Yes, it's absolutely easy to load books from Dropbox (or
whatever source) into BookFusion. Literally a tap away – no need (for me) to bother with Calibre anymore.
I especially love that I can load books into BookFusion using my desktop computers and any regular browser on them... I can organize them into bookshelves on my desktop computers, too. And then I instantly find all those books ready on all of my mobile devices!
This is what I dreamed Marvin and Moon+ Reader would one day give us, but they never did.
Only last week, I loaded dozens of new books into BookFusion, organizing them into 10 bookshelves, and it was a breeze on the desktop. BookFusion's organization capabilities are very nice, though far from perfect. (For example: no option to sort based on book
language; no option to assign
more than one language to bilingual/multilingual books; and among languages,
Old Greek is missing entirely, unlike Latin – what an insult to all the ancients!)
The
reading experience itself is, in my opinion, still better today in defunct Marvin and in Moon+ Reader than in BookFusion, but it's nice to see BookFusion catching up. I hope I'll be able to get back to the BookFusion threads here on MobileRead soon, to provide more detailed feedback to skillachie the developer.
However, since you guys mentioned Dropbox & BookFusion: I'd welcome an extra,
comprehensive one-tap backup option in BookFusion. Both Marvin and Moon+ Reader offer this, but BookFusion does not, at this point. Yeah, BookFusion uses its own server to synchronize both books and annotations, but what if a catastrophic event happens one day and the BookFusion server goes down or gets destroyed? There should always be an
additional backup option.
So, skillachie, if you're reading this, please consider implementing a
one-tap, comprehensive backup option in BookFusion (sending backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, or whatever service the user prefers). Moon+ Reader has a nice switch for this, too: back up
everything or only annotations and app settings – and it would be nice to have this option in BookFusion as well. On some occasions, I might prefer to back up everything including book files; on other occasions, only the annotations and/or app settings. (An additional backup alternative might be: back up only book files already stored on/downloaded to the
current device – or back up absolutely all books in the BookFusion account.)
