Comments on: Appstafarian releases Marvin 3, a worthy successor to both Marvin and Gerty https://teleread.org/2016/06/21/appstafarian-releases-marvin-3-a-worthy-successor-to-both-marvin-and-gerty-teleread-news-e-books-publishing-tech-and-beyond/ Blog on ebooks, publishing, libraries, tech, and related topics Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:30:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Liza https://teleread.org/2016/06/21/appstafarian-releases-marvin-3-a-worthy-successor-to-both-marvin-and-gerty-teleread-news-e-books-publishing-tech-and-beyond/#comment-801 Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:30:54 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=136133#comment-801 Marvin is the BEST ereader and I’m always excited to see other people talking about it because for a few years it seemed like no one knew about it and I never saw it recommended. I bought a Fire tablet in January and was (still am) surprised by how weak the Android offerings are. I keep hopping around bc I’m not particularly happy with any of them. It was a pretty tough adjustment period!

Marvin is intuitive, respects CSS (found Teleread actually when looking for a solution to the Moon+ section break issue), and super quick and handy to make adjustments to. I adore it’s two-finger smart gestures and the ability to send an html file with any highlights/notes. For me, I don’t need what Gerty does and I was worried that Marvin had been put aside but I was really happy to see a long-awaited update to the previous Marvin as well as the new Marvin 3. I wish I wish that it was available on Android so I could be happy all the time. 🙂

And, in response to commenter Christian L- I also understood that that’s the purpose of SxS, to view two epubs. I think an example was having a textbook open with a reference manual in SxS for instance.

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]]> By: Christian Zierleyn https://teleread.org/2016/06/21/appstafarian-releases-marvin-3-a-worthy-successor-to-both-marvin-and-gerty-teleread-news-e-books-publishing-tech-and-beyond/#comment-489 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:57:30 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=136133#comment-489 “Given that SxS supports all the same features as basic Marvin, plus side-by-side libraries, at the same price, it seems like a no-brainer to buy that one rather than just the basic one,”

I haven’t used split view, but isn’t it so that you can have two different apps open at the same time with split view? That would mean you need Marvin 3 & SxS version to use this? Only buying the SxS version would allow you to use another ebook reader app with split view, or perhaps the old Marvin 2 app, but then you could also use the Marvin 2 and 3 apps in split view. Or am I not getting the point here? My guess is that SxS is only useful if you’re hooked on Marvin 3 and want to read two ebooks at the same time enjoying all Marvin 3 features with both ebooks. That would mean you would need to buy both.

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