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Originally Posted by JSWolf
First off, lets fix the rendering bugs and then work on the annotations.
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That is your personal preference, Jon. Mine, and I'm pretty sure most everyone else's, is the other way round. I have seen people ditch Marvin, or refusing to even try Marvin, because it doesn't sync annotations. But I have yet to meet a person ditching/rejecting Marvin because of imperfect CSS rendition.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The CSS deficiencies are not invisible.
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They definitely are invisible or inconspicuous, except to a handful of expert users. In contrast to that, if the reply to the question "Does it sync my highlights and annotations?" is "Nope", it's game over for Marvin instantly for many potential users.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
For example, with Marvin, in publisher layout
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I for one don't give a damn about "publisher layout". If anything, the freedom afforded by e-books is that I'm given the opportunity to
override publisher's layout at my will and whim. The best e-reader app is, therefore, the one that allows me to override publisher's layout entirely to my liking.
I agree with you, though, Jon, that this should be made possible using all functionality provided by CSS and the modular "switching off/on" of its components.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Both iBooks and Kindle are professional, no matter how you cut it. [...] in the real world, professional is how well an app appeals to the vast majority of users.
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You're kidding, eh? If Kindle and Apple Books are "professional", then I'm
both the Pope and an astronaut. Or are you, by any chance, a George Orwell fan, redefining the words of the dictionary to suit your argument?
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Originally Posted by rfog
A professional reader or a scholar or a reviewer, all three professionals in their area, must/need/have to annotate and export those annotations.
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Exactly, and amen to that. The sad conclusion is that, as of spring 2019, no professional e-reader app currently exists on this planet. But as I said, I'm confident that by the time 2039, or 2050, rolls around, it will be different and at least
one professional app should be at our disposal then.