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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It really doesn't matter that Marvin is not fully ePub 3 compatible. There aren't many ePub 3 eBooks that use features that would fail with Marvin. In fact, there are hardly any ePub 3 eBooks that would fail with most Reading software. ePub 3. ePub 3 has not caught on.
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If you read books in languages such as Hebrew or Japanese, EPUB3 support is
definitely important, as EPUB2 does not support these languages properly.
I was a long time user of Stanza back in the old days. Stanza was the
best reader on iOS then. Unfortunately Amazon tossed it after the
buyout. Eventually and reluctantly I switched to Marvin for most English
EPUB (but not PDF) reading. Occasionally I need to read Japanese books,
and Marvin was just unusable.
I don't care if Marvin is fully EPUB3 compliant or not. However, lack of
rudimentary support of EPUB3 features, including vertical layout and
right-to-left page progression is inexcusable. EPUB3 came out in 2011
and it's now 2016! Even iBooks (which I don't really like) offered such
EPUB3 features long time ago.
IMHO, without rudimentary support of EPUB3, Marvin is not an advanced
EPUB reader app, let alone the best one nowadays.