This project is a simple python manga-reader that uses the "viewnior" image viewer (support for others might come in later versions). I'm sure it's not for everyone, but I find it essential to have one that
- Automatically goes to the next folder when a chapter is finished
- Is simpler than soil
- Is CLI-based
Download manga-reader and run chmod +x manga-reader in whatever directory it ends up in. Then, either add the installation directory to your PATH (NOT recommended since it bloats your $PATH), move manga-reader to a location on your $PATH, or link it to a location on your $PATH. I like to link it to ~/.local/bin/mr, which is generally a good place to install executables that should be accessible from everywhere but aren't managed by a package manager.
manga-reader takes two arguments, one required and one optional:
- The directory containing the manga
- The chapter at which you would like to start, which defaults to 0000 if nothing is provided
it will look for chapters based off of a four-digit naming scheme (i.e., 0001, 0231, 0019, etc.), which is a very limited method, but I've yet to generalise it... it ought to work with [mangal](https://github.com/metafates/mangal), which is likely the best manga downloading app on linux at the moment.
Some example uses:
manga-reader . 12- opens chapter 12 of whatever manga exists in your current directory
manga-reader ~/Documents/books/manga/Usuzumi_No_Hate- starts (opens first chapter of) whatever manga is located in ~/Documents/books/manga/Usuzumi_No_Hate
- Improve help output
- Support for different image viewers/some way to set image viewer
- Save and resume most recent chapter number
- Better chapter folder selecting
- Going to a previous chapter
- It would be cool if it ran from emacs, but then again, that can be achieved with moderate ease by simply using EXWM
- There needs to be a more normal way to install it