Marvin Classic - eBook reader for epub app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
1424 ratings )
Education
Book
Developer:
Appstafarian
3.99 USD
Current version:
2.9.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 13 Sep 2013
App size: 47.83 Mb
IMPORTANT: If you are using iOS 9, you should get the latest and greatest Marvin 3 with 140+ features including vertical and auto scrolling, speed reading, comic book support, text-to-speech, and much more.
Marvin is an eBook reader for people who are passionate about their books. Get Marvin and find out why readers are calling it "the most brilliant eReader to come out in a long time"
ENJOY YOUR BOOKS
- A modern and clean user interface, designed for iOS 7
- Format books any way you like
- High fidelity rendering
- Opens DRM-free EPUB books
- A selection of beautiful reading fonts
- Virtually unlimited combinations of text, background colors and page textures
- 2 column layouts in both portrait and landscape (iPad)
- Cloud location sync *
- Publisher layouts and embedded fonts
- Full book search
- Control page warmth and tint in addition to brightness for comfortable night-time reading
- Customizable gestures, swiping to control brightness and warmth, page turn directions, snapping to bookmarks and chapters, etc...
- A reading timer
- Powerful highlighting and annotation tools
- Create custom commands with presets to integrate with Google Maps, Bing Images, Tweetbot, IMDb, Lingvo, Goodreads, Facebook, Wikipedia, the Merriam-Webster dictionary and more
DISCOVER AND LEARN
- Artificial intelligence that reads your books and helps you discover great things about them, their authors, characters, places, events and everything else (English only)
- Intelligently search for and pin web content such as articles, reviews and videos
- Build character summaries as separate EPUBs in seconds
- Automatically build a vocabulary as you look up words in the dictionary
- Offline and online dictionaries
ORGANIZE
- Incredibly powerful library management tools
- Custom and smart collections
- List and cover library views
- Sorting, filtering and grouping
- Group books by word count
- Reads calibre and extended metadata (subjects, series and tags)
- A metadata editor that also lets choose new covers
SHARE
- Virtually all the content you see, create and find can be exported and shared
- All exported content can be opened in web browsers and word processors for further reference
- Share status, progress, pictures, text selections and highlights to Facebook and Twitter
YOUR BOOKS, EVERYWHERE
- Find books anywhere in your Dropbox *
- Native calibre support with integration that other readers can only dream of (iOS 8.2 and earlier)
- OPDS catalogs
- Web downloads
- iTunes and email side-loading
NOTES
- Marvin opens DRM-free EPUB 2.0 books
- Dropbox support and location sync requires a Dropbox account
If youre into DRM-free books, weve worked hard to make Marvin the best way to enjoy them.
Pros and cons of Marvin Classic - eBook reader for epub app for iPhone and iPad
Marvin Classic - eBook reader for epub app good for
This app is so good it actually sold an iPad. I was looking at tablets and considering non-Apple models as well, until I realized that Marvin was iOS-only. Okay... Getting an iPad then. I was a huge fan of Stanza until Amazon killed it off; Marvin is a more-than-suitable replacement.
Really excellent interface and powerful features make this an excellent program overall. From note taking to navigation. I love the swipes for changing brightness and warmth. Lots of thought went into the design.
Suggestions:
On leaving the app it should auto send my position in the book for syncing on other devices. Seems lazy that I have to do it myself, and then the app tells me that the device Im on now is at an earlier position and asks if I want to go back.
They do need a whole-app "night mode". Reading at night the bright white menus are blinding.
They should also clean up the hinky "extra dimming" interface and simply allow the standard dimming swipe to go further.
EPub 3 support! (Including video ePub)
PDF support would be nice.
Great app, best one out there. All it needs now is voice reading like the voice dream app and it would have everything. Hope that is in the plans!
I love the way is works with Dropbox and other cloud storage systems. Excellent e-reader. Very practical. None better.
My favorite app for reading ebooks, the best Ive tried so far and I dont want to look anywhere else for better, it does amazing things I never even thought of ! Marvin is the best reading app out of all for me!
Far superior to any other, has a multitude of tools but for me the most important are two things:
1. The multicolored highlights
2. Lightness app that does not crash and not taken to move the page, no matter how many markers, notes or highlights are included.It takes a while to initially open, i believe to be rendering, but compensates by not crashing and by the fluidity of reading.
It would be nice if the app shows time remaining for finishing the chapter, as in Gerty.
Some bad moments
I use the new slide over multitasking feature a lot on my iPad for notes, language dictionaries, etc. but because the swipe turns the page, every time I try to slide over the page turns. Very annoying.
I pay for the app and cant do something as simple as change the background color without paying more for a "theme." What a greedy ripoff. This is something you offer for a free version, not a paid app.
Also, false advertising. Does not work with Calibre, which is the only reason I bought it. Deleted the app. I would not recommend this app or any other app from this company.
This doesnt work with Calibre and the latest iOS. A upgrade (and added fee) is in the works. But that upgrade is lagging. Dont get a crippled app that doesnt do what it says. Wait for the upgrade.
If you want to check page numbers, forget it. Besides youll never get support from the developers. I wasted my money.
Marvin wont sync all my books that I have copied through the iTunes data transfer and the Marvin team hasnt answered my request for technical support.
I used to quite like this reader. But it hangs in iOS 8 and I cant make it do anything at all. Dont buy this version if you have iOS 8.
