So Marvin’s Gone!

[skillachie]

Thanks as usual for the feedback. Will keep the below in mind as we crank out the other improvements and new features.

BTW Guys & Girls. Some readers from MobileRead have explored BookFusion and wanted to understand how to share eBooks with their friends and family. This is already in beta with our paid readers , however I am more than happy to give early access to any reader on the forum here as well without requiring a paid account.

Friends and Family will not need to have a paid account to use BookFusion and access the eBooks you choose to share.
https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/branch

Originally Posted by Faterson

Yes, it's absolutely easy to load books from Dropbox (or whatever source) into BookFusion. Literally a tap away – no need (for me) to bother with Calibre anymore.

I especially love that I can load books into BookFusion using my desktop computers and any regular browser on them... I can organize them into bookshelves on my desktop computers, too. And then I instantly find all those books ready on all of my mobile devices! This is what I dreamed Marvin and Moon+ Reader would one day give us, but they never did.

Only last week, I loaded dozens of new books into BookFusion, organizing them into 10 bookshelves, and it was a breeze on the desktop. BookFusion's organization capabilities are very nice, though far from perfect. (For example: no option to sort based on book language; no option to assign more than one language to bilingual/multilingual books; and among languages, Old Greek is missing entirely, unlike Latin – what an insult to all the ancients!)

The reading experience itself is, in my opinion, still better today in defunct Marvin and in Moon+ Reader than in BookFusion, but it's nice to see BookFusion catching up. I hope I'll be able to get back to the BookFusion threads here on MobileRead soon, to provide more detailed feedback to skillachie the developer.

However, since you guys mentioned Dropbox & BookFusion: I'd welcome an extra, comprehensive one-tap backup option in BookFusion. Both Marvin and Moon+ Reader offer this, but BookFusion does not, at this point. Yeah, BookFusion uses its own server to synchronize both books and annotations, but what if a catastrophic event happens one day and the BookFusion server goes down or gets destroyed? There should always be an additional backup option.

So, skillachie, if you're reading this, please consider implementing a one-tap, comprehensive backup option in BookFusion (sending backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, or whatever service the user prefers). Moon+ Reader has a nice switch for this, too: back up everything or only annotations and app settings – and it would be nice to have this option in BookFusion as well. On some occasions, I might prefer to back up everything including book files; on other occasions, only the annotations and/or app settings. (An additional backup alternative might be: back up only book files already stored on/downloaded to the current device – or back up absolutely all books in the BookFusion account.)

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by Clark G. Flipper

Since I am always checking alternatives I am testing the free version of bookfusion a bit. It seems that boofusion is a "sink", i.e. it is easy to add books to bookfusion, but once there, you can't get them back out again - or am I missing something?

All eBooks can be re- downloaded from the Web, iOS and Android by clicking on the book cover and clicking download or send to. When we add two-way sync to Calibre they will automatically download to Calibre as well

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why do you need to get books out of Bookfusion? You should have copies of the eBooks you've added to Bookfusion.

I'm using Bookfusion and it's working pretty well. There is one thing I'd like to have fixed. There is too much blsnk space at the top/bottom of the screen. If that space was reduced, there may be room for one more line.

This should be fully customizable with margins. Did you already max out the current settings? Send me a screenshot, can have it improved in the next release

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Does BookFusion allow annotations that one may wish to transfer back out???

We provide 100% export of all annotations and notes in your preferred format which includes Markdown, CSV, HTML and PDF. We will also be providing an API for those that want to have ultimate freedom in Q4 or early 2024.

Some of the rich highlights and annotation features supported that was not possible in Marvin - https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/...sidian_plugin/

[Wiggo]

Do you have to place your ads here, isn't there a BookFusion thread?

[alper]

This is a Marvin thread. Please update somewhere else?

[Turtle91]

To be fair, people have been asking about other apps, including BookFusion on this thread. It’s not totally wrong for skillachie to respond. I do think that a simple link to the BookFusion thread would be appropriate. If people want to investigate more they can go there.

[Wiggo]

Good. Then I can answer here.

Originally Posted by skillachie

We provide 100% export of all annotations and notes in your preferred format which includes Markdown, CSV, HTML and PDF. We will also be providing an API for those that want to have ultimate freedom in Q4 or early 2024.

Some of the rich highlights and annotation features supported that was not possible in Marvin - https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/...sidian_plugin/

But BookFusion cannot catch the correct chapter for annotations.



But Marvin and MapleRead can

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

To be fair, people have been asking about other apps, including BookFusion on this thread. It’s not totally wrong for skillachie to respond. I do think that a simple link to the BookFusion thread would be appropriate. If people want to investigate more they can go there.

Thanks for being fair unlike others. As you can tell, I have only addressed posts that ask about BookFusion or refer to BookFusion on the thread. It is only right that I do so.

Other apps are also mentioned on the thread, they even go in long debug sessions back and forth. No comment to request members to go create a different thread(this is a Marvin thread).If it bothers some readers that much to see BookFusion's response then they can add me to the ignore list and the problem is solved.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Do you have to place your ads here, isn't there a BookFusion thread?

I only reply to posts that mention BookFusion. See my response above. No different from the ones that mention and discuss other apps back and forth. What I did do, however was removed my footer from my signature. So that will no longer show.

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Good. Then I can answer here.

But BookFusion cannot catch the correct chapter for annotations.

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But Marvin and MapleRead can

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Thank you for taking the time to try the platform.

This is more than likely an edge case , that could be due to the language. We would be happy to have this resolved quickly. Could you share a copy or sample of the PDF? You can reply here, DM me here or email support@bookfusion.com

This appears to be the Web Reader

[Wiggo]

I will send you later the scrambled eBook as it is copyrighted.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

I will send you later the scrambled eBook as it is copyrighted.

Thank you. Only a few pages should be enough to have us investigate. If it is not an expensive book we can also look into purchasing to resolve this

[Wiggo]

Here you are!

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Here you are!

Thank you. Replicated the issue for this particular ePub. Will be fixed in the next release in 2-3 weeks. We just had a release previously https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=118

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Here you are!

This was fixed in the latest release. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096. Thanks again for the feedback.