When I was growing up, my comic book collection was large. Unfortunately for me, I never had the benefit of a decent comic book collection database, though I desperately needed one. Since then, my collection has grown to include eComics as well as paper ones. I’ve taken a look at a couple different apps, and I have found that I really like ComicRack. It’s a comic book organizer for Windows.
- Comicrack Library Organizer Storage
- Comicrack Library Organizer Boxes
- Comicrack Library Organizer App
- Comicrack Library Organizer Tutorial
- Comicrack Library Organizer Ideas
ComicRack has two main functions. It’s both an eReader and an organizer. As a reader, ComicRack supports all the features you’d can from an app of that type. It has different display modes, a full screen display, information overlays, a magnifier, color adjustments, automatic backcolor matching and a multi tab interface to quickly switch between eComics.
As a comic book manager, you can browse and search your eComics in the library, create folders and lists to organize them. You can customize the lists to show just the information you need. You can use advanced tools to tag and edit the information you’ve cataloged for your eComics. You can also create Smart lists to display dynamic lists based on eComic info, including read status, author, series etc. ComicRack will also allow you to read your comics on your iDevice.
ComicRack is a Swiss army knife of tools for your comic book collection. If you want to convert documents between different formats, ComicRack can do it. Creating CBZs from your PDFs it is just a click away. The application is easy to use and fairly straight forward. If you like comic books, this is a great tool to organize them.
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written by Matthew Sanders
Comicrack Library Organizer Storage
It would be awesome for YACReader to be able to read previously tagged files from my existing comicrack library. Again ala comicrack a script that organizes comic files into folders and renames them using a template with exclude rules, move and copy modes would be awesome. Please excuse me, if it's seems that i am just complaning and comparing. It is an all-in-one solution to read and manage your eComic library. It is actively maintained, has a strong user base and is FREE. As a reader ComicRack supports all the state of the art features you can expect: different display modes, full screen, information overlays, magnifier, color adjustments, automatic backcolor matching and a multi.
Do you want Ubooquity to display more than the filename of your comic files?Follow this tutorial to scrape and save comicvine metadata to your comics.
Requirements
- ComicRack comic organizing tool
- ComicRack Comicvine scraper by Cory Banack
- Comicvine API key
Steps
1 - Press CTRL+F9 or go to Edit > Preferences to open the preferences dialog
2 - Go to the advanced tab and make sure the following options are checked
- Allow writing of Book info into files
- Book files are updated automatically
3 - Create a new smart list by right-clicking on “Smart Lists” within the left information panel in ComicRack
4 - This list will show your unscraped files. Fill in the smart list rules to show files where ‘Notes’ does not contain ‘cvdb’
5 - Download the Comicvine scraper .crplugin file from Cory’s github page. Drag it into the ComicRack preferences Scripts tab then restart ComicRack
6 - Select the comic files you want to scrape
7 - Click the green scraper star in the top navigation bar to start the scraper
8 - A new window will open. Click the settings button and paste your Comicvine API key in to the text field in the Comic Vine tab
9 - Go to the behaviour tab and choose to save the metadata to the notes field
10 - Go to the advanced tab and paste the content of the ‘‘scraper filter’’ page in to the box (see link below). This is a good starting point for you to be able to filter the search results when scraping a file. Feel free to add to your list of filters as you come across them
11 - After scraping your files you should see a yellow star in the bottom left of your cover thumbnails. That icon signifies that the file is waiting to be saved
12 - Go to your smart list that shows which files are waiting to be saved. If you don’t have this list you can create it by filtering for Modified Info “is Yes”
13 - Set the library view to not grouped, stacked by file format and not sorted to be able to update all the files at one time
Comicrack Library Organizer Boxes
14 - Right click the stack of files and choose “Update Book Files”
Comicrack Library Organizer App
Tip
Comicrack Library Organizer Tutorial
Ubooquity will use the new metadata saved in your cbz files, but not until you perform a rescan of your files!
Comicrack Library Organizer Ideas
If some of your files are not being updated with their new metadata then they are probably not zip packed. You can use ZenCBR to check your files for the appropriate extension. Sometimes cbz files are saved as cbr and vice versa. Then use, or skip right to using, comicrack to convert every file that isn’t a cbz in to a cbz by right clicking the files and choosing “Export Books” > “Convert to CBZ”.