Marvin Mysteries - two copies which behave differently
This will be a long post to cover the background, so please bear with me.
I traded in my iPad2 for a refurbished mini some months ago, and had some problem installing the old apps, including Marvin, on the mini. But Marvin still worked as I wanted it, and it was by far my favourite ereader.
Then came the iOS upgrade, and I had major problems with iBooks and worse problems with Marvin - Marvin stopped honouring page break before and page break after tags, even though they continued to work on iPad and Bluefire, and on a Sony T3, a Kobo Touch, a Nexus 7 with Mantano, and on Kindle azw3 ebooks converted from the original ePub with calibre.
I upgraded the iOS again last night, and after that tried to upgrade Marvin to the latest version. For some reason entirely mysterious to me I now have two separate versions of Marvin on the iPad mini.
The 'old version' has all the ebooks I had until yesterday, and still shows the page break problems on the old ebooks and on an ebook I had just finished for the MR Library, A Dark Night's Work by Elizabeth Gaskell.
The 'new' version did not recognise any of the ebooks in the 'old' Marvin's library. It asked me if I wanted to upload the freebies which came with Marvin, and I accepted that offer. I also uploaded A Dark Night's Work. On the 'new' Marvin the page break problem is fixed. But my in the TOC on the ebooks I design there is a list of option links. On the 'old' Marvin and iBooks and Bluefire and all my other readers the top link works as expected - it brings up the next 'page.' Using exactly the same ebook on the 'new' Marvin selecting that top link invariably makes it go to the previous page.
Also, I checked the Marvin freebies on the 'new' Marvin. I couldn't find a similar ToC to test, but did notice that on all of the ebooks I tested the covers bleed through to the next page: that is, the only about 80% of the cover is on the opening page, and the bottom 20% is shown on the next page.
Could somebody please download A Dark Night's Work by Elizabeth Gaskell from the MR library, and test it on an iPad with the latest version of Marvin? I desperately need to know whether there is a problem with my iPad or my ebook design.
What should I do about the two versions of Marvin on my iPad? I really want to have Marving working again so I can use it as my standard reader on my iPad. I'm thinking of deleting both versions and starting over; any advances on that?
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