Mokuro: Read Japanese manga with selectable text inside a browser

This exactly. I’m not kidding when I say that cbz files are literally just renamed zips. It’s a pretty common technique in software development. Take a zip file, since most things can read and write zips easily, and then just rename it. Even I used it once.

Similarly, cbz is actually a family of file formats:

  • cbz → zip
  • cbr → rar
  • crt → tar
  • cb7 → 7z
  • cba → ace
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