We’ve all heard of ebooks, but most
people just think of them as large
collections of text with only the occasional
graphic. Graphic novels, or “comic books”
to the unwashed masses, have also made the
transition to electronic form. But because
they’re naturally so graphics-intensive, your
typical e-reader makes for a poor experience.
ComicRack isn’t your typical e-reader;
indeed, it’s able to display, store, categorize,
network push, and convert e-comics in
many, many different ways.
Like many of our favorite programs,
ComicRack was born to solve the personal
needs of its author. So, although it may
eschew a conventional Windows GUI, it
follows its own logic to meet the special
needs of a devoted e-comic reader.
For example, most e-comics are dozens
(often hundreds) of pages long; some read
people just think of them as large
collections of text with only the occasional
graphic. Graphic novels, or “comic books”
to the unwashed masses, have also made the
transition to electronic form. But because
they’re naturally so graphics-intensive, your
typical e-reader makes for a poor experience.
ComicRack isn’t your typical e-reader;
indeed, it’s able to display, store, categorize,
network push, and convert e-comics in
many, many different ways.
Like many of our favorite programs,
ComicRack was born to solve the personal
needs of its author. So, although it may
eschew a conventional Windows GUI, it
follows its own logic to meet the special
needs of a devoted e-comic reader.
For example, most e-comics are dozens
(often hundreds) of pages long; some read
Some employ two-page spreads, while others
just use one. Toolbar buttons run along
the menu-less top edge of the ComicRack
window to handle these and other situations
while allowing for quick intra-book navigation.
The bottom pane has three tabs
for manipulating your library (which is all
tag- and attribute-based), the physical files
and folders on your hard drive, or the pages
within the currently opened book.ComicRack’s killer feature may be lost
on you if you don’t have a touchscreenenabled
Windows 7 device. ComicRack
is fully multitouch-enabled, allowing for
page flipping and rotation, magnification,
and book navigation using very intuitive
multitouch gestures. The GUI itself seems
to almost magically know how to get out
of your way to let you read in its glorious,
fluid, fullscreen mode, yet it reappears
quickly when you need nuts-and-bolts file
or book maintenance. The YouTube videos
we’ve seen make a Win7 tablet look more
like an iPad than anything we’ve yet seen.
Article From Computer Power User Magazine
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