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Originally Posted by Faterson
Attached is a screenshot showing three Marvins  happily coexisting on my iPad currently: new universal Marvin, original Marvin for iPad, and Marvin Free. This allows me to have three books open in Marvin at the same time.  |
Guess your location sync is now working overtime
BTW. @Kris,
I read a mention about a cloud based library? Not sure how different that would be from having them in say Calibre and accessible via OPDS, like Faterson already implied without probably realizing, you still would need to download it...maybe not directly needing to look for it, but that depends how many books in your library...otoh, if you got many you would be just as fast locating the same book in your Calibre's OPDS feed and downloading from there I imagine.
But, I do see another alternative approach here. One that might make an already existing feature a bit more polished. I believe that it is still the case that you need the same book in both iPhone and iPad for location sync to work, right? and if I am not mistaken, you also need a Dropbox account to be able to use location sync in the first place. So why not enhance the location sync such that if you enable it for a book, that book is sent with the location sync data to your dropbox account and in the 'other' device the book would show up with that cloud icon Faterson mentioned.
This is assuming that Marvin has some way of telling that location sync data is available, if so then it could possibly at the same time also look for any to-be-synced-books associated with that data too? Or is this too simplistic a thought?
I think at the least it would probably require much less work than totally rewriting a library system to be cloud based...(my main objection to that would be that this means I need to go online for another book, and I don't have a dataplan on my phone. With location sync I have at least the option to choose to use it or not)