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09-13-2013, 09:09 PM | #108 |
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I did have to update my iOS to the newest one... I had been lazy about it. I honestly didn't remember that the new version didn't have the Google Maps app but I'm glad to hear that you can download it. I'll be doing that in just a bit. I don't use it often as I have a regular portable GPS that I use on vacations but you never know when you need a backup or a quick point in the right direction with using Google Maps on the phone
I'm just starting to get things set up the way I like them and I'm playing around with syncing the book that I'm reading. It doesn't seem to bring the book up to the exact paragraph I was reading.... maybe just close but I'm still playing around with it and learning. Any hints or tips on the syncing?? |
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I did find a question... I know in the iPad version, if you want to see the time and battery power at the top of the screen, you had to tap near the top. So far, same on the phone but is there any way that there can be a setting to leave that feature ON? I do happen to use the clock and battery power indicator a lot. Especially as I read while at lunch and, with only 30 min, I just want to glance up while reading, to see how much time I have left and not have to tap the screen.
If this isn't already in the program, I think I saw an area to submit requests... didn't I?? |
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09-15-2013, 11:00 AM | #112 | ||
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Yup, I know. I already looked at all the options, way, methods of how I can utilize Google Map app. For now, I don't think it's quite there to be useful for me. Probably in another year. On my iPad Mini, I use both AppleMap and GoogleMap app. Neither is as seamless as the native and integrated GoogleMap. Anyways, moving back on track to this current thread... As I already said before, I didn't want to go off in a another tangent discussion on iOS pros and cons, blah blah blah. The original posting was, at the end of the day, meant as a compliment to the developers for their hard work in putting forth two amazing products, of which, I can only use the iPad version (for now). Last edited by FatCatElvis; 09-15-2013 at 11:18 AM. |
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Again, you gotta be kidding me. It's the same app, or even better (because in an updated version directly fom Google), so it's at least just as useful, but very likely more useful than the old integrated Google maps. The iOS 6 Google maps are just as native as iOS 5 maps; they just aren't default iOS maps any longer. But to each their own... some people enjoy inflicting unnecessary suffering on themselves, and it's not for us to deny them those pleasures. |
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09-17-2013, 09:47 AM | #115 |
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09-17-2013, 12:30 PM | #116 |
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Bought it. Now I have to figure out the easiest -- preferably automatic -- method to put my books in Dropbox so that I can take advantage of device syncing.
(I've all but abandoned managing my books offline. Now that all my readers have wi-fi, I download my books directly from the sites where I've purchased them. Once or twice a year I'll go out and round them up to save and organize in Calibre, but my library is all on my external hard drive, not in any accessible cloud. It looks like I'll be changing that -- this will make it worth the effort.) |
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That is a misunderstanding, just covered in another thread. There is no relation, in Marvin, between storing books and syncing books. You do not need to store any books in Dropbox in order to use Dropbox syncing. Dropbox is just the external "engine" that drives the syncing of books already internally stored in Marvin -- that's all. |
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You do -- but you could load the book onto those devices in any way you please: by emailing it to yourself, or downloading it from a webpage, or opening it from an alternative cloud app like SugarSync, Box.net or Copy.com. You never need to put any book into Dropbox in order to use Dropbox syncing.
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Thanks for setting me straight -- as I dig into the app, I'm realizing why everyone is so excited over yet *another* reader app. (I'm getting excited about it too. ) |
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