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silverado writes: MangaMeeya belongs to one of the most popular tools among manga readers. The newest version of MangaMeeya has appeared yesterday on a news site.
Features:
-New: Supports imbracted archives (archives within archives)
-Read Image albums ( Mangas, Comics, or any picture/photo album) in RAR (CBR) or ZIP (CBZ) formats, including password protected ZIP or RAR archives
-Read all common picture formats ( BMP, PNG, GIF, JPG), and can be used a standalone picture viewer
-No installation required
-Extract ZIP and RAR archives
This tool can now be found on here:
http://www.mydailymanga.com/?p=401
Features:
-New: Supports imbracted archives (archives within archives)
-Read Image albums ( Mangas, Comics, or any picture/photo album) in RAR (CBR) or ZIP (CBZ) formats, including password protected ZIP or RAR archives
-Read all common picture formats ( BMP, PNG, GIF, JPG), and can be used a standalone picture viewer
-No installation required
-Extract ZIP and RAR archives
This tool can now be found on here:
http://www.mydailymanga.com/?p=401
Comments (limited to first 100 replies)
» Bart Simpson on June 21st, 2008, 11:27am
hm, never heard of it.
personally I'm using CDisplay or IrfanView.
personally I'm using CDisplay or IrfanView.
» onizukaa on June 21st, 2008, 11:42am
Youre not the only one. I use a lot of different Manga reading tools, but this one is one ive never heard of.
» Neonic on June 21st, 2008, 4:24pm
I use CDislapy as well, it a nice app.
» Oggign on June 21st, 2008, 6:01pm
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'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 » silverado on June 21st, 2008, 12:08pm
I've been using MangaMeeya for years. All my friends and team members use it to read manga. There is no dispute that MangaMeeya is one of the best and probably the most comfortable manga reader out there.
» eni on June 21st, 2008, 12:39pm
The new "archives within archives"-features which gets praised so much is very comfortable but nothing to hype about. My reader offers it since ages, it's a really old feature already ;)
» silverado on June 21st, 2008, 12:50pm
What's the name of your so called old reader?
» onizukaa on June 21st, 2008, 1:34pm
Mine offers it as well, and its called Manga reader (No, srsly, its called that). You can read anything. Zips, rars, Folders, Jpgs, It doesnt matter. It even has a nifty resizer.
Anyways.... Ya... Just me being nosy.
Anyways.... Ya... Just me being nosy.
» silverado on June 21st, 2008, 2:00pm
How about providing a few list. Maybe we can compare the features.
» onizukaa on June 21st, 2008, 2:05pm
Manga reader
Emanga This one is my favorite, but it doesnt work when you use Gifs.
Those are my main two. Try them out for yourself. Im bad with words, so... ya...
Emanga This one is my favorite, but it doesnt work when you use Gifs.
Those are my main two. Try them out for yourself. Im bad with words, so... ya...
» Oggign on June 21st, 2008, 6:42pm
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)
- "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
)» linksolo74 on June 21st, 2008, 1:42pm
I personally really like Comix.
» Quasi Mortuus on June 21st, 2008, 2:02pm
Sounds like an interesting tool, I'll give it a try
Thanks
Thanks
» iie on June 21st, 2008, 4:02pm
comix is the best but no windows version :-( i use comic rack which is pretty good for windows and if u have time its library functions are usesful
» reizencroft on June 21st, 2008, 4:31pm
I love comix. It's one of the reasons why im using linux today. But i still have to use windows, so I really do hope they port it to windows. But for now i stick to cdisplay when reading manga on windows.
» silverado on June 21st, 2008, 4:46pm
What's so good about comix? MangaMeeya does the same, is faster and works on windows.
» isamarsh on June 21st, 2008, 4:57pm
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.
» isamarsh on June 21st, 2008, 5:04pm
Holy crap it even has mouse gestures... ! Why the heck didn't someone tell me about this damn thing before LOL
» jakepenn13 on June 21st, 2008, 6:10pm
I have been using ACDSee for reading, this works much better!
» E.n.i.g.m.a. on June 21st, 2008, 9:17pm
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!
» CatzCradle on June 21st, 2008, 11:58pm
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?
» Sunfizz98 on June 28th, 2008, 11:16am
yeah, I had that trouble too. Therefore, I did some editing and fixed it. I also repackaged it on my wordpress site.
http://sunfizz98.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/mangameey a-ce/
http://sunfizz98.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/mangameey a-ce/
» Dp1662 on June 22nd, 2008, 1:01pm
its better than cd display yea but I prefer comicviewer over it
» silverado on June 23rd, 2008, 2:52am
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.
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.
» Geese1 on June 23rd, 2008, 8:21am
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).
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).
» silverado on June 23rd, 2008, 10:09am
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'm looking forward to your image comparison!
» silverado on June 23rd, 2008, 10:28am
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
http://www.mydailymanga.com/img/comparison.png
» iie on June 23rd, 2008, 12:42pm
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
» Geese1 on June 23rd, 2008, 2:23pm
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! ;)
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! ;)
» silverado on June 23rd, 2008, 5:26pm
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.
» Geese1 on June 23rd, 2008, 8:10pm
I dunno... I tried looking at it again, and in just the full sized image, it looks like MangaMeeya might be slightly sharper. However, when I scale it to fit my screen (19" widescreen at home and 15" standard laptop) the IrfanView just seems to be a lot easier to read for me. If MangaMeeya could scale the picture to a similar size that IrfanView does, it might make a difference (note that it probably can, but I didn't care enough to bother fiddling with all the settings).
As I said, CDisplay looks much better than MangaMeeya for me, and thinking about it it's probably because the scale is much easier for me to read.
Out of the box, with no changes to the any settings, I prefer both IrfanView and CDisplay over MangaMeeya. If I get a chance to play around with the settings in MangaMeeya I'll see if I can get something I'm happy with. If not, it's not a big deal as I'm perfectly happy with the other two.
As I said, CDisplay looks much better than MangaMeeya for me, and thinking about it it's probably because the scale is much easier for me to read.
Out of the box, with no changes to the any settings, I prefer both IrfanView and CDisplay over MangaMeeya. If I get a chance to play around with the settings in MangaMeeya I'll see if I can get something I'm happy with. If not, it's not a big deal as I'm perfectly happy with the other two.
» Chichiwomoge on June 24th, 2008, 1:51am
For mac, the best choice is SimpleComic by far.
» takitogr on July 11th, 2008, 9:46am
i didn't know about this program! it's by far the best! i love how the pages turn around trying to imitate the way u browse through a manga...it's so nice! i only operate it with my mouse while reading )))) perfect!
)))) perfect!