Allow for loading images for future chapters

[slg407]

Describe your suggested feature

this is especially helpful for when chapters only have one image (for example, comics that load one page per chapter), it would add an option in the reader settings to load a certain number of future chapters to cache (as if you scrolled through them) to allow for seamless reading, without having to wait for images to load, this is the same as the "images to preload" setting present in nclient (nsfw)

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[krysanify]

Feature already exists.

[slg407]

Feature already exists.

this is not what i mean, preloading chapters as you read them should be set universally, and it is not the same as downloading chapters, it should be available without adding the content to your library, and should only download to cache, not to your device in any permanent manner

its a "load next images (including images from the next chapters) while reading" and a way to set the amount of images being preloaded, so if you are reading something with one image per chapter and you set it to 5 it loads the next 5 chapters while you are reading automatically, no matter what you are reading, its not downloading images, just pre-fetching them

[krysanify]

should be available without adding the content to your library

You can download chapters without adding it to library.

should only download to cache, not to your device in any permanent manner.

You can enable auto-deletion after reading if you don't want them to be permanently stored. Technically, prefetching/download to cache is even more permanent because those pages are not deleted unless you explicitly clear the app cache.

so if you are reading something with one image per chapter and you set it to 5 it loads the next 5 chapters while you are reading automatically

You do know you can read them as they're being downloaded, right? Let's say you download Next 5 chapters, you can read the first one while the rest is being loaded. And if your reading speed is faster than the download speed, you'd still see the same loading circle whether you call it downloading or prefetching.

[slg407]

should be available without adding the content to your library

You can download chapters without adding it to library.

should only download to cache, not to your device in any permanent manner.

You can enable auto-deletion after reading if you don't want them to be permanently stored. Technically, prefetching/download to cache is even more permanent because those pages are not deleted unless you explicitly clear the app cache.

so if you are reading something with one image per chapter and you set it to 5 it loads the next 5 chapters while you are reading automatically

You do know you can read them as they're being downloaded, right? Let's say you download Next 5 chapters, you can read the first one while the rest is being loaded. And if your reading speed is faster than the download speed, you'd still see the same loading circle whether you call it downloading or prefetching.

that is at best a temporary solution, at worst just straight up an annoying one, having to manually select "download the next x chapters" every time you reach the end of the chapters you downloaded is a horrible fix that does not address the reason why this idea even exists in the first place, autodeleting after reading implies that i am going to read all of it, sometimes I'm just browsing, and having to manually delete 10 chapters from like 8 series i didn't enjoy each is a pain in my rear, this would be a massive QOL improvement, images stored in cache are not accessible in locations that users normally have access to.

also the download function in anyomi is as reliable as the engine on an old Peugeot, half the time it does not work (and its probably because of half the extensions I'm using not being super well made, but still, not a good option, but this is an issue for another time)

[krysanify]

I'm sensing contradictions in your requirements: you don't want to manually downloading next 5 chapters for a manga of your choice because: 1) you may not read them through, and 2) they make a mess in your download folder.

BUT you are okay with automatically downloading next 5 chapters for every manga that you read, regardless 1) you read them through or not, and 2) as long as you don't see them piling up in your cache folder.

Yeah, I'm done here and will leave it to others to make sense of it.

[slg407]

I'm sensing contradictions in your requirements: you don't want to manually downloading next 5 chapters for a manga of your choice because: 1) you may not read them through, and 2) they make a mess in your download folder.

BUT you are okay with automatically downloading next 5 chapters for every manga that you read, regardless 1) you read them through or not, and 2) as long as you don't see them piling up in your cache folder.

Yeah, I'm done here and will leave it to others to make sense of it.

you are making this more complicated than it has to be, look over at the nclient reader, and you will see that the preload feature is separate from the download feature, for good reason too, they serve completely different purposes