Thread: BookShelves — Native EPUB Reader for macOS and iOS (looking for feedback)
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Old Yesterday, 11:49 AM   #44
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by QuietShelfLife View Post
Fair pushback, Jon. To be specific about what 1.0.13–1.0.15 actually shipped, since "rendering vs. crashes" is a bit of a false split here:
  • 1.0.13 — fixed a crash on iOS 26.3+ where Apple Intelligence indexing the PDF reader would take down the app. Users on the current iOS couldn't open PDFs at all. Also bounds-check fixes for malformed EPUB/ZIP archives (security).
  • 1.0.14 — actually was rendering work: bundled STIX Two Math for proper MathML on iOS, cleaned up font stacks across all languages, switched CJK to serif so those books read like books.
  • 1.0.15 — added HuffCDIC MOBI support (books that wouldn't open before now do), and fixed a freeze when importing large Calibre libraries — also a "can't read books" problem, just one rung earlier in the chain.

So the honest answer is: every one of those releases unblocked someone who also couldn't read. Your reports are next in the queue — the :where() wrap for the paragraph margin is in the build I'm preparing now, alongside the line-height control. I'll post here the day it's on the App Store with the version number so you can grab it directly.
PDF and Mobi are just BLOAT for an ePub reader. While you are fixing some things, you're fixing the wrong things. The ePub rendering is still terrible. Please drop PDF and drop Mobi and fix the ePub rendering and then work on everything else (except adding useless formats).
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