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Originally Posted by jswinden
So no, I'll not name names. Not that I should have to as it is fairly obvious who got post happy in that thread, at least early on.  |
I for one have no idea whom you mean, and don't really care. I happened to register in this forum back in 2011, but only made my first post -- in the Marvin thread -- in December 2012, because previously I had been just too apathetic and depressed about the lack of quality e-reader software in iOS, to bother with contributing here. Depressed especially by Stanza's death at the hands of Amazon. Then, miraculously, Marvin appeared out of the blue -- and it's better than Stanza ever was.
Although I'm a huge Marvin fan, I believe dedicating an entire forum section here to Marvin would be over-the-top. I'm fine with the single thread -- although as soon as Marvin for iPhone appears (in the summer), the thread should be renamed to (for example)
Marvin ePub reader for iOS.
Much as I love Marvin, it's not (yet) an all-purpose e-reading solution for iOS at this point. In order to be that, Marvin would need to offer at least 2 more extremely advanced features:
- reading DRM-protected books (including those purchased from Amazon or Apple, etc., or borrowed from electronic libraries)
- reading and annotating PDF files -- at least on the level of quality in GoodReader, which is an extremely high level. Much as I hate PDF files and avoid them whenever I can, many books (especially scanned/photographed old editions) are only available as PDF files, no EPUB files, and conversion is impracticable. This means that, on a daily basis, my reading is split about 50/50 between Marvin and GoodReader. Whenever I can, I escape from GoodReader to Marvin -- but it often isn't possible, unfortunately.
At the same time, there is still a
huge amount of work ahead of Kris in order to fully develop and polish Marvin's current EPUB functionality -- so that it would be unwise trying to support DRM or PDF, before
everything related to EPUB works as smoothly in Marvin as can possibly be achieved.