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mihon new user guide

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Why does this exist

This is a guide that was originally made for Tachiyomi, a manga reader for android. Since the guide has been published, Tachiyomi perished under the scrutiny of lawyers. But since it was an open-source project, forks can be made. Fork people did and Mihon was created from the Tachiyomi 0.15 codebase. So far it seems to be working great, so I’ve decided to update this guide.

I love reading manga and I want more people to enjoy as much as I do. In my opinion the best way to consume this medium in digital form is in my opinion was to read it with Mihon which was created from Tachiyomi. If you somehow found your way to here and don’t know what Mihon is, it is an open source manga/manhwa/manhua, webtoons and comics (I will just write manga, but just replace it with your prefered type of media) reader for android (no iOS version sadly). I’ve used other apps before, but none of them could even be compared to the possibilities of Mihon (except obviously Tachiyomi rip, rip MangaRock, MangaZone). Forks of Mihon also exist, but I just like the base project for it’s relative simplicity and speed. If you’re using a fork I guess most of these settings will still work, but just be advised.

Anyways, what am I trying to achieve here exactly? I want to have a page I can point people new to manga to help start with their manga reading adventure. This article will guide you from the installation through the initial settings to how I use it to have a great manga consumption experience everyday.

Installation

To install Mihon, just go to mihon.app and hit download.

Mihon site

Post install

After you open Mihon for the first time you’ll get the welcome screen where you choose the theme. Choose whichever you like(more on themes in the settings section). Just go through the ootb etc.

Now we need to add repositories so you have where to download content from. In the app, go to Browse->Extensions->Three dots in the left corner->Extension repos->Add and paste this into the text box:

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keiyoushi/extensions/repo/index.min.json

Extension repos

Extensions

Before you can read any manga, you have to install these apps called extensions. These are basically sites for manga made compatible with Mihon. If you’re a neanderthal graduating from reading manga in a web browser, you might even be familiar with some of these. If you know/like any of these sites, download their extensions and install them. If you don’t know which ones to choose then pick randomly based on name, I personally have around 10-20 extensions installed. If you want recommendations:

Feel free to add or remove sources acording to your liking, customize them for what type of media you what; I personally don’t read western comics too much, but they are available on there.

To install them head over to Browse -> Extensions and search for them (click the looking glass)

Mihon extensions

Getting settled in

Let’s head over to the settings.

Appearance

Library

Now an important setting the Categories. I like to have the following categories: - Reading - The titles I am reading currently, they have unread chapters or have updated in the last month, if they haven’t updated and all chapters are read, I manually move them to the Dead category - Plan to read - The default category all titles go to when added - Dead - Titles that haven’t been updated for a month and have all read chapters - Dropped - Titles that I have stopped reading - Completed - Titles that have finished their production and I’ve completed them

Categories

You can add more if you want, but I would consider these categories to be the bare minimum for medium/large libraries

Categories

Reader

volumekeys

Downloads

Tracking

Sign in to your favorite status tracker. It tracks manga progress - Status, read chapters, start/end dates. You need to add them manually to every title in your library and ensure you pick the right one.

Data and Storage

Set backup frequency to 6 hours This backs up your library automatically, but it doesn’t back up settings. I also recommend backing up periodically to Google Drive, Mega or with Syncthing. The backups are stored in your mihon folder you set /mihon/autobackup/ so back up that folder.

How to add new titles

Okay, so after we’ve added sources, let’s begin to find titles you want to read. Click on the Browse section and make sure you are in the Sources tab, then click on the looking glass to search, type in your desired manga, I’ll search for Initial D for example.

Since we’ve installed a few extensions there will probably be a few results popping up, choose the one you think looks the best, has the most chapters(check not only by the last chapter number but with the number of total chapters), cross reference it with MAL.

Manga in library

We’re going to configure one of the last things to make the library view priettier. Click on the three horizontal lines(Filter icon) and go to Sort set it to Latest chapter with the arrow pointing downwards.

Library Display

Now it looks cleaner:

Cleaner library view

Reading vertical formats

Does your manhwa/manhua or webtoon look like this?:

Webtoon broken

Worry not, because there is an easy fix! Just click on the leftmost icon and change the reading mode from default to webtoon.

Webtoon fix

Epilogue

Wow you made it this far! I hope you found atleast some of the things in this guide useful. I would love if I started your digital manga reading journey. The only thing I’m hoping for is that as many people possible to this hobby are enjoying it as much as I do.

I’m still kinda sad that Tachiyomi is gone. I used it the longest out of all of the manga readers I’ve had and it was definitely my favourite. It provided stabillity and quality that was unheard of when I first started using it, so it meant that I could focus on reading manga instead of constantly hunting for new apps or sites. The last few updates came after a period of silence and kinda made me sad. They had changed the way backups work so my way of backing up stopped working. I decided to hold off on the updates because of that. Few days after I saw a reddit post announcing the bad news. I was really shocked and didn’t believe it at first, but it was real. Screw lawyers. Anyways, Mihon is a really good slot-in replacement, so it worked out fine.

Thanks again for reading, I hope to post more.

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