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Can anyone recommend a free comic book reader (for the .cbr format) for Windows?

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CBR is a RAR format. You can simply rename the file with the RAR extension and use any RAR uncompresser. There is an open source comic book reader CDisplayEx that some people use.

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  • That WP link is broken, use sourceforge.net/projects/cdisplayex instead.
    – Harley
    Oct 4, 2010 at 3:21
  • not that bad. What I don't like: if I press DownArrow, the page scrolls down to the middle of the page, and that's too low...
    – Natrium
    Oct 31, 2011 at 14:40
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An alternative is ComicRack. It has lots of features (besides .CBR support), though at first it may seem a bit overwhelming. YMMV.

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  • I tried ComicRack, but in my opinion, it was buggy.
    – Natrium
    Oct 31, 2011 at 14:15
  • and you need .NET-framework 4.0 for this
    – Natrium
    Nov 3, 2011 at 6:49
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I like Honeyview. Honeyview also has a portable version.

Disadvantage: Honeyview takes about (10 * size_of_cbr_file) MB of RAM while running...

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