[Archived] Marvin ePub reader for iPad

[anesthezea]

Originally Posted by mariosipad

As stated on the frist website I mentioned, to instal COPS you need:

* A web server with PHP support (Nginx, Apache, Cherokee, Lighttpd, IIS).
* PHP 5.3 / 5.4 with GD image processing & SQLite3 support.

So I would need my own website?

[kguil]

@kyteflyer I'm working full-blast on the iPhone version.

@MeSue I like the idea. What gesture do you suggest?

[maxjens]

Originally Posted by anesthezea

So I would need my own website?

@anesthezea You will need your own webserver, it generates a webpage and a web feed. I basically use the webfeed for it is opdf compatible and works great with Marvin. If you want to know how many books are in a folder then i would suggest the webpage, which gives this information. Marvin doesn't support this. Both can be accessed from the Cloud icon.

[maxjens]

Originally Posted by kguil

@MeSue I like the idea. What gesture do you suggest?

What about a two finger tap, two finger slide up and down makes it hotter or colder.

[mariosipad]

Originally Posted by anesthezea

So I would need my own website?

For COPS you would need your own webserver.

A webserver like Apache can easily be installed on almost any Windows PC, Mac or Linux PC or any device, like a NAS, that usually runs on a kind of Linux.

But, if you have all your e-books in Calibre you can also use the OPDS content server of Calibre.
Just enable it in Calibre (see Attached Thumbnail) and connect to it in Marvin.

in Marvin use:

http://<IP_of_Calibre_PC>:8080/opds

To find the <IP_of_Calibre_PC> just click on Connect/share in Calibre again after you have started the content server.

As I run my own small low powered home-server I prefer to use COPS over starting up Calibre on my Desktop PC (Mac mini actually) every time I want to browse through my e-book collection. With COPS its always available.

[MeSue]

Originally Posted by kguil

@MeSue I like the idea. What gesture do you suggest?

Two finger tap in the center?

[MeSue]

Originally Posted by mariosipad

As I run my own small low powered home-server I prefer to use COPS over starting up Calibre on my Desktop PC (Mac mini actually) every time I want to browse through my e-book collection. With COPS its always available.

I run a home server with Windows Home Server. I run Calibre server and have it exposed to the Internet through the homeserver.com domain provided with Windows Home Server (it's password protected). What advantages does COPS provide over the standard Calibre server?

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by kguil

@kyteflyer I'm working full-blast on the iPhone version.

@MeSue I like the idea. What gesture do you suggest?

How about a continuation of the original gesture... you slide your finger down and when you get to zero, if you keep sliding it will engage the extra dimming.
A subsequent movement up to 100%...then continuing up will disengage the extra dimming. There should be a suitable pause - or length of slide - before it is engaged/disengaged...

[kguil]

Thanks Turtle91. Great idea.

[maxjens]

Originally Posted by MeSue

I run a home server with Windows Home Server. I run Calibre server and have it exposed to the Internet through the homeserver.com domain provided with Windows Home Server (it's password protected). What advantages does COPS provide over the standard Calibre server?

@MeSue for me the ability to have one feed for multiple libraries, second the ability to have the last metadata added to the epub, thirth i can run it seperate from calibre on a NAS, server or ...

I run cops on three different environments, one at home on a server, the second on a NAS and one on a tonidoplug - is a little device with its own wifi router and storage - for when i am on holiday. All run exactly the same install of cops, and have just one file differ per environment. Calibre is great for content management, Cops is great for distribution and Marvin is the best for reading and connect good to opds.

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by maxjens

Calibre is great for content management, Cops is great for distribution and Marvin is the best for reading and connect good to opds.

Sold! I'll set it up on my Mac Mini this week.

[evanbernstein]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

How about a continuation of the original gesture... you slide your finger down and when you get to zero, if you keep sliding it will engage the extra dimming.
A subsequent movement up to 100%...then continuing up will disengage the extra dimming. There should be a suitable pause - or length of slide - before it is engaged/disengaged...

This is exactly what I'd like to see too (and have been meaning to write and suggest for awhile). Thanks!

[kguil]

I've tried that, and in most cases it works fine. The only instance where it doesn't work for me is that sometimes I like to enable extra dimming but want to dial in just a bit of hardware brightness with a swipe. This can't be done using the gesture. I'll experiment some more.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by kguil

I've tried that, and in most cases it works fine. The only instance where it doesn't work for me is that sometimes I like to enable extra dimming but want to dial in just a bit of hardware brightness with a swipe. This can't be done using the gesture. I'll experiment some more.

You should still have the full range of hardware brightness available if you set the "disengage" gesture to *above 100%*.

eg.
Initially extra dimming is disengaged - you have the full range (0-100%) of hardware dimming control - as it is now.

You slide down - past 0% - to engage extra dimming.

|          100%
|
|
|          extra dimming disengaged from 100-0%
|          
|
|         0%
|
|          extra dimming engaged
v

Once extra dimming is engaged sliding finger up gives hardware dimming variation from 0-100% (extra dimming remains engaged):

^
|         extra dimming disengaged
|
|
|         100%
|
|         
|         extra dimming engaged from 0-100%
|
|
|         0%

It is only if you slide up - past 100% - that extra dimming is disengaged.

[kguil]

Interesting... Didn't think about it that way. I'll try it out.