iOS 26 issues

[Datvigi]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The problem is not iOS 26. The problem is Marvin is dead. It's not going to be updated to fix the bugs it has and it won't be updated to be fully compatible with iOS/iPadOS 26.

Please just shut up. Every year or so I come back here to this forum with an issue and you’re always here being useless. Plenty of us have been using Marvin for years since you thought it was dead with very little problems. This is the first major one in a half decade.

Go chill for whatever e-book reader you like in the appropriate thread and leave the folks that are trying to figure out a path forward alone.

[Datvigi]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

I noticed some of my books worked fine on iOS 26 Marvin while others were stuck on the first two chapters. The problem epubs all came from the same source (and all seem to be created by Calibre). To see if it's possible to make them work, I ran a couple of them through Sigil.

Test 1
Sigil gave a not well formed message for the epub upon opening and fixed it automatically. Sent the fixed epub to Marvin but nope, still didn't work.

Test 2
Edited the epub some more.
Tools - Restructure Epub to Sigil Norm
I also noticed it had two css files. I deleted one which contained just the following code and removed all references to it:

@page {
  margin-bottom: 5pt;
  margin-top: 5pt;
}

Sent the fixed epub to Marvin and it's now working as expected (including both font size and pagination)

Test 3
Tested another problem epub. Sigil did the auto-fix for not well formed documents. This time I only removed the @page css file. The second epub is also working as expected in Marvin.

Tested working on the iPhone SE2 (2020) iOS 26.0.1 and iPad 9th generation iPadOS 26.1 dev beta.

So at least for my problem epubs, there's a fix available. It's just a bit of a hassle to fix them via Sigil one by one. I think I might try if I can do a batch delete of the extra css file using 7zip and see if iOS 26 Marvin will accept that.

This did it. One extra step of running ebooks through Sigil is a small price to pay. Hopefully the IOS side just issues a general fix at some point to not be so damn invasive with their text

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Datvigi

Please just shut up. Every year or so I come back here to this forum with an issue and you’re always here being useless. Plenty of us have been using Marvin for years since you thought it was dead with very little problems. This is the first major one in a half decade.

Go chill for whatever e-book reader you like in the appropriate thread and leave the folks that are trying to figure out a path forward alone.

First major problem? Nope. What about when all of the labels when you highlighted were not visible?

[Turtle91]

They are visible just fine… you just don’t like how they look. Marvin didn’t go in and change the line height of the section when adding the highlight. That is hardly a “major problem”.

Regardless, you still keep sticking your nose in a thread with no solutions, just complaints. That is not helpful at all…

[Datvigi]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

First major problem? Nope. What about when all of the labels when you highlighted were not visible?

No idea what you’re even talking about. I use this to read books. You apparently only involve yourself with Marvin to show off how far you have a stick shoved up your ass

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Datvigi

No idea what you’re even talking about. I use this to read books. You apparently only involve yourself with Marvin to show off how far you have a stick shoved up your ass

I don't recall if was iOS 16 or not, but there came a time when Marvin could not display the labels for the options when you highlighted.

[Turtle91]

Again, incorrect. It displays the labels just fine...it was iOS that changed and forced the background color of the label bar to white...so it ended up being an off-white text color with a white background. It was displayed, just more difficult to see...caused by iOS, not a failure of Marvin.

Again, again, regardless, you still keep sticking your nose in a thread with no solutions, just complaints. That is not helpful at all…