tired of manga looking terrible on your kindle? waiting forever for conversions?
comically is a blazing fast manga & comic optimizer built specifically for e-ink displays. preview pages right in your terminal, tweak the settings, then convert entire series in minutes, not hours.
features:
- live image previews in your terminal
- batch process entire series
- smart page splitting for double spreads
- auto contrast for e-ink displays
- resizes to your exact screen (no wasted pixels = faster loads)
- way smaller files without quality loss (more comics on device)
- terminal UI with mouse support
actually fast:
tested with spread splitting & rotation enabled on kindle pw 11 (1236x1648)
| series | volumes | pages | size | epub | awz3/mobi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dorohedoro | 23 | 4,647 | 2.5gb | 45s (103 page/s) | 1m 45s (44 page/s) |
| alice in borderland | 9 | 3,064 | 4.5gb | 55s (56 page/s) | 1m 17s (40 page/s) |
| naruto | 72 | 12,849 | 17.5gb | 4m (54 page/s) | 5m 34s (38 page/s) |
for comparison: kindle comic converter takes 8+ minutes for alice in borderland and 29 minutes for naruto (5-6x slower)
requires a terminal with: sixel or kitty graphics protocol (for image previews)
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works great with:
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limited support : (no image previews)
- macOS terminal
- windows terminal
- alacritty
see https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
on windows and macos, install kindle previewer 3. kindlegen is automatically included.
cargo install --locked comicallycomically [directory] [--output path]defaults to current directory if no path provided. output defaults to {directory}/comically/.
kindle - paperwhite 11/12, oasis, scribe, basic
kobo - clara hd/2e, libra 2, sage, elipsa
remarkable - 2
other - ipad mini/pro, onyx boox, pocketbook era
- awz3/mobi - amazon kindle format requires kindlegen
- epub - universal e-reader format
- cbz - comic book archive (processed/optimized)
inspired by the excellent work of Kindle Comic Converter