Comics

[andrewducker]

I read a few online comics.

I have a reasonably fast reading speed.

I have no patience.

This does not help me to get through archives of the comics, even fairly good ones. Clicking next every 3 seconds and then waiting 20 seconds for the next 3 seconds of gratification really doesn't work for me.

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Do you mean that the comics are only good every few strips, or that it takes 20 seconds to load?

Big comics, huh?

[andrewducker]

Slow websites.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Solutions:

1] Faster internet
2] Download less prawn at the same time.
3] Yeah right, of course you don't. Really, less prawn.
4] No okay, I totally believe you.
5] Bollocks do I - less prawn.
6] Pay Ed to go through them earlier on your computer so they'll all be cached and fast to load when you do it.

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

That's what Firefox tabbing was meant for :-)

[awdrey-gore.livejournal.com]

I never understand how H can stand to wait for comics to load. Once I watched him as he calmly sat there, as the panels loaded seemingly pixel by pixel and he was happy as a clam. I got annoyed just watching it, even though I was not reading them myself. It was one of those moment I was sure I was dating an alien.

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

My solution to this exact problem was to wget -r the archives page and then go away, do something else, and come back and read the comics from my own machine when it was done.

[andrewducker]

Oooh - how's that work then?

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

was gona sufggest some form of robot to get the files, a quick google for Call_Waitings sugestion, and this is looking like the same concept..

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Enjoy your comics!!

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Fairly easily, you just look at your archive pages and note the pattern of the URL of the index page, and of the actual comic images. Then just pass those patterns to the accept list (-A) of wget along with the -r recursive flag, and it'll follow the forward and backward links on each page 'till it's got the lot.

...and I was about to say it's available through CygWin (the only way to make Windows vaguely usable) but on running the package installer, I don't see wget on the list. I'm sure curl probably has similar features, but there also does indeed seem to be a wget-for-windows, so that should be your man. :)