Marvin Classic - eBook reader for epub App Reviews

For the most part the app does its job. I cant take an app seriously that only supports Dropbox for cloud sync. Next.

I purchased Marvin as a replacement for Stanza since it can connect to Calibre and read from Dropbox. Neither of these features worked. The connection to Calibre is broken for anyone running iOS 8.3 or later. The Dropbox connection could only find two readable files none of which were the djvu files I wanted. A open with Marvin could fix the Dropbox issue but sadly that is not available either.

Its the only e-reader I use. I have multiple devices and often read multiple books at the same time. Marvin now allows me to keep up in any of my devices. With the added support of cloud sync to Box and Google cloud just makes life easier. The "Picker" for grabbing media from cloud storage is a bit buggy however.

Love, love, love Marvin. Its the best for those looking to take complete control of their ebooks. Best reading out there. Easily sort, categorize, add covers and back up.

People have been complaining for months that it no longer works with Calibre. The blog site AKA Help is useless and a confusing jumble of tech jargon that is anything but helpful. Worked fine until iOS and Calibre 2.18. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY UNTIL THE DEVELOPER PROVIDES A SIMPLE INSTRUCTION WITH A WORKING PLUGIN FOR CALIBRE...!!!

The only real reason I bought the app was because iBooks wastes so much space on the margins on my iPad. Its also a pain to import books without having to sync inside iTunes using another Mac. However this app crashes every time you try to import multiple books from Dropbox, and Ive had a few crashes just from reading. Not a good first impression for this app so far, and the extras which you have to pay for seem superfluous.

Simply amazing. Fast, fluid, easy to use. I’m loving this app. If you’re into eBooks, you need this app.

Marvin is far and away the best looking ePub reader available. It beats iBooks hands down. I have a great many non-iBooks ePubs that I was keeping organized in iBooks / iTunes, but recent attempts to move them to a new iPad have resulted in nothing but frustration. Since Im living in a post-iTunes world now (Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, etc.), eBooks have become the last bastion, and only reason to continue enduring increasingly sketchy iTunes syncing. It has finally become time to move my library over to Dropbox and read with Marvin. Other reviews have gone over the positives, so I wont rehash them here. Suffice it to say this is an excellent eReader app. However, I have observed these drawbacks: • Marvin crashes when importing multiple books from Dropbox, forcing the user to painstakingly tap three times for each book • Marvin crashes when sending books to the iOS device using AirPlay • The Dropbox integration doesnt show sub-folders, but instead lumps all books in every sub-folder together, making it hard to find what you want to import • You have to import every book manually on each device; there should really be Dropbox / iCloud integration to have books automatically appear on all devices when added to one • Reading position sync is unreliable, except at the beginning of a chapter • Deep Look data (a less-sophisticated version of Amazons X-Ray) doesnt seem to sync; I spent time combining duplicate characters and otherwise preening this data in one book, only to find it not even enabled on the same book on another device Overall, Id still recommend this app, especially if sync isnt an issue for you. However, for a $4 app, it seems a little rough around the edges in reliability, UI design, and especially multi-device use.

The dev doesnt seem interested in adding ePub 3.0 support when there are free alternatives that handle it just fine. Sure the UI is nice, but who really cares when 95% of your time in this app is spent actually reading a book. There was no reason for the dev to waste time on yet another ePub reader (Gerty) when he already had the superior app in Marvin, other than just to double-dip his customer base. His time would have been better spent on improving Marvin, but instead we ended up with 2 sub-par apps that rarely get updated, neither of which truly support ePub 3.0.

Thanks again for your excellent app. I have been using it for a few months now. You did a great job. Bug 1. The selected font size, line-spacing, paragraph space etc… is not consistent. I am not in publisher mode. I set all settings they way I want but each book is not the same. I should open any book and all settings font-size etc.. should be same. Here are two suggestions: 1. When setting themes, save the "Dimming on/off" with the theme. I use the white background, with no dimming during day. And I use black background with "Extra dimming" at night. Since I can cycle through the themes by one tap, I always have to to do additional taps to turn on or off the "Extra dimming" If this was saved with the them it would make things a lot easier. 2. When book is complete automatically tag it as Read (the blue icon). Now you have to find the book in the list and then tag it read. Thanks again for great app.

Have tried pretty much every reading app (since the loss of our dearly departed Stanza) and Marvin is the best theres been.

Long hold on the word does not bring up pop up menu on the first try, have to do it twice on iOS 9, please fix. Otherwise great reader.

Good reading app. But plz add multi language support for sorting titles. And plz add custom fonts or upload functions

Bought this specifically so that I could sync with calibre -- come to find out that functionality hasnt worked since iOS 8.3. $4 down the drain.

The app seems great, wants to be great, but doesnt live up to expectations. The app crashes every time I try to download more than 1 book at a time. Its also created a few "duplicate" book files, i.e.: corrupt book files I have had to find and delete. I like the app and want to love it but some design fixes need to be implemented before that happens.

While a process is documented to use OPDS that function has been disabled in favor of an ugly hack that requires you to 1. Use calibre only and 2. Own the calibre server yourself. Just lame. I thought this feature was missing from the free version so I wasted my money on the paid version only to discover that the feature (still documented) was removed without notice.

This is the best app to work with calibre. I have used it for several years on my iPad and iPhone. Works excellently with Dropbox. All the metadata that I have input into calibre is transferred along with the book into Marvin.

Cant wait for Marvin 3.0. The greatest ePub reader!

Marvin is the best all-around ebook reader for me, I rarely use Kindle or iBooks anymore. However, I miss the plug-in support for calibre and echo the many calls for updating it. Without it, Marvin is just as clunky as every other reader out there for organizing collections and importing books in bulk.

Great price for anyone using Calibre, especially to those who have tons of documents like me. Highly organized, uses metadata and tags can be used. Calibre, which is a free tool for computers, doesnt have their own app but this is exactly how I picture itd be. I also highly recommend for fanfic down loaders for the tag system (which you can add to and edit however you please). Easy to use. Highly recommended for serious readers!