Sync annotations! – Marvin 3 Review

This is by far the best e-reader. It’s design is aligned with apple like devices. The features are outstanding. Highlight tagging is sublime and, as far as I know, no other e-reader has this. Unfortunately, in this day and age, and with the variety of options, functionality trumps bells and whistles...you kind of don’t have a choice. Manually synching your highlights is a nightmare. You will go to the washroom, pick up your iPhone, only to forget youve synced your work on your iPad. Even worse highlighting one one device an hour of work while forgetting to sync 2 hours of work on another device. Average consumer works across multiple projects, besides just reading books, on a day to day basis. You’re dealing with large amounts of thought processing constantly. Your note taking, journaling, tasks, document databases - amongst many others - and book reading. You are constantly switching devices st home, at work, in transit. Your brain will forget even a simple concept as a manual sync. Many will argue the “come on how hard is it to push a button?”...when you consider all the variables, trust me, it becomes extremely difficult. On another note - and as I mentioned briefly in the beginning - this is an amazing reader, and nothing even comes close to it (maybe kybook as it supports multiple formats yet, no tag highlighting) but, the note & highlight synching issue proves to difficult for my workflow. Until this issue is resolved I will be sticking to Apple’s Books. Fix highlight synching and I’m in. Support more formats and I’ll be in 100%. Otherwise, great job on a magnificent piece of software. Review update I was wrong in regards to highlight synching. The tool is not capable of highlight synching whatsoever. I believe page location is all it can sync (even that I found not to sync with certainty). Highlights ca be exported from one device to another, a feature called (Marvin to Marvin export). Let’s assume you work on your iPhone then would like to switch to iPad (vice versa applies similarly). You export to a location of your choice (Dropbox, iDrive) and when you go on your iPad, you would open the file by sending it to Marvin. You do that each time you switch devices. There you go , it’s actually more complicated than originally stated.
Review by stanblues999 on Marvin 3.