Your favorite reading settings in Marvin

[Quexos]

I was wondering what were each of you guys favorite settings in Marvin.
Mine are:

- Font: Arial Rounded

- Font Color: Black

- Background Color: Beige

- Font size and line spacing: Well I got 36 lines showing per page when full page on Ipad Mini

- Left/Right Margins: small to the point that only 1 letter fits between last word and Ipad screen border (both in left and right margin)

- Top/Bottom margin: Small

- Top/Bottom info: full showing

[Faterson]

Fonts: Arvo, Volkhov, Futura, Verdana, Georgia

Font colours: Metallic Gold (daytime), Copper (dusk), Asparagus (night)

Background colour: Black (waiting for custom textured backgrounds in Marvin; on principle, I dislike all solid-colour backgrounds)

Font size and line spacing: yeah, about 36 lines per screen here as well, but on a full-sized iPad, so the font is physically larger, helping to reduce eye-strain

Paragraph spacing: typically prefer empty half-line; can't stand zero paragraph spacing

Margins: as narrow as possible on all 4 sides

Headers and Footers: showing (dim on iPad, bright on iPhone), but I'm waiting for the ability to customise their structure. Particularly missing the permanent display of percentage read; missing at least decimal numbers for percentage read; would appreciate "pages left in book" in addition to "pages left in chapter".

[MeSue]

Day, with iPad propped on my belly:


Night, with iPad propped on a pillow:


Switched from Open Sans to Arvo font for body text after everyone sung its praises in another thread like this a few months ago.

[AnemicOak]

On my iPhone right now I use Charis for a font with fairly small margins, tight line spacing and a small bit of paragraph spacing. Davy's Gray background with Ash Gray text.

[Faterson]

As to Arvo, I prefer it in light-on-dark setups. For dark-on-light, I prefer Volkhov. Because Marvin only allows us to store 3 themes for now, all of them are currently light-on-dark for me. Looking forward to when we can store an unlimited amount of themes; then I will definitely set up a few dark-on-light ones, too. All of my themes will be with textured backgrounds in future.

[fireland]

Euphemia is a comfortable font for me.

Day time: Charcoal text on Light ePaper (bright light situations)
Night time: Navajo White on Black
Other: Wine on Dark ePaper. (most day time situations)

[Quexos]

I've tried a dark background with clear or white fonts and it looks kind of good but somehow I am conservative on this issue and prefer reading with my same favorite settings day or night.

[BenG]

Font: Arvo on my iPad, Gill Sans on my iPhone

Day: Black on Light ePaper
Night: Asparagus on Black
Other: Red on Black (red is supposed to preserve your night vision)

For the font size, I try to maintain a balance between the margins and font size so that the lines will not be too long or too short.

[MartyTX]

Originally Posted by Quexos

I was wondering what were each of you guys favorite settings in Marvin.
Mine are:

- Left/Right Margins: small to the point that only 1 letter fits between last word and Ipad screen border (both in left and right margin)

- Top/Bottom margin: Small

- Top/Bottom info: full showing

I have Marvin 2.5 running on an iPad Mini with iOS 7.0.4.

I must be overlooking something. How/where do you set the top and bottom margins? No problem setting margin width on the sides, but where is the top/bottom margin setting hiding?

Thanks,
Marty

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by MartyTX

I have Marvin 2.5 running on an iPad Mini with iOS 7.0.4.

I must be overlooking something. How/where do you set the top and bottom margins? No problem setting margin width on the sides, but where is the top/bottom margin setting hiding?

Thanks,
Marty

From the Home screen, touch the gear icon (top left). Look in the General tab.

And, there are also some global Marvin settings in the iOS Settings app.

G

[MartyTX]

G,

Thanks for your help. As we say in Texas: "If it was a snake it would have bit me!"
Hidden in plain sight on the Home screen!

I picked up my iPad Mini at WalMart on Thanksgiving for $200. Too good a deal to pass up.

After a couple of days playing with iBooks, I thought I'd explore Marvin. WOW! Talk about a full-featured app.

My Nook ST is still my main eReader, but Marvin sure looks good on my Mini.

Regards,
Marty

[GRiker]

@MartyTX, if you're not already aware of it, check out the Marvin XD plugin for calibre.

G

[Quexos]

Yeah Marvin is quite amazing. I actually find my e-ink readers slow, rigid and a bit obsolete when comparing to my Ipad with Marvin. I sold my Glo cause it just can't keep up in my opinion. I still have my Aura HD though, for its battery life is unbeatable and it comes handy when I need to read for a long time.

Originally Posted by MartyTX

After a couple of days playing with iBooks, I thought I'd explore Marvin. WOW! Talk about a full-featured app.

My Nook ST is still my main eReader, but Marvin sure looks good on my Mini.

Regards,
Marty

[Richard Moody]

Quexos - I agree. I had a glo for a year ( well actually I still have it, sitting reproachfully in a corner, untouched).

The Ipad Mini plus Marvin is just so good and immersive an ereadet.