diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 343c37b63..ef856c786 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -447,4 +447,5 @@ appsettings.json
 /API/kavita.db-shm
 /API/kavita.db-wal
 /API/Hangfire.db
-/API/Hangfire-log.db
\ No newline at end of file
+/API/Hangfire-log.db
+cache/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/API/Controllers/ReaderController.cs b/API/Controllers/ReaderController.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3251cce69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/API/Controllers/ReaderController.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+using System;
+using System.IO.Compression;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using API.Entities;
+using API.Interfaces;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+
+namespace API.Controllers
+{
+    public class ReaderController : BaseApiController
+    {
+        private readonly ISeriesRepository _seriesRepository;
+        private readonly IDirectoryService _directoryService;
+
+        public ReaderController(ISeriesRepository seriesRepository, IDirectoryService directoryService)
+        {
+            _seriesRepository = seriesRepository;
+            _directoryService = directoryService;
+        }
+
+        [HttpGet("info")]
+        public async Task<ActionResult<int>> GetInformation(int volumeId)
+        {
+            Volume volume = await _seriesRepository.GetVolumeAsync(volumeId);
+            
+            // Assume we always get first Manga File
+            if (volume == null || !volume.Files.Any())
+            {
+                return BadRequest("There are no files in the volume to read.");
+            }
+
+            var filepath = volume.Files.ElementAt(0).FilePath;
+
+            var extractPath = _directoryService.ExtractArchive(filepath, volumeId);
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(extractPath))
+            {
+                return BadRequest("There file is no longer there or has no images. Please rescan.");
+            }
+
+            return Ok(_directoryService.ListFiles(extractPath).Count());
+        }
+        
+        
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/API/Data/SeriesRepository.cs b/API/Data/SeriesRepository.cs
index bed3bb093..585ff0de2 100644
--- a/API/Data/SeriesRepository.cs
+++ b/API/Data/SeriesRepository.cs
@@ -76,5 +76,12 @@ namespace API.Data
             return await _context.Series.Where(x => x.Id == seriesId)
                 .ProjectTo<SeriesDto>(_mapper.ConfigurationProvider).SingleAsync();
         }
+
+        public async Task<Volume> GetVolumeAsync(int volumeId)
+        {
+            return await _context.Volume
+                .Include(vol => vol.Files)
+                .SingleOrDefaultAsync(vol => vol.Id == volumeId);
+        }
     }
 }
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diff --git a/API/Entities/AppUser.cs b/API/Entities/AppUser.cs
index 7b7dfe8f4..9e66a7d00 100644
--- a/API/Entities/AppUser.cs
+++ b/API/Entities/AppUser.cs
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ namespace API.Entities
         public uint RowVersion { get; set; }
         
         public ICollection<AppUserRole> UserRoles { get; set; }
+        
+        //public ICollection<SeriesProgress> SeriesProgresses { get; set; }
 
