[Faterson]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I don't care about annotating

That explains your satisfaction with e-ink. As you know, annotating in e-ink is an ordeal, which is why the arrival of hardware Kindles wasn't enough for me to abandon printed books. Only iPad with Stanza on it accomplished that for me.

There's nothing wrong with never annotating books. But I at least hope that you (unlike that berserk crowd of blinded enraged Marvin fanboys) will admit that annotations are a crucial feature for many other readers whose needs happen to be different from yours.

Among other things, I get paid for proofreading books, so it's obvious I need that feature to be professionally reliable. That's why I had to switch to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs, even though it's corporate software, and therefore dumb – but at least there's no data loss, which is a big no-no for someone who's earning money by proofreading books.

Potential data loss is also something I worry about in BookFusion. BookFusion offers its own in-house syncing solution (its own cloud to store the annotations, to make them accessible on all 3 platforms: iOS + Android + web/Windows, Mac, Linux...), which is great, but not secure enough for me. What if BookFusion's cloud server goes down one day?

Therefore, one of the suggestions I'll be submitting to the BookFusion developer in this thread is to implement, say, Dropbox backups in BookFusion, in addition to BookFusion's in-house backup solution.

I love how GoodReader for iOS does that: you push a single button, and your entire folder of books currently being read gets backed up to Dropbox or Google Drive. That's something BookFusion might offer as well – then I could rest at ease that my data is secure. (GoodReader does it well on principle, but in practice, its particular backup method leads to pretty frequent data loss in Dropbox, so I had to ditch GoodReader for Adobe Acrobat.)

Originally Posted by Sirtel

disable headers/footers

Oh, it's not about disabling headers/footers for me at all!

Sure, one of the available options should be to make them go away completely if that's what the reader prefers, but that's my point: headers & footers should be completely customizable in any way the reader likes it.

Marvin is absolutely terrific in this regard, with no other e-reader even coming close. And, as mentioned, I remember how extremely hard Kris worked to make all of it possible in Marvin. It's been worth it.

You can take a closer look at the second screenshot on the left in that tweet of mine, to see how I set up my headers and footers in Marvin. I expect nothing less from BookFusion, if it's to replace Marvin for me in future.

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I could never read books on an iPad or another tablet, too heavy and uncomfortable.

I disagree. What's "heavy" about the iPad mini, for example? "Light as a feather", if you ask me. That's like saying "printed books are too heavy for me".

Everyone's mileage may vary, of course. I regularly use even my 13-inch iPad Pro and the new 14-inch Samsung Tab S8 Ultra to read e-books, and I don't even find those too heavy.