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Old 01-24-2020, 06:05 PM   #3
pwalker8
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
Dropbox *does* work on Marvin 3 and Marvin sxs (white or black icon background with multicolored M).

Dropbox *does not* work on Marvin Classic (red icon background with white M).

Marvin 3/sxs are no longer being developed either but thus far, everything still works (Dropbox, OPDS, etc). Alas, support for other cloud services and Files app leaves a lot to be desired. To be expected as last update for it was still on iOS 10, iirc.

If you have your ebooks tagged properly in Calibre and the EPUBs are embedded with updated metadata (or sent to Marvin via Calibre server which automatically embeds metadata), you don't even have to create collections manually. Marvin supports filtering by embedded subject/tag metadata and Calibre-format series information.

I believe there are other readers that support EPUB metadata as well such as MapleRead, KyBook, etc. I just haven't found one that I like as much as Marvin.
I pretty much agree with all of this.

Prior to this fall, I would have pointed you to Calibre Companion, but very buggy developer's version of the code was mistakenly released and Apple won't allow the developer to revert to the previous version. Right now, the developer seems to be having a lot of problems getting everything fixed and in usable format. Maybe he will, maybe he won't.

I do use CC on my iPad. I simply have to delete CC, reinstall it and re-download all my books every so often. I use the library ability of Marvin on my iPad mini.
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