{"id":43842,"date":"2014-07-25T13:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/comixology-backups-and-file-formats.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:23:47","slug":"comixology-backups-and-file-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/comixology-backups-and-file-formats.html","title":{"rendered":"ComiXology, Backups, and File Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Now that ComiXology is allowing non-DRM backups of the comics you buy through them, I&#39;m faced with a choice of which format I download them in, <b>PDF<\/b> vs <b>CBZ.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Doing some quick Googling about, it seems that CBZ provides a better reading experience, but for long-haul archiving, I&#39;m concerned it may be a more transitory format than PDF.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t have any specific plans to be constantly reading the backup files, but I don&#39;t know if there are other significant trade-offs between the formats. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any other thoughts on advantages or disadvantages to consider?\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-m1oyhsS_xZ8\/U9KsNpY29VI\/AAAAAAACxic\/uvPKUKDIaBw\/Identify-Unknown-File-Types-Without-Opening-Them-With-TrID%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/BWDmdfQ4p52' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that ComiXology is allowing non-DRM backups of the comics you buy through them, I&#39;m faced with a choice of which format I download them in, PDF vs CBZ. Doing some quick Googling about, it seems that CBZ provides a better reading experience, but for long-haul archiving, I&#39;m concerned it may be a more transitory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/comixology-backups-and-file-formats.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ComiXology, Backups, and File Formats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Identify-Unknown-File-Types-Without-Opening-Them-With-TrID5B15D.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43826,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/comixology-shifts-to-drm-free-where-it-can.html","url_meta":{"origin":43842,"position":0},"title":"ComiXology shifts to DRM-free (where it can)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Jul-14 5:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is very welcome. I was aware that the comics I've been buying from ComiXology are actually DRMed, so that I can't back them up or view them through other readers. \u00a0I accepted that as part of the cost vs finding places for hardcopy comics.But now ComiXology is offering the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129127,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/the-amazon-purchase-of-comixology-finally-begins-to-bear-fruit.html","url_meta":{"origin":43842,"position":1},"title":"The Amazon purchase of Comixology finally begins to bear fruit","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Dec-15 11:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As a serious user of both Amazon and Comixology, this is indeed a cool thing: purchasing e-versions of comics \/ graphic novels on Amazon makes them available to me on my Comixology account. 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