Marvin Classic - eBook reader for epub Reviews

This app crashes every time I open it

Calfilmmaker

As soon as it began trying to fetch book covers it crashed. Now it crashes upon startup. There's no actionable dialog that tells me what went wrong so I have no idea to fix it.

Could be better.

Friodur

Well, after iBooks ruined my meticulously organized library of over 3k epubs in last year ios9 (and still haven't done any improvement in iOS10), I am still looking for a perfect e-reader. Marvin is better than others, but in need of some perfection definitely. First, why don't you guys add that magic effect of "real" turning with your finger page? It will make reading so much fun for sure. Also, all that editing, organizing, deleting and moving books to and between collections is way to complicated, IMHO, and requires too many actions. I couldn't find an option to move books up and down in the library in order to switch places between volumes. Would be lively to see shelves, too. Am I asking too much, lol?

Needs fix

Whatttttttttttttttttt?...

Paid for it, no longer works well. Avoid until updated. (4/15) Edit: issues are not addressed. Rendering a math text takes FORRRREEEEEVVVVVVVEEEEEERRRRRRR.

Best ePub reader out there!!!!!

Gamera!

Best ePub reader out there. Awesome features, highlighting, bookmarking, searching, dictionary, in-app browser, library features, organizing, purchasing, syncing to cloud and almost seamless switching between iPhone and iPad. So many other features I can't even list them. Can customize so that when you highlight a word or phrase, you can tap one "button" and it looks it up on google translate. Pretty amazing. Marvin 3 is OK, but adds features I don't need (opens other file types, etc.). Might buy to support developer, though. However, Marvin Classic does it all for me. Love it!

Best reader app yet.

mhk1999

Mini great features and customization. Love the scrolling on iPhone and love the feature to put more text on a page.

Crap

Marvins crap

No page curl, no PDF import, have to buy themes if you want more options. iBooks is better, if you want fifty different font colors, this is for you. That's about all it's good for.

Great app!

JenniferDRolph?

Just purchased Marvin then discovered Marvin 3. I'd love a refund so I could purchase the 3.

Almost perfect

Sojumonkey

Have to knock down to a low rating. Instead of continued support it the author just makes newer versions. Fragmentation is a plague on software and the features being implemented in new "premium" versions should have made their way to this version. Make it the best 5 dollar ebook app and people will keep buying it. Very disappointed

Not a reader

Nickname0005

I could not get this app to read anything. Natural Read is a good app if you want to listen to books while you drive.

Great App, But...

Exasperatd

This is by far my favorite app for reading epub format books. I use it every day. It is what made me realize how superior the epub format is over pdf. That said, there is room for improvement: 1. The developer has apparently written several epub reader apps, each of which must be purchased separately. It is not at all clear what the differences are, nor if they are significant. The developer should post a simple comparison of the various epub reader apps he/she has. 2. As far as I can tell, ALL of the developer's apps provide a way of extending the commands. However, NOWHERE is there a description of how to do this. Apparently the programmer thinks everyone knows how to do this, so there is no need for any information. Not so. E.g. I would like to underline words/phrases/sentences. How to do this ? Your guess is as good as mine -- or perhaps better, since I have not been able to do this. 3. The developer has provided many "cute" alternative views, color schemes, etc. MUCH more useful to me would be a wider selection of colors to use for highlighting, UNDERLINING, etc. I really do not need mauve letters on a peach background. A much more useful set of features is available in iAnnotate, which is one of the best pdf readers. E.g., you can choose from an infinite color palette for highlighing and/underlining. Unfortunately, pdf files to not provide the simple functionality of easily changing text size and reformating the page. So, you are either stuck with the limited feature set of Marvin -- which I do love, despite my critical comments here, or a fuller feature set that only works for pdf files. 4. It would be good to have a simple converter from pdf to epub and back, but that is apparaently not so easy to write.

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