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title: Reading local manga
lang: en-US
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# Reading local manga

Since `v0.5.0`, Tachiyomi supports local manga.

You have to place your manga inside the folder `Tachiyomi/local` located in
the root of your internal storage or external SD card, usually `/sdcard`
and `/storage/18F5-2C11` (with different values).

After that, they will be shown in the catalogue as a new source. **Remember to
give the app disk permissions on Android 6.0 and higher**. If you add more
chapters later you'll have to manually refresh the chapter list
(by pulling down the list).

Supported chapter formats are directories with pictures inside, ZIP/CBZ,
RAR/CBR and EPUB. But expect better performance with directories and ZIP/CBZ.

You can also place your chapters or manga in both storages and Tachiyomi
will merge them. For example, with

`/sdcard/Tachiyomi/local/my manga/ch1`

and

`/storage/18F5-2C11/Tachiyomi/local/my manga/ch2`

the app will see two chapters in a single manga.

The path to the folder (or archive) with images must contain both the
manga title and the chapter name (as seen above).

You can then access the manga in `Catalogues > Local manga`.