Building a Smarter Ebook Reader - Tech Forum 2014 - Kristian Guillaumier

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"Building a Smarter Ebook Reader" - Kristian Guillaumier at BookNet Canada's Tech Forum - March 6, 2014.

Education

Agenda
•  A brief history of Marvin.
•  A small selection of features.
•  Some ideas.

A wishlist
•  Flexible formatting.
•  A night mode I’m happy with.
•  Exporting annotations.
•  Dropbox + calibre.
•  Screen warmth.
•  Learn more about a book, it’s characters and
the author.
•  A vocabulary.
•  …

Nov ‘12
Version 1.0
Jun ‘13
iOSRA
Sep ‘13
Version 2.0
Sep ‘13
MXD
Sep ‘13
Mobileread
Nov ‘13
1 year
Universal
Mar ’14
Localised (de)
360+ enhancements 90+ enhancements
Mar ‘14
Unglue.it
Aug ‘13
GitHub

Marvin XD
Metadata
2-way
transfer
Flags
Word
count
Browse
DPV
Highlights
& notes
CoversVocab

Custom commands
Create new notes, append to notebook
imdb:///find?q={text}
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?&search={text}
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/{define}

Smart collections
Reading list, flagged, opened, read,
uncollected, by size, rating, series,
authors, subjects, etc…

Vocabulary
Per book Global
Export HTML and CSV
Translate and web lookup

Deep View names
Flag, annotate, search, filter, sort, web, Wikipedia, export

Multi-colour and annotated bookmarks
Bookmarks can be
annotated

Textures Ÿ Merge annotations Ÿ Edge-to-edge text
Ÿ Deep View Ÿ Custom headers and footers Ÿ
Friends email lists Ÿ Warmth and tint Ÿ Native
backups Ÿ OPDS Ÿ Multi bookmarks Ÿ Location
sync Ÿ Shake to move forward Ÿ Hidden books Ÿ
Customisable themes Ÿ Easy Dropbox integration
Ÿ Custom commands Ÿ Bulk edits Ÿ Reading list Ÿ
Alternative ToC Ÿ Reading timers Ÿ Vocabulary Ÿ
Hardware and software dimming Ÿ Smart
collections Ÿ Full text search Ÿ …

Book reports
Book note
Highlights + annotations
Annotated bookmarks
Annotated images
Index of names + annotations
Pinned articles
Description + metadata
HTML

Picture hub
•  Explore all images in a
book.
•  Search for and attach
related images from
the internet.
•  Annotate images.

Library indices
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ranked + why
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Ranked + why
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ranked + why
Alice Bob
(viewing Alice’s library folded into his)

Accessibility and ease of use
•  Bluetooth keyboard, pedal, dongle
control.

THANK YOU!
Let’s keep in touch
kris@marvinapp.com
News and tutorials: blog.marvinapp.com
Twitter: @marvinreader

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