Thread: Marvin 3 Not Showing Custom Columns in User Collections
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Old 06-25-2019, 12:55 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by noirverse View Post
That's a shame! I was hoping for an easy way to search for my custom metadata within Marvin as I have a lot of books, but it looks like I'll need to download in batches and sort my books into the collections on Marvin like I've been doing before. From what you've said, it doesn't sound like there's any iOS based app that would be able to read the metadata. Thank you for the help!
Calibre Companion does but it has no built-in reader. You have to export books from CC to another reader.

Problem when paired with Marvin is (especially for fanfics that are frequently updated) Marvin doesn't have an easy way to overwrite existing books so you pretty much have to read then delete. The only delivery method in Marvin that allows overwrite is Dropbox.

What I've done to accommodate is to dump custom columns into hierarchical tags (e.g. Fandom.Marvel, Fandom.Buffy, Buffy.Ship.Buffy/Spike) via metadata plugboards and Save to Disk to my Dropbox.
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