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Hi everyone. Does anyone know of a guide or software to convert jpeg files into CBZ format? I download a lot of manga but most of the time the files are packed in a zip and they are all jpegs of each page of the manga. This makes it a bit of a pain to read so I would rather organize them and just make the whole volume into one CBZ to read comfortably. Thank you to all who take the time to comment.

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[–] jlow 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You can just change .zip to .cbz either manually via a filebrowser or a script (cbz are essentially just zips).

I think .cbz can only contain images, no subfolders, so maybe you need to make a .cbz per chapter or do a lot of remaming to be able to put them in one directory.

Cbr is the same but for .rar files (which are not open source?).

I think there is a program for adding metadata to manga like Comictagger (which does not work too well for manga) but I can't remember the name ...

[–] jlow 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like I was wrong about the subfolders! Just tested it and it looks like you can just zip a bunch of folders called chapter 1, 2, 3, etc, rename to .cbz and at least Komga and YACreader seem to just go through all of them when reading. Very cool!

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that’s all CBZ is – a set of image files zipped up and the file extension changed to *.cbz (CBR is the same thing but RAR compressed and *.cbr file extension)

[–] nofunberg@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

It’s just a zip file with a different file extension. Zip a stack of jpegs with filenames that will list them in reading order when sorted alphabetically and then change the extension.

[–] BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

All of you guys are dope !! Thanks for your help