read-aware

New

• Image backgrounds for reading. The built-in Image Background plugin turns any local PNG, JPEG or WebP into a reading theme. Pick an image, see a preview, then choose a base theme for colors and typography and set the image's opacity and dimming. You can keep up to twelve named themes, and the plugin page has its own Page color picker, so you can switch between image themes and regular page colors without leaving it.
• Tap zones and volume keys turn pages. Settings → Reading → Page Turning adds tapping the sides of the page (or a one-handed forward zone) in three widths, and on Android the volume keys, with a choice of which key reads on. Both are off by default, and the Agent can change them for you.
• Import a whole folder. Add every book in a folder at once on desktop, Android and iOS from the shelf menu, the command palette or the empty shelf. On desktop you can also drop a folder onto the window. Each book remembers which folder it came from, so you can ask the Agent to group your shelf by folder.
• Your own fonts on every platform. Import TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 or TTC font files from the reading font menu on desktop, Android and iOS. Imported fonts sync to your other devices, and removing one sends affected settings back to their defaults.

Improved

• One dropdown for reading fonts. Importing and removing fonts now happens inside the font dropdown, instead of in a separate list below it.
• Plugin toolbars hide less. A plugin's "More" menu no longer appears with just one item; that action is shown as a button instead.

Fixed

• Sentence mode picks up where you left off on another device. After a sync, sentence and paragraph mode resume at the position you reached on the other device, instead of jumping back to an old chapter.
• Swipe back in iOS Settings. The edge-swipe gesture now goes back a level in Settings on iPhone and iPad.
• Agent menu entries respond across the whole row. Items in the Agent's overflow menu can be tapped anywhere on the row, not just on the label.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ahpxex/read-aware/compare/v0.6.7...v0.6.8

Fixed

• Short swipes turn the page. In page-turn mode on phones and tablets, a quick flick now turns the page even when your finger slows down before lifting, and a slower drag turns it once it covers a quarter of the page. Before, a page turned only after dragging past half the screen, and a hard flick could skip a page; now a swipe moves exactly one page.
• The app no longer zooms like a web page. A two-finger pinch or a double tap no longer magnifies the whole app on Android and iOS. PDFs and comics still zoom with a pinch, and text size stays in the reader's font settings.
• The model list stays open on Android. In Settings → AI, the model picker no longer closes the moment you open it when the on-screen keyboard appears; the field moves above the keyboard so you can search and pick.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ahpxex/read-aware/compare/v0.6.6...v0.6.7

New

• Plugins update themselves. Plugins you install or update from the marketplace now keep themselves current — checked once a day, and right away after ReadAware itself updates. An update keeps the plugin's book access and whether it is turned on, and a plugin you turned off is updated without running. Updates that ask for new permissions, settings access or network sites wait for your approval in Settings → Plugins, and plugins you installed from a folder or zip are never replaced by a marketplace listing. Plugins installed before 0.6.6 announce their next update once; update them in Settings → Plugins → Marketplace and they update automatically from then on.

Improved

• A plugin that can't run tells you why. Instead of "Activation failed. Details are in the app log", the plugin's row explains whether the plugin was built for an older ReadAware or needs a newer one — with an Update to vX button when the marketplace has a compatible release, or a shortcut to check for app updates.
• Plugin number settings stay in range. A value outside the range a plugin declares is refused on its settings page with a clear message, the same rule the assistant already followed.
• Sync waits as long as the server asks. When the sync server is busy, the next attempt is scheduled at the time it requests instead of a ten-minute backoff.
• Plugin developer docs and kit. The plugin repository's template, typings and validator now match this release, it has a single-file guide for coding agents (AGENTS.md), and the website's API reference lists every capability and method with its signature, documentation and released version.

Fixed

• Footnote citations in AI replies now jump to their note within the reply and back, instead of opening an external-link prompt.
• Links in Chinese and Japanese replies no longer swallow the punctuation and text after a bare URL, such as a closing full-width parenthesis.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ahpxex/read-aware/compare/v0.6.5...v0.6.6

New

• Zoom for PDFs and comics. Pinch on the trackpad or touch screen, hold the zoom chord on the mouse wheel, or press ⌘= / ⌘− / ⌘0 (Ctrl elsewhere; rebindable in Settings → Shortcuts). The point under your fingers or cursor stays put, and pages zoomed past the window scroll in every direction. Reading appearance lets you choose what 100% means — the page's width or the whole page.
• The percentage shows as you zoom, and while the reader controls are up a zoomed page keeps it on screen with a one-click way back to the fit.
• Each book remembers its zoom and your place on the page on this device, so a zoomed page reopens on the passage you were reading instead of its corner.
• Lock a zoomed view for page turns. In single- and two-page modes, lock the view from the zoom pill or with ⌘L: the wheel, arrow keys and swipes turn pages again, and every page opens on the same part — handy for reading one column of a paper page after page.
• Tables of contents rebuilt for books that barely have one. Sets whose contents list only their volumes, and PDFs without an outline, get a nested contents list recovered from their headings, remembered for the next open. Very long contents lists stay fast.

Improved

• Zoomed pages stay sharp: past the render budget, the visible part of a PDF page is drawn again at full resolution.
• In a paged layout, a zoomed page pans before it turns — the wheel, arrow keys and swipes first move across the page, and a new gesture at its edge turns it.
• Chapters are worked out once for both the reader and the assistant, so chapter summaries of book sets and multi-part books follow the real chapters.
• Large and slightly damaged Kindle (KF8/AZW3) books open reliably, and jumps inside a big bundle take milliseconds instead of seconds.
• Covers, code, wide tables and positioned blocks from the publisher stay inside the text column instead of rendering blank or spilling onto the next page.
• On a cold start the first page appears in your reading font, without flashing the publisher's styles first.
• Backups use the complete encrypted archive only. An old v1 .json backup is recognized and explained instead of being reported as a wrong password.

Fixed

• EPUB covers named by file path (for example Refactoring) now appear on the shelf.
• A book whose cover never reached this device — with sync off, or after a restore — gets it back from the book file here.
• Jumping with the progress bar while a chapter change was still animating no longer gets lost.
• A sync upload over your storage quota no longer removes the copy already stored.
• Local storage recovers by itself after an internal error instead of failing until restart, and a chat's messages are saved in one step.
• Exports on mobile are written only to the location you chose in the save dialog.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ahpxex/read-aware/compare/v0.6.4...v0.6.5