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Originally Posted by leebase
That's interesting. For me FBReader has 6 tap zones, 3 on each side. I set 5 to go forward and 1 to go backward. All just take a tap, no swiping.
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As I mentioned, I often switch hands so having page back on just one side is inconvenient but neither would I like to dedicate 1/3 on both sides just for page back.
99% of the time, what I need is page forward so I prefer the way the controls work on Marvin: almost entire screen for page forward plus short flicks on the few occasions I need page back.
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I do miss the Radar feature from Marvin that will find all occurrences of a word (like a Character's name). It made some books easier to understand if I could go back to when a character was introduced and reread.
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Now that you mentioned, the search function on Marvin where it shows a preview of results (similar to Kindle and iBooks) is also far, far more useful to me than the search function in FBReader. Search is something I use all the time so whatever I replace Marvin with must have similar search functionality.
I don't use Android so the FBReader Network/Sync is wasted on me. That's really the only feature on FBReader that's missing from Marvin. Apart from that, it seems Marvin has feature parity and some things, Marvin even handles better (e.g. metadata, filtering, search, sort options, etc).
I've tried MapleRead, KyBook, FBReader, Hyphen, etc. and there are none that I like as much as Marvin. Iirc, Hyphen came closest to all my must-haves but that's been abandoned now, too. Hence, I'll continue to use Marvin for as long as it functions rather than switch to another app that doesn't work as well for me just because Marvin is abandonware. When Marvin actually stops working, that's when I'll switch.