06-03-2013, 03:35 PM | #1516 |
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There are times I'm wondering why mankind hasn't yet suffered extinction due to laziness.
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06-03-2013, 04:02 PM | #1517 | |
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How long did it take you to get all the data into Calibre in the first place?? If calibre has an export function you can export a csv file and use that to import into the other program. |
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06-03-2013, 05:48 PM | #1518 | |
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Anyway, I think this might be turning into a different forum topic so I'll shut up now. |
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06-04-2013, 01:19 AM | #1519 | |
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Next to reading books i like the search for that next book that will captivate me. By having the info with me i can do this search in a book store, or on the train or ... CLZ Books could do all that if it was tightly integrated with Calibre, but it has its own catalog/cloud. Keeping different catalogs in sync is not my strong suit, i always end up with them being out of sync. Hope this clarifies things a bit, i tried all the suggestions in the previous posts, they ended up being a lot of work. Last edited by maxjens; 06-04-2013 at 01:34 AM. |
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06-05-2013, 01:20 AM | #1520 |
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Please add a menu autohide option. Yes I'm too lazy to tap in the middle to hide the menu in reading screen Make all built in iOS fonts available, particularly Optima. Thanks. |
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06-05-2013, 02:38 AM | #1521 |
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Noted.
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06-05-2013, 02:00 PM | #1522 |
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Another proposal (for way down the road)
Text to speech. It probably doesn't make sense financially to license it for general use, but you could partner with a TTS company and offer TTS as an in app purchase. The company will be selling access to their engine and voices through your app, and you get a cut of the purchase. (Most TTS companies have their own apps, but they usually have lousy epub reader and poor UI.). Your users who want TTS can get it; the rest can ignore. Win win win. I think TTS is pretty useful sometimes, eg, when I'm too tired to read. |
06-05-2013, 02:46 PM | #1523 |
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If they do purchase the TTS can you change the marvin icon to put lips below the glasses??
- Not putting down the suggestion - it's a great idea - just laughing! |
06-05-2013, 05:40 PM | #1524 |
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TTS would be a game changer. Does anyone do it on iOS to begin with?
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06-05-2013, 06:59 PM | #1525 |
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06-06-2013, 08:39 AM | #1526 |
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I concur. TTS in Voice Dream Reader is done really well.
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06-07-2013, 05:42 AM | #1527 |
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Hi,
I've recently installed Marvin on my iPad 3 (iOS 6.1.3). As you know, this app lets you easily change brightness, warmth and contrast of the page. I have some questions about this very feature: 1. I've noticed that the brightness control in Marvin is not app-bound, it sets the brightness for the whole iPad. Could this behaviour interfere with the iOS auto-brightness feature? 2. Are the warmth and contrast settings really app-bound as it seems? If so, what are their default values? Thanks Manosk |
06-07-2013, 05:49 AM | #1528 |
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@Manosk
1) Yes. Marvin controls hardware brightness. No. It doesn't interfere with auto-brightness. 2) Warmth and tint apply in the book only. The defaults are off for both. Tint only works if you have warmth dialled in. |
06-07-2013, 10:18 AM | #1529 |
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Was out for a few days and I noticed a bug on my iPad 1. But it is a very minor one and probably not worth correcting...
When you start the App with the iPad in an upside/down position (Connector on top), the App starts upside/down too during the small init phase and then moves the text correctly doing a 180° turn... Really NOT important... |
06-07-2013, 11:20 AM | #1530 |
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@Gurvan. You're right. The startup splash screen does not auto rotate. The next update will support upside-down portrait (not landscape).
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