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Comic reader

How comic pages turn, scroll and fit the screen, and which settings stay with one title.

Pick a reading mode #

The modes are Paged (left to right), Paged (right to left), Paged (vertical), Long strip and Long strip with gaps. Long strip suits webtoons; the paged modes suit printed comics and manga.

  1. While reading, tap the middle of the page to show the menus.
  2. Tap Reading mode in the bottom bar, pick one and tap Apply.

That choice stays with this title. Revert to default hands it back to the mode every other title uses, which you set under Settings › Readers › Manga reader › Default reading mode. It starts as Paged (right to left).

The reader's menus

Turn pages #

Tap the side of the page to turn it, or swipe. Where the taps land depends on Tap zones: Default, L shaped, Kindle-ish, Edge, Right and Left or Disabled. Invert tap zones swaps them horizontally, vertically or both.

AndroidTo turn pages with the volume keys, switch on Volume keys under Settings › Readers › Manga reader, in the Navigation group. They don't turn pages while the menus are showing.

The slider in the bottom bar jumps to any page, with Previous chapter and Next chapter on either side. After a jump, Return to previous position takes you back. With a keyboard, the arrow and Page Up/Down keys turn pages, Home and End go to the first and last page, and N and P open the next and previous chapter. Ctrl with +, - and 0 zooms in, zooms out and fits the page again.

Mouse and keys Linux #

A click turns the page or shows the menus, following Tap zones as a tap does. Double-click to zoom and right-click for the page's actions. The wheel moves through the pages, but scrolls a zoomed page first, and Ctrl with the wheel zooms. In the paged modes, a sideways swipe on the touchpad turns one page.

Press F for full screen and ? to list every key.

A page's right-click actions

Fit the page to the screen #

Open the menus, tap Settings and go to the Reading mode tab. In the paged modes:

  • Scale type sets how a page fills the screen: Fit screen, Stretch, Fit width, Fit height, Original size or Smart fit. Zoom start position picks where a zoomed page starts.
  • Crop borders trims the white margins scans often have. The bottom bar has a button for it too.
  • Pages set to Automatic shows two pages side by side when the screen is wide enough, such as an unfolded phone. While two show, ⋮ › Shift pages moves the pairing by one page when a spread is split wrongly.
  • Split wide pages and Rotate wide pages to fit handle double-page spreads on a narrow screen.

In Long strip, Side padding narrows the strip and Double tap to zoom turns zooming on. The General tab sets the Background color around the page.

Brightness and colours #

The Custom filter tab of the reader's settings has Custom brightness, Custom color filter with its own blend modes, Grayscale and Inverted, so a page can be dimmer or warmer than the screen's own setting.

Scroll on its own #

Switch on Enable auto-scroll under Settings › Readers › Manga reader. Long strip then has a button in its bar that starts and stops it. Default auto-scroll speed sets where it starts.

AndroidWhile it runs, volume up slows it down and volume down speeds it up.

Save, share or use a page as cover #

Press and hold a page for Set as cover, Copy to clipboard, Share and Save. If holding does nothing, switch on Show actions on long tap in the reader's General tab. On Linux, right-click the page instead. It offers Save when the computer has a Pictures folder, and no Share.

Settings for one title, or for all #

Anything you change in the reader's settings applies to the open title only. Change the same setting under Settings › Readers › Manga reader to set it for every title that hasn't changed it. In the reader's settings, ⋮ › Default reader settings opens that screen and ⋮ › Reset drops this title's own choices.

To translate the text on a page, see Translation.