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Old 11-12-2016, 05:47 AM   #4
Terisa de morgan
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I'm still confused :-)
Not so strange, usually a closed book gives more information than myself

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So does CC sync anything (notes? reading positions?) back to Calibre?
No, the sync is from calibre to CC, the only thing that goes back from CC to calibre is if you mark a book as read.

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Do CC and Marvin communicate in any way - e.g. CC provides Marvin with a set of books, or does Marvin copy the books from CC, and does the reading position sync between CC and Marvin?
Reading position is not synced. Marvin is only another app where CC can send the book for being read (it is copied in Marvin library).

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I think what I'm trying to figure out are workflows using the 3 programs.
Forget it, the only interaction between CC and marvin is when CC sends the book to marvin for reading it there. And calibre send books and metadata to CC.

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The CC docs don't mention Marvin and don't seem to say what it even does, and the Marvin docs don't talk about CC at all.
Because there is no special interaction between them. If you manage all your library with marvin and you're happy with how it does, I don't think you have a really need for CC. For me, for example. I don't like marvin library, I prefer CC, so I won't keep all my books in marvin, in the same way I don't keep all my books in gitden when I'm reading at my android devices.

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What I'm basically trying to work out is whether Marvin on an iPad is a viable alternative ereader to a KA1, given that I manage my books on my Mac with Calibre.
KA1 as Kobo Aura One? I don't think so. You cannot handle your books with marvin in the same way you do with a Kobo device. It was possible in previous iOs versions, but not from 8, I believe. For me, the way to do it is marvin, although I cannot sync annotations and ratings (that's what I miss more with CC).
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