My brother Gus has been collecting comic books since he was a little kid, and he is now the proud possessor of a huge comic book collection that is truly awesome to behold. Me, I love readin' 'em, but I sure wouldn't want to have to worry about storing 10,000+ comic books, so I like reading my comics in the widely used CBZ (comic book zip) & CBR (comic book rar) formats. All you have to do is unzip or unrar the archives, but why do that when you can use cbrPager, a GNOME-based program that makes the process of reading a comic in cbr or cbz format easy as pie? The web site provides the source code, & it's not too hard to compile it, but you can probably find a pre-compiled binary for your distro is you just search Google. I looked for " cbrpager ubuntu" & found what I was looking for pretty quickly. If you use straight Debian, apt-get install cbrpager will work. If you like comics, this one's a keeper!

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