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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Just because it isn’t on the store doesn’t mean you can’t use it
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It certainly means
exactly that, once you get a new device or reset it to factory settings. Stupid Apple!
This is the no. 1 reason why I ditched the iPhone many years ago, although I do continue using all 3 sizes of the iPads.
I
never upgrade anything on Apple devices – neither iOS/iPad OS, nor individual apps – unless it's
absolutely necessary.
Because when you
do upgrade, then despotic Apple will prevent you from using
some of your old apps, even though they would still be perfectly capable of functioning on the new device/new iOS.
No such danger on Android, thank goodness.
I hope I can one day use the same e-reader software on
all platforms.
For PDFs, I have now switched to Adobe Reader on all platforms, but it's far from satisfactory. Yet because using the excellent GoodReader on iOS results in data loss when using Dropbox for annotations syncing, I was left with no other choice.
For EPUBs, I still use primarily Moon+ Reader Pro on Android (and primarily Marvin, along with MapleRead, on the iPads), but the multi-platform e-reader app
BookFusion (see
here and
here) looks
very promising on
all platforms.
I hope that I'll be one day able to use BookFusion to read both EPUBs and PDFs on all platforms, once its functionality improves sufficiently. BookFusion's developer skillachie has been very supportive and responsive to user feedback, both here in this forum and elsewhere.
The thing that has excited me the most in recent months, have been the
Onyx Boox e-readers. They're
e-ink readers, but unlike the silly Kindles with their closed universe (PocketBook and Kobo aren't much better), the Onyxes run regular Android, which is just absolutely terrific. After first buying the tiny 6-inch
Poke 4 Lite and being delighted by it (its upgrade, Poke 5 Lite, was announced only a few days ago), I went ahead and purchased the 10-inch
Tab Ultra – Onyx's answer to iPad Pro. It's a magnificent device, and both Moon+ Reader & BookFusion look gorgeous on it. (Marvin would have, too, if it was available on Android!) I should have waited a bit, perhaps, because the
color version of Tab Ultra, the
Tab Ultra C, was released only a couple of weeks ago, and for only a negligibly higher price. Then again,
color on an e-ink screen still doesn't look quite as nice as black & white: it's 300 DPI for black-and-white versus only 150 DPI for "pastel" (euphemysm for
faded) colors on an e-ink screen at this point of development. I'll definitely also be purchasing the 13-inch version, the
Tab X, but prefer to wait for the
color version of it to get released – even if they are "pastel"/faded colors, and with half the resolution of black & white.
I remember that Kris, Marvin's developer, was a huge fan of e-ink devices, and mentioned several times how he regretted Marvin just wasn't available on an e-ink device.
Well, today, 10 years later or so, it
could very well happen – Kris would simply need to switch from Apple's moronic operating system to Android. If only this array of new e-ink devices from Onyx Boox could motivate Kris to restart his involvement with Marvin, this time targeting specifically
Android e-ink devices, perhaps!
