Manga and comic archives

A CBZ or ZIP archive full of images is treated as one item: one thumbnail in the grid (its first page), one set of tags, one rating. Open in reader on its page reads it, and the reader remembers where you stopped.

If the archive carries a ComicInfo.xml, the series, author and other details it holds show on the archive’s page.

The auto-tagger reads every page and merges what it finds into one set of tags for the whole book.

Extracting a page#

To keep one page as an image of its own, press Extract in the reader (or e). The page is saved as a new file in your upload folder and opens so you can tag it.

Turning an archive into a collection#

Sometimes an archive would be better as separate images: you want to tag each page on its own, drop the credits page, or keep just a few variants. Generate collection on the archive’s page unpacks it: every page becomes its own image, in a folder named after the archive, filed in order into a collection you name. Each page is linked back to the archive, so you can always find where it came from.

The archive itself stays as it was, and its tags aren’t copied onto the pages.

To go the other way and pack a collection into an archive, see Collections.