[Faterson]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

back when Marvin 2 was being actively worked on, syncing annotations/bookmarks and ADE page numbers were mentioned as necessary and they still don't exist.

Exactly. The Marvin 2 days were the last time Marvin was being truly actively developed. But that was years ago.

Please understand, everyone: I absolutely appreciate and bow down to Kris for having brought us this miracle called Marvin. When Stanza died, I was devastated, and thought I'd be stuck with crappy software like Kindle or iBooks forever. Now, Marvin, despite all its shortcomings, is far and away superior over Stanza, so it's a genuine accomplishment.

Nevertheless, Stanza had huge flaws, and Marvin has huge deficiencies/functionality holes as well. (Just look at Marvin's GitHub, neglected for a couple of years now, for the dozens of unresolved issues/requests.)

Then, last year, we got a brief spell of Marvin 3 being developed, but we never really got full-fledged Beta-testing like back in Marvin 2 and Marvin 1 days. It really seemed to me that Kris was rushing the release of Marvin 3 out of the gate, and it's his call to do this or not. Marvin 3 is a definite improvement over Marvin 2, but we have lost some Marvin 2 features in the process, and they still haven't been restored half a year later.

You can't be serious, guys, if you think that a few cosmetic fixes and GoodReads integration constitutes active development of an app for half a year. Let's be real. This 3.1 release is a "token update", just so no one can say there hasn't been any update at all. We got a similar "token update" back in 2015, when basically the only thing added to Marvin in one year was the cloud picker.

I don't blame Kris, nor do I demand anything from him. I have nothing but gratitude and respect for Kris. All of us have our real lives to take care of, and our various life priorities. If this is as far as Marvin will go, we'll need to accept that. And move on to another app later on, that will cater to those needs Marvin still isn't meeting today. Again, you can't be serious if you believe that an e-reader in 2017 that fails to sync annotations between devices can in any way be called "satisfactory" or "complete". Or, that when I read the final chapter of a book, Marvin claims that I have both 7 and 12 pages left in the book. That's a glaring bug if there ever was one.

Originally Posted by svenlind

declaring Marvin dead

Please read more carefully. I said "half-dead" and "seems to be dying" – very different from "declaring dead".

Originally Posted by pwalker8

I note that the author hasn't posted much here over the past several months.

It's night and day compared to the frenzy of development back in the heyday of Marvin 1 and Marvin 2. But, again, we need to accept if Kris has different priorities in life now. To be honest, I'm stunned that any mobile software developers can make a living with producing these apps. In the desktop environment, any silly little utility is unabashed to charge dozens of dollars, yet superb e-reader software like Marvin, Hyphen, or MapleRead is only supposed to cost a couple of bucks? Given this state of things, I'm not surprised if app developers just give up, and we'll be stuck with default, impotent corporate software of the Kindle and iBooks ilk.