Comixed

The goals for this project are simple. It seeks to be the ultimate management tool for digital comic books.

To achieve this goal, the project will:

• be portable:
  • it can be hosted on the Mac, Linux or Windows, and
  • it can be used by any web browser.
• manage a library of digital comic books, including:
  • the archive format of the individual files (CBR, CBZ, CB7),
  • converting files from one format to another between the supported types,
  • adding and removing images that make up the pages of the comic,
  • managing what type a page is (front cover, alternate cover, story, back cover, advertisement, etc.)
  • blocking pages based on hash identifiers so that they are ignored,
  • sharing of blocked page files,
  • deleting blocked pages from comics,
  • consolidating the library, including performing any or all of the following steps:
    • moving all files into a well-defined directory structure,
    • converting comics to a single archive type,
    • removing files from each comic that have been blocked, and
    • updating the ComicInfo.xml file within each comic with the current metadata.
• allow administrators to quickly import new comics into their library,
• enable scraping metadata for comics from various sources, such as ComicVine.
• allow managed access to the contents of the library:
  • administrative users can create/delete other users,
  • users can create reading lists,
  • users can manage their read state for all comics in the library, and
  • users can read comics using an OPDS application.
• provide a plugin system that allows administrators to customize the features in their application:
  • plugins can be written by third-parties to provide new and custom functionality, and
  • administrators can easily install plugins.
• allow users to share:
  • blocked page lists.
  • reading lists.

What The Project Will Not Do

• It is not a comic reading application.
  • For that, we recommend applications like Chunky (iOS), YACReader (iOS), Librera (Android)

Supported Comic Formats

The following digital comic formats are supported:

• CBZ (ZIP)
• CBR (RAR)
• CB7 (7ZIP)

Last update: 12 April 2024