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Incorporate comic file/data streaming #64

Open TimOliver opened 8 years ago

TimOliver commented 8 years ago

It's been requested by several users that it would be great if instead of downloading comics straight to the device in advance, they could be 'streamed', whether from a local device on the network, or an online service.

Methods include:

Mapping to online drives sounds very easy to do, purely from iComics itself, but the downside would be there would be no thumbnails for the comics locally.

ComicStreamer would vastly improve the experience in being able to generate and supply meta data on the server itself, but obviously brings the additional overhead of users needing to set up a separate app that regulates their comic collection.

TimOliver commented 6 years ago

Another potential protocol is OPDS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPDS