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Originally Posted by crashnburn
then you have to realize that I may NEED more colors for HIGHLIGHTING even more  |
I absolutely agree that having an unlimited number of highlight colours in Marvin would be nice. I was only explaining why I understood Kris was not particularly keen on working on implementing
that particular feature wish.
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Originally Posted by crashnburn
K - I love Marvin but for some reason I like the way iBooks shows the LIST of Highlights and Annotations.
I can see the color and the context. I'd hope you can add this as a rendering option.
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What do you mean, crashnburn?
Marvin shows the colour & context of highlights and annotations in the list, too.
What
I would welcome, is if Marvin allowed us to
filter the display of highlights & annotations in the current list. That is: I might wish to see only blue highlights for a moment, or only blue & purple highlights for another moment, or all of them (as now)... I would welcome some kind of "smart switch" there. (Look at the old Mobipocket Reader in the desktop version... the annotations filter is very nicely done there!)
While you mention iBooks, the annotations there are an utter load of crap & totally unusable.
No reasonable, truly useful export options of annotations there (email is useless). The most outrageous shortcoming of iBooks annotations: if you comment on a passage, that passage will
not appear along with the annotation, when you export it!
This is silly beyond words. iBooks is just a big fail, as I see it. Not a
serious reading tool by any stretch of imagination; it only
pretends to be that; useless for scholarly purposes.
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Originally Posted by HAS
That's too bad  many professional books are PDF. |
I strongly disagree. Many
amateurish books are PDF -- and they (again) only
pretend to be professional. A true professional realizes perfectly that
PDF is an unusable, user-unfriendly format for electronic publishing, and makes the effort to publish everything that needs to be published, in the EPUB format instead.
Believe me I know what I'm saying here, because I'm professionally involved with publishers. It's human nature to be
lazy. Publishers are humans, therefore they are
lazy. (There are exceptions, as always.) You know why so many books are published in the unusable, rigid PDF format? Because publishers only need to press a button, and out comes a PDF file. In contrast, creating a truly usable EPUB edition of the same book, would require genuine effort on the part of publishers.
That said, I would welcome if Marvin one day supported the PDF format, too. But, at least on the level of quality offered by GoodReader today. Otherwise, I'm OK with GoodReader. I'd like to abandon the PDF format for good, and never see it again in my life -- but it just isn't realistic.
One reason is that publishers are lazy, and another reason (in relation to
scanned/photographed old editions of books) is that OCR software, in the present day (even the best of them, which is FineReader), still isn't smart enough to enable a fully automated conversion of scanned images into truly readable texts, and therefore acceptable EPUB editions. A lot of
manual effort is still required in 2013, to produce a good-quality EPUB edition. The EPUBs offered by archive.org, for example, are only parodies or imitations of legitimate EPUB editions.
