11-21-2013, 11:51 AM | #1 |
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Marvin as a cloud front-end
Love the app. I imagine one version will make Marvin easier to update?
What I would love to see is a move away from the library is on the device to a model where Marvin is a viewer of the library in a cloud storage location, this is surely more realistic than you keep all your ebooks on your phone which seems to be the current approach. You could then download local ones as you need - multiple books if necessary. Real automatic syncing where it always goes to the furthest page across your devices. Thanks Ian |
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Congrats to Kris on the baby Marvin's 1st birthday! There's still a long way ahead in improving the app, but even in its current state, it is, hands down, the finest e-reader software I've ever encountered on any platform. |
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You can use - Dropbox to access the most recent 1000 books (Dropbox API limitation), - use the OPDS function to access *any* OPDS-compatible feed (OPDS being the de-facto standard), e. g. Calibre server and - the built-in web browser allows you to access almost any website (e. g. some random cloud service) which stores your ebooks. Time to celebrate, eh? ;-) Synching is always just one tap away (the cloud icon in the lower left corner when you're reading). I agree, though, that an *option* for automatic synching would be nice. |
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Of course, this is easier said than done. Kindle is a primitive app, so with the limited functionality the Kindle library provides, it's easy for them to achieve what taguntumi and myself would like to see in Marvin. (The Dropbox, OPDS and web browser interfaces are completely different things.) I have posted taguntumi's suggestion to GitHub: https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/226 Quote:
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By the way, this again shows the value of taguntumi's Library proposition: if Marvin's Library were (also) cloud-based, then I would automatically get to see the same books in both Marvins (in both of their Libraries). As it is now, I need to load every book manually into each of the two Marvins on iPad, then again on iPhone, and finally on iPad 1. That is 4 repetitive, manual steps that a cloud-based Library could reduce to a single step. (I'm not counting the "push cloud button to download book" action as a manual step, because that's trivial and non-time-consuming.) |
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With regard to syncing, my point was two fold. It would be great if it was automatic, but also if it was more reliable as it sometimes asks me if I want to go to a page from another device which is earlier than the page displayed on the current device. Thanks Ian |
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That's a feature (one I don't like either - it should never sync backwards, that just doesn't make much sense), not a bug. Some people seem to think synching backwards is just the thing. |
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Of course. Ian and myself might put our main Libraries in the cloud, and you might not. No problem.
I can't quite agree -- a purported feature behaving, in effect, like a bug might as well be called a bug. Besides, some of the current syncs may be performed against the will of the user at inopportune moments (your nightly reading situation you once described), putting the "last read" position backwards without the user realizing it happened. We really need syncing configurability along the lines proposed by Art (he also mentioned the aspect of backwards syncing; you might simply disable such syncing, and that's it). |
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There are fringe cases for syncing backwards for instance, a complete works collection, instructional book, recipe book, short story collection, or other type of book which you might not be reading from front to back.
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