Category: book Nook
Hello Friends:
It's been a wile sence I've done any bord topics here. And granted, the ones I've come up with, I have never maintained for any given length of time. But, This, as always, is a question.
Well, for starters... I been reading more Ebooks as of late, using Kerswell 11 as my reader. Been working out pretty good until now.
I Recently aquired a collection of over a thousand Star Wars comics, which, I been trying to track down for years. Mainly for the "Legacy" books, but yeah. I'm a nerd, so what else can I say.
Anyways, I found this beautiful collection, however, they were all in either CBZ, or CBR format. Now. I looked around for a converter that was half way accessible, and after going through about thirty of them, I found STDU, (Scientific and Technical Documentation Utility, which is the most used program by manual authors.
It's a great little program, Meaning STDU Converter. Very accessible, and very easy to use. However, I converted the format of a book from CBR to PDF, and tryed to read it using Kerswell. It didn't work. All I got was a blank page, no graphics, no text, no nothing.
I Wondered where I should put this topic, as it's sort of a technical question. But, Figured the book nerdish types might have an answer for me as well.
So, the question is, Does anyone know of any way to convert the file types of CBZ, CBR, and/or CBP to PDF in a way that Kerswell could read it? Or, Perhaps an accessible Comicbook reader?
I understand a bit of the mechanics behind Kerswell, meaning it don't read graphics. But, Sence it does scan the document, why would it not recconise the text within. My only guess is, that perhaps it's seeing the hole book/document as an immage, and is unable to sort out the text from the graphics.
If anyone could help me out, I would be forever greatful and in there debt. Thanks alot guys.
Nerds rule, Preps,,, well... Stupid saying, I know, but I'm board! lol
Thanks,
Dragon
Nothing wrong with being bit of a geek. I don't have an answer for you unfortunately, though I hope someone does, because it's a very good question.
yeah, me too. I would like to be able to access .cbr files because that's the file tipes used in mangas, and I really want to read them.
Hmm...
Thanks for the replies you two. This is a subject that I was siriusly hoping would take off in one way or another.
To think. There is evidently a hole book market out there that is completely seeming to be untouched by the blind comunity. I mean, Siriusly? Has there really been no blind nerdish types that said, "Hey, I wanna read comics too... Howabout a script or an extintion for Kerswell???"
Anyways... I'll keep monitoring this thread. If nothing else, Maybe this will raise some noise. Like, damn man, Fricken wierd... Of all the blind fans out there. Figured the Star Wars nuts would have had the comic thing figured out. We do go to some crazy lengths sometimes to get our fixes of a Galaxy, Far, Far away...
Again, if anyone knows anything, please come forth. Or, at the very least, PM me...
Thanks as always...
Dragon
*Puffs clouds of smoke as a fare well jesture*
I'm sure there are many people who'd love to read comic books. The real difficulty is when it comes to this medeum, you're dealing not only with dialog and other text, but pictures which convey the story as well.
You should ask this question to the geeks r us board bard they might have more ideas for you.
I have been trying to get a hold of you so call me on Skype thanks..
True Blood has comic books. I'm not sure if that's the same thing you are talking about on here but I would love to read them.
I've seen adaptations of comics in magazines where the pictures are layed out like a movie script,
E.g: Robot 1 (sitting at a picnic table and eating an ice-cream cone): What a beautiful day.
Robot 2: Oh robot, I wish you would squeak less you need some oil on your rusted joints.
Robot 1: (changing his possition), Squeak, I realize.
ETC.
I do not know how large-scale comic book corporations such as Marvel would be willing to hire people to describe whole comic books. Also think of the space. a 150-page book in print, may take more space in braille and may be more boring. We are missing a whole dimension without the pictures. At lease with Audiodrama we see what the sighted people see, that is nothing. And even with descriptive video, when I watch 24 on SamNet I feel like I understand the story/plot since it's described so well.