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Originally Posted by JBaby
I would like to know how syncing works though. I thought it was supposed to be automatic.
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Still nothing in that regard in Marvin 3. It's a bit easier to sync manually now (using AirDrop, for example, instead of emailing annotations back and forth between devices), but there's still no automatic syncing of highlights, annotations and bookmarks for now. This has been, from my and many other users' perspective, Marvin's no. 1 missing feature for almost 5 years now – ever since Marvin was born. We've just got to be patient.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
In the specific case of a listing of available authors, you probably don't want to show multiple versions of the same author
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I absolutely
do want it. I'm convinced that this is the only way out of this mess. If you see multiple versions of the same author in the comprehensive authors list, this signals to you that some of the "author sort" meta-tags need to be fixed. So, you just fix them, and the issue is resolved.
That's how Marvin 2 does it. Right now, Marvin 2 shows me 7 books by "Agatha Christie" and 1 book by "Agatha Christie", both of them sorted under "C". This is a clear indication that there's something wrong with the meta-tags of that single Agatha Christie book. So, all I need to do is to adjust the meta-tags for that book, and then I will finally arrive at 8 books by a single author, "Agatha Christie".
I'm convinced that Marvin 3 should treat authors sorting in the same way. The status quo, I believe, is untenable and unprofessional. When you tell your software to sort authors according to their last names, but Marvin 3 ignores that preference and sorts them in the crude way anyway (Hemingway under "E"), it's just unacceptable.
