya is not a nerdy, manga archivating script.

1) It's trimmed for mobility and performance. it runs on every windows WITHOUT INSTALLTION or any programming framework. You can put it on an USB stick and read your manga anytime, anywhere!

2) It's only 800 KB and it's ultra fast loading. the pages are resized in high quality. you get no line noise with PNG (unlike CDisplay). There different portrait formats: like fullscreen, double page, double layout (it automatically recognize if an image is a double page or not). It even supports mouse gestures. You can even customize MangaMeeya to use different setting profiles. So if you got a laptop and have to change the keys, you can simply load your keysettings for the laptop or your computer. All this in only 800 KB, that's a damn lot.

so if you always wanted a fast loading, quality manga reader, you should use MangaMeeya. If you want a manga management tool, try out comicrack (win) or comix (linux). In my opinion those heavy tools require a lot more of your ressources for extra features, that personally I don't give a damn, cuz i dont archive every manga I download. especially owners of older computers might find the loading time of comicrack annoying. if you are an CDisplay owner, then really should think about changing. CDisplay's performance is CRAPPY compared to the fast loading, light MangaMeeya.

I tried MangaMeeya the over the weekend for the first time. I'd never even thought to look for a dedicated tool to read manga, and had always been content to just use IrfanView so I was curious to see how something like this worked.

To put it bluntly though, it's crap. Maybe you can go in and adjust the settings to improve it somewhat, but out of the box the picture quality is far below that of IrfanView. Doing a side by side comparison made it clear that MangaMeeya image quality was far below that of IrfanView, at least on my home computer. I may give it a shot on my laptop to see if the image quality is any better, but in all honesty other than being able to read from non-uncompressed zip files, it doesn't offer me anything that I don't already get (and space is not a problem for me, so having to uncompress files is not a big deal).

I would like to see the image to image comparison. I've been using Irfan View for years. Out of the box it uses a crappy resizing. Only if you enable the resample feature, it becomes somewhat readable. If you want to compare images, you have to turn on resampling on both tools. Also Irfanview does not provide double page reading and archives, which is quite important if you keep track of LOTS of different series. Also what do you do if you downloaded vast amount of volumes where the chaps are included as archives? You have obviously too much time spendinf time on decompressing each chapters.

I'm looking forward to your image comparison!

I've made an image to image comparison between Irfan View with 24bit resampling enabled and MangaMeeya default:

http://www.mydailymanga.com/img/comparison.png

Ok Having used this program it is definitely my new windows reader of choice even if it still isnt up to comix. i feel comix has the edge on image quality, features and interface in my view isnt that much heavier on resources. It does however kick seven shades of fecal matter out of everything else on the windows platform in terms of compatibility and resource usage. I dont like the animations (i know you can turn them off) on it and the advanced controls are not intuitive but with some work this could become an even better program than comix

Just using IrfanView out of the box, the image quality is better in my eyes. I tried MangaMeeya again on my laptop here at work, and I'm still running into the same problem as on my home computer.

MangaMeeya just looks washed out compared to the stock Irfanview. The blacks aren't as sharp, and much of the text isn't as easy to read. Strangely enough, I gave CDisplay a try as well, and I didn't seem to have the same problems. The image quality, to my eyes, looks much better than MangaMeeya, and is enough on par with IrfanView that I'll continue to try it out for a while to see if I like it.

Maybe it's just that I'm looking for different things, but in my eyes the image displayed in IrfanView is much more "true" than that in MangaMeeya.

Different strokes and all that! ;)

funny, in my opion the mangameeya image is much sharper and clearer, while irfan view resampling tends to blurry things. if you try to read png files with irfan view and resampling deactivated (out of the box) it will give you fragmanted lines. so no matter what, irfan view needs resampling, otherwise the image becomes distorted. which leads us to what kind of resampling setting did you chose for both tools? in the end it really comes down to what you've experienced before. if you read a manga using irfan view and change to another reader, you will always notice slightly differences between the images and in most of the time those changes will feel bad. but that's a psychology effect, not an object argument. if you want, I'd like to have an image to image comparison and where you say what you didn't like.