Marvin Classic (free edition) - eBook reader for epub app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 1792 ratings )

Education Book
Developer: Appstafarian

Free

Current version: 2.9.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 28 Sep 2013
App size: 47.76 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"

** With the free version you can view one book at a 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 or 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 (free edition) - eBook reader for epub app for iPhone and iPad

Marvin Classic (free edition) - eBook reader for epub app good for

Definitely my favorite app for reading epubs. The extra dimming is insane. You got so many different options to individulize the app just as you like it. All in all a round thing. Great work! Keep on going!

The options in this app are great. You can customize the pages, colors, fontsize, brightness, fonttype and lots of more. Good job!

I prefer text readers like pdf viewers. That is: Scroll down to the next page. If you add an option to set scroll direction from Left/Right/Down, I shall buy the premium version!

For me this is the best iOS reader yet. But Id like the tap-zones to be wider, cause when I try to turn the page the menu is often opened occasionally. An option for blocking the auto-brightness would be great, too.

Some bad moments

Shows only 1 book of the 10 I downloaded in. Waste of time. Ill stick with BlueFire reader.

Simple not enough. Supports no pdf or other book formats. Just ePub. Nothing else.

When I try to restore from the backup all that happens is that the app crashes. This makes the program of very limited value.

Why? This app looks amazing but cant do vertical scrolling? Absolutely required. I hate flipping pages.

Sadly this version is way too limited. You can only see one(1) book at a time in the library. The whole point of me see ing If I like this program is to see how good the library system is and one book just doesnt cut it. I can understand a limited library (10 to 20) but one book viewing doesnt allow that. Would be nice in the author sort menu if you could preview the title of a book or 2. 1/2 the time I forget the authors name, but can remember based on a couple of book samples where a book I want is. Bugs: crashes if trying to connect to calibre and forget to turn on the calibre end the connection Shuffle books does not work (dice icon) Searching for a book does not work (is fine in the "all book" menu, but doesnt any where else that Ive tried) edit: never mind doesnt work here either Really needs quick scrolling on the author/author sort/unread/selector (when you hit the upper right icon to bring up display options). The right side would work great for that because there is a lot of empty space. It would also be nice if there could be quick selection there for quick selecting a collection or something like that

Best ebook reader Ive had since the old Stanza. I cant imagine it doesnt have anything a user could want. Worth it.

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