Reading

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Just like using media player software to access your home media library on a PC instead of physical devices, your computer can be a versatile platform for reading a wide range of digital documents. This includes books, magazines, catalogs, pamphlets and brochures, posters, reports, presentations, booklets, manuals, restaurant menus, novels, newsletters, comics, and manga. This however, shouldn't be confused with ebooks, see E-reader page for that.

Popular formats
Before diving in deeper, as mentioned above see E-reader page for ebook file formats such as EPUB, FictionBook/FB2 or MOBI.
  • Comic Book Archive file (CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ); which is essentially ZIP or RAR archives and it's used to store multiple images, they most commonly include JPEG or JPEG 2000 files.
  • Portable Document Format (PDF)
  • DjVu

Software types

Document viewer desktop software
Websites

There are several websites out there replicating the experience of reading via focusing things like page turning animation, visual elements, sounds, and other interactive elements for better immersion and enhancing the reading experience compared to looking a 2d monitor screen using document viewer software. Kinda similar to game room simulations, it's all about improving the reading experience.

Game Room Simulations

There are game room simulations which some of them supports the comics, books etc.