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I don't understand why it's necessary to read the manga inside the zip or rar... Why don't you just extract it to read?
Because it's an extra step you don't need to do. If you plan on keeping the archive file, then your just going to take up space after it decompresses, and then your going to have to delete it afterwards. So technically it's two extra steps.
I am not going to pretend I know exactly how some softwares handle the archives files... But I know that
almost all softwares will eventually have to decompress the file to read it. They will just do it automatically without asking for your opinion, and in a temporary folder. So basically, the saving up space argument is probably moot. (Depending on how the software handle his temp files... but I doubt many of them will bother optimizing that step)