         public void OnSavingChanges()
         {
diff --git a/API/Interfaces/IDirectoryService.cs b/API/Interfaces/IDirectoryService.cs
index f8e0f7100..c938e9685 100644
--- a/API/Interfaces/IDirectoryService.cs
+++ b/API/Interfaces/IDirectoryService.cs
@@ -4,8 +4,38 @@ namespace API.Interfaces
 {
     public interface IDirectoryService
     {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Lists out top-level folders for a given directory. Filters out System and Hidden folders.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="rootPath">Absolute path of directory to scan.</param>
+        /// <returns>List of folder names</returns>
         IEnumerable<string> ListDirectory(string rootPath);
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Lists out top-level files for a given directory.
+        /// TODO: Implement ability to provide a filter for file types
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="rootPath">Absolute path </param>
+        /// <returns>List of folder names</returns>
+        IEnumerable<string> ListFiles(string rootPath);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Given a library id, scans folders for said library. Parses files and generates DB updates. Will overwrite
+        /// cover images if forceUpdate is true.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="libraryId">Library to scan against</param>
+        /// <param name="forceUpdate">Force overwriting for cover images</param>
         void ScanLibrary(int libraryId, bool forceUpdate);
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Extracts an archive to a temp cache directory. Returns path to new directory. If temp cache directory already exists,
+        /// will return that without performing an extraction. Returns empty string if there are any invalidations which would
+        /// prevent operations to perform correctly (missing archivePath file, empty archive, etc).
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="archivePath">A valid file to an archive file.</param>
+        /// <param name="volumeId">Id of volume being extracted.</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        string ExtractArchive(string archivePath, int volumeId);
+        
     }
 }
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diff --git a/API/Interfaces/ISeriesRepository.cs b/API/Interfaces/ISeriesRepository.cs
index fe2a6b6b3..1320788ee 100644
--- a/API/Interfaces/ISeriesRepository.cs
+++ b/API/Interfaces/ISeriesRepository.cs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ namespace API.Interfaces
         Task<IEnumerable<VolumeDto>> GetVolumesDtoAsync(int seriesId);
         IEnumerable<Volume> GetVolumes(int seriesId);
         Task<SeriesDto> GetSeriesDtoByIdAsync(int seriesId);
-        
+
+        Task<Volume> GetVolumeAsync(int volumeId);
     }
 }
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diff --git a/API/Services/DirectoryService.cs b/API/Services/DirectoryService.cs
index 3adfae100..379d07467 100644
--- a/API/Services/DirectoryService.cs
+++ b/API/Services/DirectoryService.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Collections.Immutable;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using System.Threading;
@@ -51,11 +52,6 @@ namespace API.Services
                 reSearchPattern.IsMatch(Path.GetExtension(file)));
        }
        
-       /// <summary>
-        /// Lists out top-level folders for a given directory. Filters out System and Hidden folders.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="rootPath">Absolute path </param>
-        /// <returns>List of folder names</returns>
         public IEnumerable<string> ListDirectory(string rootPath)
         {
            if (!Directory.Exists(rootPath)) return ImmutableList<string>.Empty;
@@ -69,6 +65,12 @@ namespace API.Services
             return dirs;
         }
 
+       public IEnumerable<string> ListFiles(string rootPath)
+       {
+          if (!Directory.Exists(rootPath)) return ImmutableList<string>.Empty;
+          return Directory.GetFiles(rootPath);
+       }
+
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Processes files found during a library scan. Generates a collection of series->volume->files for DB processing later.
@@ -153,7 +155,7 @@ namespace API.Services
                 {
                    new MangaFile()
                    {
-                      FilePath = info.File
+                      FilePath = info.FullFilePath
                    }
                 };
 
@@ -189,6 +191,7 @@ namespace API.Services
 
         public void ScanLibrary(int libraryId, bool forceUpdate)
         {
+           var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            var library = Task.Run(() => _libraryRepository.GetLibraryForIdAsync(libraryId)).Result;
            _scannedSeries = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, ConcurrentBag<ParserInfo>>();
            _logger.LogInformation($"Beginning scan on {library.Name}");
@@ -239,6 +242,35 @@ namespace API.Services
            }
 
            _scannedSeries = null;
+           Console.WriteLine("Processed {0} files in {1} milliseconds", library.Name, sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
+        }
+        
+        
+
+        public string ExtractArchive(string archivePath, int volumeId)
+        {
+           if (!File.Exists(archivePath) || !Parser.Parser.IsArchive(archivePath))
+           {
+              _logger.LogError($"Archive {archivePath} could not be found.");
+              return "";
+           }
+           
+           var extractPath = Path.Join(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), $"../cache/{volumeId}/");
+
+           if (Directory.Exists(extractPath))
+           {
+              _logger.LogInformation($"Archive {archivePath} has already been extracted. Returning existing folder.");
+              return extractPath;
+           }
+           
+           using ZipArchive archive = ZipFile.OpenRead(archivePath);
+           
+           if (archive.Entries.Count <= 0) return "";
+            
+           archive.ExtractToDirectory(extractPath);
+           _logger.LogInformation($"Extracting archive to {extractPath}");
+
+           return extractPath;
         }
 
         private static void TraverseTreeParallelForEach(string root, Action<string> action)
diff --git a/images/Image-1.jpg b/images/Image-1.jpg
deleted file mode 100644
index b4dfd57c6..000000000
Binary files a/images/Image-1.jpg and /dev/null differ