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Activities/Read SD Comics (view source)
Revision as of 09:06, 20 October 2010
, 09:06, 20 October 2010→Slide Collections on the Internet
The interface to Read SD Comics is similar to the core Read activity, which should not be surprising as the toolbar code was adapted from Read's toolbar. You can use the up and down arrows or the game controller to move from page to page. Use plus and minus keys to zoom and unzoom the page.
The interface to Read SD Comics is similar to the core Read activity, which should not be surprising as the toolbar code was adapted from Read's toolbar. You can use the up and down arrows or the game controller to move from page to page. Use plus and minus keys to zoom and unzoom the page.
== Slide Collections on the Internet ==
== Comic Books on the Internet ==
Some books at Project Gutenberg are already in a suitable format. Try downloading this file from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21078 Project Gutenberg]. Look for the file format "Raw page images".
Some books at Project Gutenberg are already in a suitable format. Try downloading this file from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21078 Project Gutenberg]. Look for the file format "Raw page images".
If you want to read some free comic books the Internet Archive has a bunch of them. Use [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=comics%20cbr this query] to see a list of them. They are in the .cbr format, and will need to be converted to the .cbz (Zip) format to be used with View Slides. The program Comix under Linux can do this conversion for you if you have the unrar utility installed, or you can simply unrar the .cbr file to get the images, then package the images in a zip file:
If you want to read some free comic books the Internet Archive has a bunch of them. Use [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=comics%20cbr this query] to see a list of them. They are mostly in the .cbr format, and those will need to be converted to the .cbz (Zip) format to be used with this Activity. The program Comix under Linux can do this conversion for you if you have the unrar utility installed, or you can simply unrar the .cbr file to get the images, then package the images in a zip file:
unrar e LoneRangerDell100.cbr
unrar e LoneRangerDell100.cbr