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I’ve been using the original Marvin for *years*. While not perfect, it was an excellent ebook app and I had no serious complaints. One of the most used apps on my iPad for nearly a decade. Over that time, I built up a library of over 4,500 books. When Marvin 3 came out, none of the features struck me as something I needed, so I left well enough alone. Until recently when I tried to transfer books from my Dropbox and discovered that feature was now broken in the original and would never be fixed since the dev team has moved on to 3. So fine, finally time to upgrade I thought. Paid the $4.99 and imported my entire Marvin classic library. Opened a book and it crashed. Restarted the app and it crashed. If I completely uninstalled it I could get it to open again, but as soon as I loaded any books into it crashed again. Somehow, in all this process it managed to “lose” my Marvin backup. I can no longer restore from either app, and even when I connect my iPad to a pc and browse the file structure, my backup is no longer there. So instead of having a great app that I’ve used for years I paid $5 for a broken app and lost ten years worth of book collecting. I guess it’s time to find a new ebook app altogether since Marvin went from being the best to being worthless.

The app is beautiful, more so than iBooks. I loved the customization options and the auto-scroll while I was reading. I was seriously considering paying for the pro/unlocked option. Unfortunately, when I tried to load more books (121, to be precise; I previously had 20 on there) into the app, it crashed. And crashed. And kept on crashing each time I attempted to open the app. I’m so disappointed by this; I really thought I’d found a perfect iOS ebook reader. Another thing to note that others have mentioned that is extremely irritating is the continual Dropbox error message. I also find it ridiculous that you have to pay more to unlock different colors; most ebook apps offer this at a free charge, not a price of 99 cents or a bundle of $4.99...

There is so much to love about this app. Extreme customization, goodreads integration, Dropbox, speech, journal, deep view. Marvin 3 is so feature rich it’s an ebook readers dream. Except... It’s hard to believe that bookmarks and annotations don’t sync automatically. It’s literally the most basic feature in EVERY other ereader. An app that has so many bells and whistles (I mean Deep View alone is AMAZING) but does not have automatic syncing is soul crushing. I will try to continue with the manual syncing in hopes that the feature will be added in the future, or until I get so absolutely frustrated I have to go back to Hyphen. From the other reviews I’ve read it looks like syncing in this app may not be happening.