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[hunterguy]

I have been downloading the comic files to a folder on my desktop. 
I would like to have a disk copy.  What would you suggest.  Burn to a CD or DVD.  Mine are in RAR (I guess everyones are) files.  I downloaded that free program CDDisplay that lets me see the comics.  I guess if I play the disk onto another computer I will need this cddisplay program on that computer?

[Yoc]

Whatever format you use most I guess Hunter.  If you want to look at them on another PC you'll want to burn them on whatever format drive (cd or DVD) that PC uses.

And yes, you'll need CDisplay loaded on whichever machine you decide to read them on.

Please be sure to read the FAQ link below this message in my signature, thanks,
-Yoc

[JonTheScanner]

Once again, I'll remind that you don't need to use CDisplay or anything like that.  Change the name of the file to from *.cbr to *.rar or *.cbz to *.zip and unrar or unzip the file to create the individual jpgs.  Then you can view them with any image program.  Of course if you prefer to use CDisplay, then of course you need it on the computer you use.

[Yoc]

Jon is correct.  Any image viewing app like Irfanview will also let you read the scans.
But I get a impression HunterGuy here is a newbie to such things and CDisplay is likely the easiest solution for him atm. 

-Yoc

[John C]

Plus, since you can skip to a specific page, change the brightness, and fit the page to the screen width (convenient now that people are scanning at very different resolutions) with a single keystroke, CDisplay is a really nice solution, even for those of us who do have a million different ways to pick the files apart.

As for the storage media, DVDs hold more data and I'm guessing that, unless your computer is more than a few years old, it can read them as well as CDs.  But if you only have a pile of blank CDs handy from those crazy pre-iPod days, there's certainly no problem in using them instead.

[hunterguy]

yes I am a noob here.  Great site you guys have going.  So I will save them to a CD.  I just hope years from now there will be a way for me to open them!

[hunterguy]

Oh by the way.... about how many books will fit on a CD?  And a DVD?

[Yoc]

Hunter, if you can open them NOW with CDisplay there likely shouldn't be any reason you can't open them in the future.  But don't burn them to no-name cheapie disks.  Use a name brand blank like Verbatim.
And a cd holds approx 700-800mb.  A DVD holds about 4400mb.  So a DVD will hold a LOT more scans.

-Yoc

[Aussie500]

Oh by the way.... about how many books will fit on a CD?  And a DVD?

You cannot say as it depends on the size of the scans, just keep dragging them into your burning program till the disc is almost full.

[narfstar]

Just a note to let all know Staples has a 500Gig hd on sell for like $80