Some of the features that most impressed me most about Stanza, Marvin takes and goes one better. But all joking aside, just a few minutes of use convinced me that I’d found a suitable replacement for the long-departed Stanza e-reader that used to be my go-to iOS e-book app. With a name like Marvin, I have to admit that my first thought was to wonder if the developer only made it for iOS because he was paranoid about Android. It’s not a perfect metaphor.) Appstafarian makes a another EPUB app called Gerty, which is very similar to Marvin except for a couple of interesting differences. Since I now have an iPad Mini 2, I decided to remedy that.īut did you know that Marvin also has a sister? (Or cousin, or wife, or something. However, I never had the chance to take a look at it-it came out after iOS 6 launched, so it was never compatible with my first-generation iPad. Juli Monroe reviewed it for the iPad, discussed how it works with Calibre, and looked at the iPhone version over the last few years. First of all, I’ve heard good things about the Marvin EPUB reader. For my first major iOS app review in years, I’ve been looking into a pair of e-book apps by developer Appstafarian.

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