Quote:
Originally Posted by pazos
For long time Marvin users: could you please let me know which features has Marvin3 that Kybook3 hasn't?
I'm only aware about the light gesture but I never bought the premium Marvin version and just barely tested the freemium one.
I'm pretty annoyed by the lack of good software to read epubs in iOS (beyond the two mentioned above). Android has far superior alternatives. I can't say the same thing about PDF reading where iOS wins IMHO.
|
Marvin's "Freemium" version
IS the premium version - the only difference is the banner at the bottom of the reading area that asks you to support the developer. You can use it for free for as long as it takes for you to be convinced... and you can see what's so awesome about it. At 4.99 it is WELL worth it to show support for Kris, however it is not required to pay to get any "advanced" features. You certainly don't need to subscribe to a recurring payment to get any features.
I took a quick look at KyBook...I couldn't get to the advanced options without paying for it...but what I saw was nice. It actually had very close preferences' menu items/GUI to Marvin - it reminds me very much how Kris made his series of apps
Things that are different/better in Marvin in addition to those listed by the others:
Marvin can be set to use the publisher's css style settings. There are options to "override" in kybook, and kybook says it defaults to the book's settings, but that didn't appear to be consistently applied.
Marvin does a bit better job in applying to book's style settings. For example, kybook didn't honor the center justification on the title pages, even when I tried all different iterations of it's "overrides".
Marvin does a better job of displaying full page images. Kybook added extra blank pages after each image. Also kybook did not honor the background color and styling of the image. Full disclosure - neither Marvin, nor kybook, properly centered the image vertically on the page when using the xMidYMid meet option of the SVG property.
Marvin did a better job with drop-cap styling of the first letter in the opening paragraph of each chapter.
Marvin has the ability to instantly display changes to the preferences - you can see what each option will do as you change without having to apply them.
Granted, I'm geared more toward the technical support/display of an ePub than some of the cataloging functions...which KyBook appears to do a very good job with. I just think that I spend much more time
reading a book than looking to
find a book to read, that the former shold have the higher priority/focus.
Cheers,