Thread: Marvin as a cloud front-end
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Old 11-21-2013, 04:28 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Faterson View Post
That's not what taguntumi and myself have in mind, Wulf. We'd like to have the same very nice user interface offered by Marvin's Library now, except that (most of) the book files themselves could be (optionally!) stored in the cloud, instead of locally as now. Look at the Kindle app: two Library divisions there -- one for "files on device", another (with the same interface!) for "files everywhere" (device + cloud). That's what I'd like to see in Marvin, too.

Of course, this is easier said than done. Kindle is a primitive app, so with the limited functionality the Kindle library provides, it's easy for them to achieve what taguntumi and myself would like to see in Marvin. (The Dropbox, OPDS and web browser interfaces are completely different things.)

I have posted taguntumi's suggestion to GitHub:

https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/226



You bet! The best proposal on this, by far, was made by our fellow user Artbatista several months ago, see here:

https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/112
Exactly. At the moment Dropbox is a source of books but the main library is deemed to be on the device, I'd like to see that switched. I am using Calibre but finding it bit clunky I probably need to play with it a bit more.

With regard to syncing, my point was two fold. It would be great if it was automatic, but also if it was more reliable as it sometimes asks me if I want to go to a page from another device which is earlier than the page displayed on the current device.

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