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Old 02-09-2013, 01:46 PM   #796
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I have tried this Alex, doesn't work. Dropbox loads 1000 books, apparently at random, then sorts those 1000 books by "newest". Those may or may not be the latest 1000 books.

As I said, the Dropbox API is broken in my opinion.
That's too bad.

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I sent correspondence to Dropbox about the 1000 items limitation, got zero, zip, zilch, nada, no response to multiple queries.
Well, of course! Dropbox is now a big corporation, right? It almost seems like natural law: as soon as you become a big corporation, the quality of your customer support drops down to zero. Whereas here we have Marvin, created by what seems like a company of one person, and the customer support is superb. Isn't that highly ironic? One might expect that among the thousands of people on their staff, the corporations would find enough employees to take care of the corporation's customers properly. But nope, that's unlikely to happen. Instead, it's likely for Dropbox to follow in the footsteps of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and practically every other corporation out there, in offering atrocious customer support, or frequently no support whatsoever.

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A related (futuristic?) feature wish I might submit: not sure if this is technically possible, but I would welcome if Marvin indicated to us, while we're browsing the Drobpox listing of books, or an OPDS catalog, that we already have a particular e-book stored in Marvin at that moment. There could be a check-mark shown next to a book title, or something similar, telling us we don't need to bother downloading that particular book into Marvin, because it's already there in Marvin's Library.
I must correct myself here: Marvin does indicate the presence of a book in Marvin's Library by the missing cloud icon next to the book title in the Dropbox listing. But there is no such feature while browsing OPDS catalogues, or (obviously) book websites. Not a big deal to me, only a "would be nice to have" feature.

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