Every week me and some friends “gather up” in some key websites to obtain the latest chapters of our favorite japanese comics. Some of you may know them as TV shows, as the most popular usually become licensed and then turned into a cartoon show that we call “Anime”. Examples of such Mangas are Dragonball, and more recently Naruto and One Piece.
The latest chapters of our favorite Manga are usually released by some dedicated teams that translate the scans, the scanlators, and distributed by popular file-sharing sites.
For many years Manga fans have been forced to find and use programs that support image-browsing inside zip files in order to read their weekly chapters, unless they had the patience to individually unzip all of them.
Although you could already browse files in Windows XP and Vista, we were still limited by having to single click each page and close the viewer in order to browse a whole chapter or volume.
Thankfully Windows 7 supports file browsing zip files almost as if you were looking at an ordinary folder. For manga fans this means that no more using ACDsee or another image-viewer program.
I for one welcome 7 as our new image viewer overlord, and it’s about time that someone or something dethroned ACDsee from it’s lonesome throne.