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02-09-2013, 02:12 PM | #797 |
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@edbro Not yet. Improving this is on my high priority list.
@Rhialto There is a problem in that Dropbox themselves only give me the first 1,000 results. I'm experimenting with a way to side-step this limit. @ProfCrash You'd be pleased to know that very soon, people who have their entire libraries in Marvin will experience much faster startup times. Marvin will start up between 5 and 10 times fasters especially in libraries containing 1,000s of books. I'm also working on a new method to organise libraries. @artbatista I think I found a way to "work around" the limitation without upsetting the DB people. |
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Rhialto, do you really have 2000 books in iBooks now? How are they organized? Quote:
I know this doesn't belong here, but I will follow those hints to the other threads and move up to higher levels of formatting. |
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Its fairly quick to select multiple books in iBooks and then drop them into a sub-library, and I have done this as I add them over the years. |
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Heck, I only have 400 books in Marvin. But the faster start up time will be appreciated.
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ProfCrash: It is noticeable. For instance, in my experiments, depending on the size of the ePubs, a library of 1200 books could take up to 90 seconds on an iPad 2. In the version I am working on it takes less than 5.
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Lots of good ideas here. I would settle for just being able when using Marvin to browse DropBox or a catalog to tell if the book is in Marvin's library.
However, one point - many of us have Wifi-only iPads, and are not always connected to the cloud; I commute every day on the subway and fly quite often. This is another reason I prefer to have my library available on my device, especially as its what I primarily use my iPad for. Quote:
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I have to do some clean up in Calibre but I love having my librry on one device. My Kindles are loaded. I just wish folks would answer the question at hand and not pontificat on why their way of using an app is best.
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(This presumes that you also have an iPhone and that the iPhone has access to mobile data, but I know this is true for many iPad owners.) |
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I was checking Marvin in my wife's ipad mini, which is set to Spanish. I noticed that in the USA Spanish iTunes site, there are no reviews, not even descriptions of the app.
Disappointing to say the least...... Art |
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I've had Marvin warn me that a book I was attempting to download (from Calibre server) was already in my library, but I don't know what would happen if I already had it and then tried to download the same book from another source.
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The same warning would pop up. In fact, Marvin wouldn't particularly examine if the two files are truly identical -- it seems to go by file name only, and if you attempt to load a book with the same filename as already used by another book in your Marvin Library, Marvin will refuse to load the second book.
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02-10-2013, 03:14 AM | #810 |
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Bad eyes
I showed the Marvin app to someone who has only one eye for reading. Due to the many features in the reading section the person (80 years old), can read the books better than normal books.
Than i showed the library section and like ibooks or stanza or shubook the images are so small that these cannot be read by someone with an eye problem. Also the text going with books was to small. So my request to you is: "is it possible to enlarge the text just like in the reading section and / or make the image much larger? By the way i was amazed at how much text i could get on the screen when using very large letters and tweaking margins etc. I think this is the power of Marvin. The size used is almost as large as the font on the ipad keypad (ipad1). |
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