Thread: [GUI Plugin] Annotations (closed)
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Old 06-22-2013, 12:25 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by CtB View Post
Greg,
Thanks for the Annotations plug-in for Marvin [the BEST reader I've seen by far].

Maybe confused, a question: Your annotation button works in Calibre. I export all bookmarks/highlights from Marvin and get a .mrv file. I then drag it into your plug in. When I look at the metadata of the book in Calibre, the highlights are there [as "comments"].

However, if I open the book in Calibre [in the native e-book browser] or put in a DropBox and reimport into Marvin, all the bookmarks/highlights cannot be seen. In fact in Marvin, the bookmarks and highlights dialog boxes are blank (as if the bookmarks no longer exist and are lost).

I remember that there was early discussion that the .mrv (annotations) file would allow users to export/save their highlights/bookmarks, then re-import/restore them later or e-mail/send to friends to import into their copy of the Marvin book on their end.
Ideally, I would like my highlights/bookmarks to show up "in" my book when I restore them, not be hidden in a comments file OR send them to a friend and he imports the .mrv file and has a complete pre-highlighted book with all highlights/bookmarks where I want them to be in his copy for him to skim the important parts of the book faster.

Am I not re-importing the .mrv file properly (through your plug in)? Do I need to do something different to restore the highlights back into the Marvin book so they are visible? How do I e-mail/share the .mrv file to another Marvin user so he can see the highlighted book just as I highlighted it (not in an invisible "comments" file)?

Thanks!!
A couple of clarifications.
1) Annotations and highlights are never part of the book you're reading, they are created by Marvin externally to the book, and exported/extracted by the plugin. So you will never see the annotations/highlights in any reader other than Marvin. If that's a feature you're interested in, you should communicate that to Marvin's developer.
2) Sharing/reimporting your .MRV file to Marvin is also exclusively a Marvin feature that the plugin is not involved with. I would suggest you ask that question in this Marvin thread in the Apple forum.

Hope that helps.

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