I'm back after a few months of returning to iBooks.
While great for syncing annotations, and perhaps I'll divide my time between it and others, at least for that, I continue to have hopes for apps by the other guys. It's hard when it seems that many are made by one person or a few, here's hoping for the best.
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Originally Posted by mattcurtis
I'm having to divide my time up between the current version of Hyphen and the next major version (which is almost a completely different app) so a few of the coming updates are moving slower than I'd like. There's a few coming updates that aim to improve shelf navigation, syncing, and more |
Sounds great. I can understand that'll take a while. Forgotten if it's been mentioned, vertical scrolling? It's one interesting way, among many, to compensate for navigating on a device, compared to a book. Kindle had other interesting ideas. As far as vertical scrolling, I feel it's quite needed, and particularly, let's hope an app comes for macOS, it is in some ways natural, like viewing a PDF, and my hope is that scrolling and searching, on macOS and iOS becomes as fast and easy as with PDFs. Vertical scrolling like iBooks seems difficult. UICollectionView? ClearView for macOS is an interesting reader, with some unique features, though one app on iOS and macOS, consider or meditate upon that, please!
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Originally Posted by mattcurtis
This is something I've been considering, actually. Is this the kind of setting you're prefer per-book, globally, or both?
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Me too really need a syncing of position, annotations, bookmarks, etc. I'm ok with globally, and a back button, long tapped to show history if needed (that'd be interesting), should avoid any issues with losing ones place. iBooks solves syncing by adding it's own UUID in a .plist; Marvin goes by file checksum, far from ideal but understandable, since books can change let's say if one wants to add fonts, change CSS, is working on one's own book, gets an updated edition with corrections and wants to keep data, etc. ePubs don't necessarily have a UUID (in the .OPF or .NCX), but sometimes yes, and maybe that, the adept UUID, ISBN, etc. or something could serve as UUID, or there could be a fallback of what to use in other cases, or some UI, out of the way for those that don't need it or use it, to rematch ePubs as needed.