New Member Questions?

[rmoorhou]

I just installed Marvin today on my iPad, after fighting with ebooks not getting xferred using ITunes. One serious crash I lost about half of what I had stored. I went looking for something else and found Marvin, and it's great!!

I do have a few questions, that I wasn't able to find in your files.

1. Since I'm using a 10" iPad to read on, is there a way I can get two pages to the screen?

2. is it possible to change the background color on the page that shows the covers for the Books?

3. How do you use or what does the App Themes do at the bottom left of the screen? I click on it and it just brings up colored squares? When I click a color it doesn't seem to do anything.

4. I seem to have a double load of my books somehow, one list is listed as "Uncollected" and the other is "All My Books". Is this normal?

[kguil]

Glad you're enjoying it!

1. Yes. Go to the Aa menu, choose the "Page" tab and choose two column.
2. Do you mean in the library or the home screen?
3. That's totally optional and allows you to change the colour scheme of the app. It requires an in-app purchase to do. When tapping a locked colour you should see a store page. Are you getting nothing?
4. Only one copy of the book exists. What you're doing is switching between different "book shelves". You can create your own shelves (they're called collections in Marvin).

[rmoorhou]

Originally Posted by kguil

Glad you're enjoying it!

1. Yes. Go to the Aa menu, choose the "Page" tab and choose two column.
2. Do you mean in the library or the home screen?
3. That's totally optional and allows you to change the colour scheme of the app. It requires an in-app purchase to do. When tapping a locked colour you should see a store page. Are you getting nothing?
4. Only one copy of the book exists. What you're doing is switching between different "book shelves". You can create your own shelves (they're called collections in Marvin).

Thanks for getting back to me.

Question 2, I was referring to the Library color.

I have 2 other questions:

!, Some of my books didn't come over with their covers, is there away to add the cover jpg in Marvin?

2. Is there a way I can split the books that are my wife's from mine?

Thanks again for your help!

[kguil]

Nope, you can't change the colour of the library screen.

New answers...

1. Yes. Slide the book, choose metadata and change the cover from there.
2. You can use collections to do this. See here... http://blog.marvinapp.com/post/62249442864

[rmoorhou]

I also have an older Ipad 1, with IOS 5 on it. I've been told by others that Marvin will not work on it, but have read some things on your posts that you were going to continue to support Ipad 1. IF that is true, what do I need to do to get Marvin on my old Ipad?

[kguil]

@rmoorhou - The version of Marvin that supported iOS 5 was discontinued last November. If you had downloaded it before then, you should still find it in the purchased section of the App Store app on your device. Otherwise, it's unavailable for new users.

(note that while I still support that version in terms of helping people out, it's not receiving any new updates or new features)

[rmoorhou]

I only found out about Marvin these past few days. I got both of these 2 iPads several months ago, from a relative who passed away. It wasn't until a few days ago,l that I got fed up with trying to get iTunes to work properly that I went looking for something else and found Marvin. It's so simple and stable compared to ITunes. I would put stuff in itunes and the next time I looked at it some were missing. I was hoping to find an older version of Marvin listed somewhere. I thought of putting it on the Ipad gen 1 and put books for my wife on it.
Thanks Anyway!!

Russ