Marvin lives!

[ShellShock]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Like I'm going to accept the word of someone who confuses a storage area in a car with a shoe? (.i.e boot) I much prefer confusing it with an elephant's nose (i.e. trunk) Either idiom is, of course, correct. Idioms rarely make linguistic sense.

You are not wrong there! Or do I mean, you are wrong there? I don't know whether to celebrate the richness of the English language, or hang my head in despair.

[ShellShock]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Unfortunately, some people are never happy and continually push for their individual desired features. While I don't have a problem with that philosophically, I have a problem when people put down another's work when their request is denied. That kind of "negative encouragement" rarely works, and IMO falls directly in the category of bullying and verbal abuse. Once or twice may not be a big deal, just rude, but when you hear it over and over without stop - even in the face of direct denial from the developer - it falls into that category. [not intended as calling out any individual or implying MR policies have been violated - just a general comment]

As a general comment, I agree.

[Faterson]

Sorry about that, Phil.

Turtle, your idea of "rude" is rather quaint. If you'd like to see what's really rude, check out Marvin's Facebook page. Some pretty nasty comments there. Oh, and you may inhabit a different planet from the rest of us, but the general perception has very much been that Marvin was abandonware. Again, check out Marvin's Facebook page and visitor posts there for evidence.

Now as a general comment not calling out any individual, I don't tend to confuse "political correctness" with "politeness", nor "being a beta-tester" with "sucking up to the developer at all times". "Being polite" and "being a sycophant" are two different things to me. Courtesy is a very nice thing, but perhaps those who find it synonymous with political correctness and with never directly saying anything should be willing to accept that other people and other nations may have different concepts of what constitutes politeness.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by ShellShock

You are not wrong there! Or do I mean, you are wrong there? I don't know whether to celebrate the richness of the English language, or hang my head in despair.

Hey, what do you expect from a language whose origins are a Norman man at arms trying to pick up a Saxon barmaid.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by Faterson

Sorry about that, Phil.

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Not a problem.

[dingsken]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Oh, I think that Marvin is a pretty good product as is. You can't have everything that every different user wants, otherwise it would be too bloated.

My big wishlist items are

1) get back to syncing meta data with Calibre.
2) Allow manual arrangement (i.e. manual sorting) of various collections.

I second that.
And my number 3 would be: fix the issue with cover sizes on the ipad mini.

[ShellShock]

Originally Posted by dingsken

I second that.
And my number 3 would be: fix the issue with cover sizes on the ipad mini.

I would like that too.

[FredipusRex]

Marvin 3 is about to go beta. The list of new features can be found here.

[vs40]

Nice! Any chance to get access for beta via Apple TestFlight?

UPD
Yeah! Beta signup on next week!
https://twitter.com/Appstafarian/sta...64547996348416

[pwalker8]

Cool, I'm looking forward to it. No mention of syncing with Calibre but I guess that was from 3rd party plugin.

[Quelch]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Hey, what do you expect from a language whose origins are a Norman man at arms trying to pick up a Saxon barmaid.

Glad he was successful else I wouldn't be here !

Thanks for all the updates about Marvin everyone and thanks to the genius that is rebuilding it