Manga

Codex Reader is live on the App Store today. It’s a native iPhone and iPad app for reading a Codex library: comics, manga and ebooks, from your own server, online or offline. Home, library, series, the comic reader, and reading stats. All screenshots use the app’s built-in demo library. Why build a native app at all Codex has a Komga-compatible API, so I’d been reading on iOS with Komic, a good Komga client. Codex also has its own web app, which installs as a PWA. ...

Since I introduced Tsundoku in June, most of what changed is small, but one thing is worth a post: Tsundoku and Codex now talk to each other in both directions. Codex and Tsundoku, both ways In June the integration went one way. Tsundoku read Codex’s series index (read-only, with an API key) so it could mark which series I already own and focus on the ones I don’t. Now it goes the other way too. ...

積ん読 (tsundoku) is the Japanese word for the habit of acquiring books and letting them pile up unread. It’s an affectionate kind of self-deprecation, and it’s an uncomfortably accurate description of how I read manga. There’s always a new series I’ve heard is good, a sequel that just got a fresh volume, a thing someone mentioned in passing that I meant to look into. The pile only grows. A few months ago I wrote about Codex, the Rust digital library server I built to manage the comics, manga, and ebooks I already own. Codex is great at the “own” part. It scans my files, fetches metadata, tracks what I have. But it has nothing to say about the part that actually feeds the collection: discovery. What’s new? What got a new volume since I last looked? What have I been meaning to start but never got around to? ...