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Originally Posted by MeSue
You CAN view unlimited books in Marvin free, they just have to be tagged differently or by different authors.
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That's a
huge usability hurdle. Sorry, but it's a textbook example of the type of pain in the a** that a "free" app can be.
It would be a lot less pain (at least to me) to instantly part with $5 than having to go through that. Actually, this type of limitations is why I think Apple forbids the official use of "trial" versions -- they just don't wish for their App Store to offer apps with such severely limited basic functionality. It may create a bad image not just for the app itself, but for the entire App Store.
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Originally Posted by MeSue
Or simply load one, check whatever you need to, delete it, and load another.
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And this is even
worse. Delete a book that one has not even read?
And, like I said, I need to
compare the display of various books in my testing. Load book A, then B, then C, then B and A again, check D, check E, then B, C, A once more... and only then the initial assessment can be made about the quality of an e-reader app.
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Originally Posted by MeSue
You're a unique guy!
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Everyone is unique.
Furthermore, I don't think that a desire to read more than a single book at a time, without having to jump through absurd hurdles (see above), is in any way "unique". If I had to place a bet on it, I'd say perhaps
most people enjoy reading more than a single book at a time. (I admit that reading
7 books simultaneously
is untypical.)
If Kris changed the Marvin Free limit to: "display 10 books, load unlimited books" -- then I'd find such a limit perfectly acceptable.
But regarding a "display only 1 book" limit, only one adjective comes to mind:
draconian.
