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Kris,
My wife borrowed my iPad 2 on which I have Marvin loaded with about 1100 epubs. The last few days I have been using her Kindle Fire (1st generation, not the HD) which has the same 1100 library loaded as 1100 mobi books.
The biggest difference I notice is the absence of the long pause while the Marvin app opens and loads the library and the shorter pauses between chapters (which don't coincide with the actual chapters) in the book. To me these pauses are irritating to the point that I am considering not going back to Marvin. I understand that the latest Marvin update reduces these delays, but I don't understand why these pauses exist at all when the less sophisticated iBooks and the Kindle readers do not have them.
If (as I think you have said) these pauses are necessary due to Marvin frontloading data, what are the gains that this frontloading gives? Is it possible to configure the app settings to change this behavior? If not, can this be considered for future releases for those of us who prefer to be able to read a book seamlessly and to close the app or switch between books with no delay? If it helps, I don't use features such as annotation, and deep reading and would forgo them for smoothness.
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