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Originally Posted by odamizu
In addition to all the great customization options, one my favorite features is that Hyphen 1.2 syncs not just current location, but also bookmarks, annotations, and library.
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I don't need e-book software to sync my library (I'm fine with performing the few necessary taps per book manually), but if the upcoming Hyphen version indeed syncs also bookmarks and
especially annotations, it would be a
major breakthrough, which would likely put Hyphen immediately ahead of its competitors such as Marvin. In order for me to rate
any e-book software at least 4 stars, syncing annotations is a must. Kindle et al can sync annotations, but are so lame and incompetent in other respects, that they don't really deserve more than 2 stars. Now, if Hyphen indeed can synchronize annotations reliably in the upcoming version 1.2,
in addition to all the customization options it already has, it might become the first e-reader I'd be willing to rate 4 stars.
Now, as to what I particularly find missing in Hyphen, it appears that it only supports 1 day-mode and 1 night-mode, right? If that is so, that's really too uncomfortably bare-bones to me.
Marvin now offers 5 theme settings, which is a relief compared to the 3 settings in the previous Marvin era, but still not enough to me. The king of themes is definitely Moon+ Read Pro on Android – I would urge every e-book software developer to try and emulate Moon+ in this respect. In Moon+, you can define an
unlimited amount of themes, and you can also integrate your own background colors/textures/photographs.
Also, I'm noticing Hyphen is lacking the essential "Paste highlight" button in the annotations window, as seen in MapleRead and Marvin 2. I really can't annotate efficiently without such a button. To my shock and horror, in Marvin 3, that button originally disappeared as well, but in the course of Marvin 3 beta-testing, Kris at least restored the button's functionality via a context pop-up menu item – which is far less handy than the dedicated button in MapleRead or Marvin 2, but at least it's there. I'd plead with Matt to give us such a button in Hyphen as well.