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Reorder pages, drop the blanks and ads

Scanned volumes carry baggage: credit pages in the wrong place, duplicated covers, blank filler, scanlator ads between chapters. The planned page tool puts a thumbnail grid in front of conversion, where you drag pages into order and delete the ones that do not belong, so the file that reaches your e-reader contains the story and nothing else. We are being straight with you: it is not live yet, so this page does not offer it.

Half of this is live today. The Pages tab in the Studio shows every page of the open file as a grid of thumbnails, and each page has a menu with Remove, Restore and Set as cover; Select many removes a whole set at once. Removed pages stay in the grid, dimmed and still numbered, so nothing is destroyed. What is still planned is the reorder half: Move to sits in the page menu marked Soon. The converter takes pages in the order the archive provides them, which for a well-made CBZ is the right order already.

The page reorder tool is coming soon

This tool is planned, not live yet. Convert with the live preview in the meantime.

See the tools that are live today Vote for this feature on the roadmap

What the page tool will do

  1. See every page as a grid

    Thumbnails of the whole volume at a glance, in current order, so a misplaced credits page or duplicated cover is visible immediately.

  2. Drag into order

    Reordering would be a drag, literally: pick up the stray page and drop it where it belongs. Natural sort quirks stop mattering.

  3. Delete the filler (live today)

    Blanks, ads and duplicate scans are removed before conversion from the Pages tab, so they never cost screen turns on the device. Restore brings a page back; nothing is destroyed until you convert.

  4. Until then: remove, restore, set the cover

    The Pages tab and its page menu are live. Reordering is the row marked Soon in that menu, so you can already see where it will be.

Honesty first

A reorder tool that silently re-sorts on export would corrupt reading order, the worst possible bug for manga. It arrives here when the order you set is verifiably the order that ships.

The live tools help now

The Pages tab with remove, restore and set as cover, conversion, spread handling, margin cropping and the page-by-page preview are live today, so most volumes reach your reader clean without repacking anything by hand.

Frequently asked questions

Can I reorder or delete pages here right now?

Delete, yes: open a file in the Studio, switch to the Pages tab, tap a page and choose Remove page (or Select many for a set). Reorder, not yet, and we will not pretend otherwise: Move to is in the page menu marked Soon. The converter respects the archive order in the meantime.

My pages come out in the wrong order. Why?

Almost always filename sorting: page 10 sorting before page 2 because the numbers are not zero-padded. Renaming with padded numbers (001, 002, ...) before zipping fixes the order at the source today.

Will it handle removing pages from a huge volume?

That is the plan: the grid is built for whole volumes, so clearing twenty ad pages from a 400-page omnibus is a minute of clicking, not an evening in an archive tool.

Will you announce when it is ready?

Yes. When the page tool ships it goes live on this page and the tools hub links to it. You can vote for it on the roadmap in the meantime.

MangaConverter runs on Kindle Comic Converter (KCC), the open-source engine, for the conversions that are live today. The page reorder tool is a planned step in front of that pipeline, and this page will host it honestly once it works.