Massive update!
Can't wait. Almost deserving of a
Version 2 designaton rather than
1.2.
(The only thing I'd miss after this one goes live is that inability to compare the relative length of books among each other. It's always a mystery, whenever I start reading a new book in Marvin, trying to figure out how long that book is going to be. Difficult to estimate the reading time required for a particular book if you have no idea how long any book really is. This destroys a bit the electronic "metaphor" relative to the world of paper books where all you need is to take a look at any book made of paper to get a rough idea of its demands in terms of reading time. Is it a slim novel like Conrad's
Heart of Darkness? Or just a short story/novelette like Kafkas's
Verwandlung? Or a mammoth like Tolstoy's
War and Peace? A booklet of several pages' length? There's currently no easy way to tell them apart in Marvin.)