Read books panel by panel

[AlexKaboem]

Not really an issue, but it would be nice - especially on mobile devices - that comic books can be read panel by panel. Something similar as what the Comic Trim app does or the French comic book site Izneo (On the bottom of the page, click on the second icon from the right to trigger picture by picture mode)

I figured out there is already some code on github, I just have no idea how to integrate it into Kthoom by myself (I'm still no coder... )

And thanks for all the great work, the 'optimized for streaming' code you wrote a while ago is simply amazing on my site.

[codedread]

Thanks for the idea and pointers! Like Kumiko says this will be pretty challenging to implement perfectly and will probably rely on manually editing and curating the layouts.

[AlexKaboem]

From what I have seen it can be done perfectly with traditional comics (the ones you read from the left to the right where every image is separated by a white area), however modern ones where panes are often connected to each other or even have an image inside an image, that will be impossible I think.

I think the approach from Comic Trim is the best: in case where it is impossible to separate panes, it simply shows a block containing a few panes - still better as showing the whole page on a telephone. And it has the possibility to temporary switch back back to full page mode so you can manually select the next pane in case you feel that Comic Trim is lost.

Izneo however, has a different approach: they say on their site that only some of their books support 'easycomics' (their name for panel by panel reading). In reality, it seems that only the 'easy' comics are shown as 'easycomics' - the more difficult ones (and I fear most of the newer American Comics can be called 'difficult') you have to read the traditional way.

[AlexKaboem]

Some interesting reading: https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/comic-book-panel-segmentation/