01-04-2013, 01:49 PM | #481 |
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Thanks kguil, that sounds absolutely wonderful/perfect.
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01-04-2013, 02:01 PM | #482 |
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Turtle, parental controls on specific books is a brilliant idea. I will definitely be adding it to 1.3.
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01-04-2013, 08:58 PM | #483 | |
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I was just wondering because with Windows 8 and it's support for touch/apps there are more tablets coming out being run by windows. I'm looking at getting the Surface Pro when it comes out later this month...Just imagine...a fully operational windows machine in a tablet...I could edit/create my epubs with Sigil/Calibre and read them with Marvin all on the same machine while I'm on the road!! Sweet!!! But, until that day....I will remain VERY happy with an iPad/iPhone solution for reading. Last edited by Turtle91; 01-04-2013 at 09:08 PM. |
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01-04-2013, 09:41 PM | #484 | |
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I was asking about the Windows version because if there's going to be a "metro" Marvin one day, it will probably pass me by. I'm staying away from Windows 8 in any shape or form, although my main desktop machine is a Windows 7 (supplemented by a MacBook running both Mac OS and Windows 7). Then again, Marvin would make little sense on Windows 7 (or Mac OS) because we don't really use those OSs to read e-books nowadays anymore; this is no longer the 1990s or early 2000s. I already have that... an Acer tablet running full-blown Windows 7, and it's awful. As clunky and awkward to handle as one might expect a mobile Microsoft offering to be (sorry). Impossible to read on it reasonably, so I'm not even listing it among my reading devices here on MobileRead. Yeah, Windows 8 is supposed to be geared better towards tablets, but I have had too long a history of acute suffering with Windows mobile devices, going back to the pre-iPhone era and various PDAs running Windows Mobile. The only bright spot in using them was the superb Mobipocket Reader, until Amazon bought it and intentionally stifled it, just like they did it with Stanza on iOS. Those memories are a nightmare, and I just have zero trust in the platform, although I realize Windows 8 was written from scratch. Time will tell, but right now I'd say odds are heavily against Windows tablets being a platform significant enough to warrant the development of a Marvin version tailored for it, "metro" or not. I may be wrong. Last edited by Faterson; 01-04-2013 at 09:44 PM. |
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01-04-2013, 09:46 PM | #485 |
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Although I've been using a mac for just over a year, I'm quite fond of Windows (I've been on it for a very, very long time). I played around with a friend's Surface RT and quite liked it. Unfortunately it's the lack of apps that is a problem - the hardware is very nicely made.
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01-04-2013, 10:00 PM | #486 |
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Me too, since version 3.11. People in Europe, particularly those from multi-lingual environments, are more likely to be "Windows-bred" than "Mac-bred", because Macs used to struggle hugely back in the 1990s when handling multilingual tasks. Things are better nowadays, but on the MacBook where I'm running both Mountain Lion and Windows 7, I actually prefer working in the Win 7 environment most of the time; in certain respects, Win 7 strikes me as a smarter OS than Mountain Lion. I have zero interest in Windows 8, though, because artificially trying to wed two entirely different user interfaces in a single OS strikes me as outlandish, and upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 (having skipped Vista, obviously) was a nightmare, and I don't want to go through all that again so soon after the initial Windows 7 release.
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If Kris rethinks his decision to keep Marvin free - which I highly recommend; he deserves to be compensated for his outstanding efforts - he would have found the pot-o-gold at the end of the rainbow! Last edited by Turtle91; 01-04-2013 at 11:03 PM. |
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I'll get the iPhone version out of the way first and then play it by ear. To be honest, I've toying with the idea of working on a Windows version after iOS.
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Aaargh, I definitely wouldn't give preference to Windows over Android. Especially in the mobile-phone space, iOS is getting destroyed by Android, and Windows is a non-entity there. Why develop an app for a small number of users, if there's an opportunity to develop it for huge numbers of users first?
As to what Turtle91 says, I agree, but this presumes wide-spread adoption of Windows 8, which I don't currently see happening, and it's questionable if it's ever going to happen on tablets and mobile phones. Last time I checked, Windows had about 3% market share among mobile phones, while the leader Android had dozens of percent. As to desktop PCs and laptops, I predict Windows 8 will turn out to be as unpopular as Vista, but it's too early to tell today, and I may well be wrong. Last edited by Faterson; 01-04-2013 at 11:15 PM. |
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Faterson, I understand. Hopefully, by the time I've got iOS completely covered with the release of the iPhone version, things will be a bit more clear. As it stands, Android is objectively the obvious choice.
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01-05-2013, 06:29 AM | #492 |
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Just added one last feature before wrapping up 1.2. You can compute and see word counts on a per-book basis in the library.
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You can sort authors both ways.
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