What are CBR, CBZ, CBT, RAR, ZIP and TAR files?
Computer files are generally compressed into archive data sets to save space and to organize information better. Common archives are RAR, ZIP and TAR. Comics have a “special†set of extensions to designate them as “comicsâ€. CBR, CBZ and TAR files are comic archive files. A [...]
 Comic Book Reder – .cbr files and .cbz files
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The Windows Image Viewer ‘CDisplay’ was written to ease the viewing of images in JPEG, PNG and static GIF format. This was partly down to the existing programs currently available being too general purpose and thus awkward to use when simply [...]
Files with a “.cbr” extension are basically a compressed set of JPG, PNG, or GIF images.
You can open them with the freeware program CDisplay (a comic book reader software).
Available here: http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay.html
You can open .cbr files with WinRar (they are just .rar files with the file extension changed)
And .cbz [...]