Moon+ reader pro idiot guide please

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Faterson

So do I. Bad or non-existent annotations functionality totally ruins any enjoyment of reading books for me.


Come again? I thought you said you were reading for enjoyment, not for manually fixing the faulty display of e-books by e-reader software. I totally refuse to engage in any such manual fixes and activities, although (or perhaps because) I also create e-books professionally.

The sub-par rendering and low CSS fidelity is not a big deficiency for me in Moon+ Reader, but it's there -- and it's one thing that makes Moon+ inferior compared to Marvin. Overall, though, both Marvin and Moon+ are excellent pieces of software -- but both still have a long way to go before I could call either of them "5-star software". We're still in the infant era of e-books, and it shows in the (lack of) quality of available e-readers, regardless of platform.

Fixing ebooks is a hobby for me. I run all my ebooks through editing before it hits my eReader. I've been OCRing topaz books as of late and converting them to readable copies that work on any ereader. Adding section breaks though is easy and fast to do if you make ebooks for a living you should already know this then though.

[Faterson]

Absolutely. But because I'm paid for fixing bad section breaks in e-books I'm commissioned to create, it would infuriate me if I had to do that same thing in books I simply wish to enjoy.

Each of us is different -- you see highlighting and taking notes while reading books as a chore, while to me, it's the most pleasurable part of the reading experience: it's my intellectual interaction with the stuff I read. Conversely, you love manually fixing badly formatted e-books created by other folks, whereas that would drive me insane, because it would make me feel as if my working hours were longer than usual. Each of us is different.

[Piper_]

Originally Posted by Faterson

Not familiar with TTS functionality myself. Just give it a try, there's a Marvin Free version in the App Store.

Just did. It doesn't have TTS (Text to Speech).
Also only, reads epub, fwiw.

Too bad. I'd like a good ebook app for my iPhone.

[Faterson]

I'd call Marvin not just a "good" but a great ebook app, though still far from perfect.

I can see now that the TTS feature is listed in Marvin's public bug tracker / feature request collector:

https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/84

So, one can only hope.

As to "only EPUB", that is exactly how it should be. I convert each and every e-book I have into EPUB -- the only proper e-book format for this day and age, in my opinion. All the other e-book formats are either obsolete or bloated (looking at you, Amazon).

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Faterson

I'd call Marvin not just a "good" but a great ebook app, though still far from perfect.

I can see now that the TTS feature is listed in Marvin's public bug tracker / feature request collector:

https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/84

So, one can only hope.

As to "only EPUB", that is exactly how it should be. I convert each and every e-book I have into EPUB -- the only proper e-book format for this day and age, in my opinion. All the other e-book formats are either obsolete or bloated (looking at you, Amazon).

But Amazon KF8 is just an epub in a wrapper, right? You can use the Kindle unpack plugin in Calibre to get the epub.

[Faterson]

Yes, absolutely. And the wrapper causes the bloating... Whenever I create a new e-book and produce it as EPUB and MOBI (which I'm required to, although I don't use MOBI files myself), the exact same text consumes roughly 30% or so more in kilobytes in the Kindle-compatible formats compared to the same text in EPUB...

[dbareis]

Originally Posted by Faterson

Marvin is supposed to arrive on Android some time in future

I don't know where you read it but I saw a recent post on their forum where the author contradicts this...

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Faterson

Yes, absolutely. And the wrapper causes the bloating... Whenever I create a new e-book and produce it as EPUB and MOBI (which I'm required to, although I don't use MOBI files myself), the exact same text consumes roughly 30% or so more in kilobytes in the Kindle-compatible formats compared to the same text in EPUB...

It isn't bloat a Mobi book has to have a index and a few other features that epub doesn't have to be Kindle compatible. That is why it's larger in size.

[booklover6]

Is there a way to customize the Moon+ Pro Reader launch screen, to show a grid of book covers, instead of just the Recents row at the top?

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Is there a way to customize the Moon+ Pro Reader launch screen, to show a grid of book covers, instead of just the Recents row at the top?

No there isn't This is why I use Calibre's Companion to by pass that screen and go straight to the book

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Blossom

No there isn't This is why I use Calibre's Companion to by pass that screen and go straight to the book

Thanks. That's about the only thing I don't care for in Moon+ Pro.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Thanks. That's about the only thing I don't care for in Moon+ Pro.

Yeah if you use Calibre Companion as your main program then just open it up and click on the book you want to read and then it opens in Moon+ and you never have to see the first screen of Moon+

[booklover6]

Well that's an idea....just leave it sorted to recent, in case I have more than one book I am working on....I'll have to see how I like doing it that way.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Well that's an idea....just leave it sorted to recent, in case I have more than one book I am working on....I'll have to see how I like doing it that way.

Or add a custom column in Calibre name Reading then sync and it will add it to groups.

[Barty]

Ok, I'm trying to config moon to show the book's formatting more faithfully. I play around with the disable css options in miscellaneous. I try checking all the disable css and a few sub options in the menu. No discernible difference. I check all the options. No difference. I uncheck all options. No difference. Just what are these options supposed to do. Are they just placebos, like the close door button i n the elevator?