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Nope, I used iTunes which was easy.
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02-16-2013, 02:00 PM | #907 |
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You won't lose your account if you keep your Calibre Library private. I worried about this, also. However, there really isn't any need to use Calibre2OPDS... and probably not a great idea anyway, because you'll have to change it every time you add new books. Like Faterson, I just keep my actual Calibre library in Dropbox (he uses Sugarsync) and so, every time I add or remove a book, the change is immediately updated to Dropbox on the net. Its a good system.
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All you have to do is to ad calibre to the list of servers in Marvin: Tapping on the cloud icon at the bottom, you can choose "Web Browser" oder "OPDS Catalogs". Both works, OPDS gives you a more structured list. There is a "tap here" line that opens a window to enter the address for your calibre server. You find the address in calibre when you click on the "connect/share" button, there it says stop or run Content server. (I think by default this is activated in calibre). You'll have to type in all those digits and points in Marvin, but only once, then you can save it as a favourite. That's the way I do it and it works just fine. I like Dropbox for many things, but I prefer to keep my ebook library locally and just carry the few dozen books I need at a time. Last edited by Kretzer; 02-16-2013 at 07:16 PM. |
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Textured backgrounds definitely come at the bottom of my wish list. There are some very cool backgrounds on the pages you linked, but I'd want them on a computer desktop or a website, definitely not behind text I want to read. I try hard to avoid everything that distracts my weary eyes. Some of the "subtle patterns" that Kris referenced are nice though, I could imagine using some sort of paper look, but a red and black background would seriously count as torture for me Quote:
This way nobody has to sacrifice their server for loads of pictures and textures ... |
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Nothing is more crucial than for your eyes to feel natural while reading a book. If your eyes perceive an unnatural reading environment, they will feel eye-strain sooner rather than later. And that's exactly what Marvin's current solid-colour backgronds are: they feel unnaturally smooth, too perfect to my eyes, which may contribute to my eyes feeling fatigue sooner than they might, if there had been a textured background instead. Each of us is different. For many Marvin users, solid-colour backgrounds, the way Marvin offers them now, will be preferable. For other readers, though, I'm sure structured backgrounds will be preferable. I can't wait till we get to use them in Marvin -- only then will I start feeling fully comfortably, right at home in Marvin. In case you haven't noticed, holymadness, a traditional book printed on paper, has a structured background, too! Yep -- because that's what natural paper looks like: it has a background structure, too, albeit very fine. And that's the type of structured backgrounds I like most in e-readers: no gaudy ones, but ones with a delicate, hardly noticeable pattern in them. Quote:
What's even easier, Sharon, is what kyteflyer mentioned: you can just put your Calibre Library inside Dropbox. That way, whatever book you add to Calibre, will automatically become available for you for download on your iPad, iPhone, and anywhere else. Including inside Marvin, using its Dropbox button. If you have misgivings about using Dropbox for books, you can use any other, similar cloud service for the same thing. I use SugarSync. You simply instruct SugarSync to monitor your Calibre "Books" folder, and that's it! Every book from Calibre will automatically become available for you to download on your iPad, iPhone, etc., using (for example) the SugarSync app. The SugarSync app, of course, gives you the option to open a book in Marvin after you download the book in the SugarSync app. |
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I don't mind Kris giving us a colour-picker or colour-wheel in addition to the current list of colours, but whatever happens, please keep the current list of colours in its full extent. It's one of Marvin's most delightful features. The only thing we need, is to organize that long list better, because it is indeed too long to scroll through now. As suggested, folders for shades of the basic 7 (+ white, black) colours, would seem like the ideal solution. Quote:
Each of us is different, ladies and gentlemen. Let's not try to enforce our private preferences onto everyone else. Just like I wouldn't presume to enforce my preference for textured backgrounds on Kretzer and Holymadness, I expect the same courtesy from them: not try to enforce solid-colour backgrounds on me. Here is how you can instantly recognize top-quality software: it can oblige every user's preferences, without inconveniencing or confusing any user. Marvin can definitely achieve this here, by simply making textured backgrounds possible for those of us who prefer using them. Quote:
Exactly because you hate black & red, Kretzer, and I love it -- that's why I'm suggesting to Kris not to lose too much time over this, trying to oblige us all. Simply give us the option to use our own favourite structured (or simply photographic) backgrounds in Marvin, and that's that. Quote:
What I want Marvin to do: let me "integrate" (or whatever term you wish to use) 10 or 15 or 50 of my favourite screen backgrounds whose screenshots I posted earlier. The 10/15/50 textured backgrounds (or simply photographs, picked from the iPad's Photo app, its Camera Roll or any album) would be stored in Marvin locally -- no servers or anything like that is necessary. And then, Marvin would give us an easy way to cycle/fast-switch through the display of all those 10/15/50 background textures effortlessly, using the 1-finger and 2-finger tap gestures, the way it's possible today to cycle/fast-switch through the 3 (solid-)Colour Themes. |
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Writing and reading are artifices that do not exist independently of human contrivance. As they do not exist in nature, they have no natural state. Reading on a backlit screen is no more unnatural than reading on vellum, paper, or stone tablets. One assumes you do not reject Carolingian minuscule because it deviates from the origins of Roman majuscules engraved with styli, nor sans serif mechanical typefaces for their unnaturalness in comparison to handwriting, or else what would you be doing here? It is a unique lack of self-awareness that can prompt an individual to both promote black and red textured backgrounds while fulminating against the unnaturalness of a plain white one. Of course, no study has ever concluded that natural textured backgrounds reduce eye strain, though at least one has concluded that it is more difficult to read light text against a dark background. So much for what is crucial to you, which we see is either of no, or inferior, benefit. What is crucial for this app is to not descend into design by committee, the end result of which can only be mediocrity. Last edited by holymadness; 02-16-2013 at 10:18 PM. |
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Like I said: I'm not enforcing my structured backgrounds on you. If you don't like them and don't need them, just ignore them. Is that too much to ask of you? In return, I expect the same courtesy from you: please, don't enforce your solid-colour backgrounds on me. But that's exactly what you're doing, if you're contemptuously dismissing your fellow Marvin users' requests to make structured backgrounds possible in Marvin. No code bloat can occur by simply making such backgrounds possible -- so why resist the additional, user-friendly Marvin option? |
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Ummm whats a textured background?
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See the 2 screenshots I posted on the previous page, ProfCrash, in post #894.
Each of the thumbnails in those 2 screenshots shows a different textured background. Imagine reading your Marvin books with a background like that, or indeed any (photographic) background you yourself prefer. Why not? Someone might even wish to read texts overlaid on a photograph of their beloved (wife, or kids, or house pet) -- again, why not? Background textures are standard functionality in many iOS readers, for example in Stanza, which comes preloaded with several of them. It would be wise for Marvin to follow Stanza's example in this area, too, as it has usefully done in so many others. Kris has already confirmed background textures will be possible in future in Marvin, so the only question now is how to implement them optimally. And I believe the optimal way for Marvin would be to come preloaded with 12-15 nice background textures, to showcase this particular aspect of functionality, plus give users a button to integrate an unlimited amount of custom background textures, simply by picking them from the Photo app's Camera Roll or any other album there. Last edited by Faterson; 02-16-2013 at 11:47 PM. |
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