Version 5.7 (small nice to have features)

[petrjahoda]

Most of 5.7 changes comes from your votes.

■ New features
- Favorites: heart a book from its menu. Find them on Home, in Library filters and in Search.
- Listen & Read underlines the spoken word. Start it from the page with the headphones button.
- Audiobookshelf: two-way bookmarks, collections, playlists and listening time.
- Connect several Calibre servers and switch libraries from the books page.
- Open a book's Details from inside the reader.

■ Improvements
- iPad: footnotes open in a floating window.
- Two-Finger Swipe for Chapters.
- Look Up: new Wiktionary tab and Wikipedia search results.
- Blend Images with Page: pictures blend into your page colors.
- Max Time per Page: stepping away no longer inflates your statistics.
- Library filters can exclude again and match Every Tag.
- Details from File Name: read author, title and series from file names.
- Edit Book: type an EPUB's print page count.
- Themes save as you edit and can be reordered.
- BookOrbit syncs details, covers and collections.
- More accurate reading speed and Time Left.
- iPhone Duo: the book's cover on the outer screen.
- The Library Updated card can stay open until you tap Done.
- Paragraph Spacing goes up to 200%.

■ Fixes
- Fixed a crash with Kokoro voices on iOS 18.
- A picked font now replaces the book's own fonts.
- Popovers fit beside the fold on a half-folded iPhone Duo.
- Audiobookshelf single sign-on now uses justread://oauth.

■ Localization
- All new text is natively translated across all 21 supported languages.

[culytera]

- Library filters can exclude again and match Every Tag

Thanks for fixing and adding this!

1. I have a question about the "Keep in Step" feature in Calibre sync. How do I know if the bookmarks that were set by JustRead got saved to the book's metadata in Calibre? Sometimes when a book updates with a new chapter, I lose my reading progress. I also can't "force" JustRead to place the reader in the position according to the book metadata's Progress column.

JustRead will "accurately" show a progress line on the book's cover in the library view, but upon opening the book, the position doesn't reflect the progress percentage. In my test epub, I set progress at 90%, JustRead shows the progress at 90% after importing, but it doesn't open the book at an approximate 90% position. JustRead has prior reading position data on this epub at 14% so that's where it opened the book.

For books with no reading data whatsoever in JustRead, but I manually set progress data to in Calibre, JustRead will open them at 0%.

tl;dr: Progress data doesn't really seem to matter for keeping reading position, JustRead relies on something else.

2. As for the themes, it looks like I still need to press the X button on the right for the theme to save properly. If I go back after editing the theme, the edits don't get saved.

3. In non-scroll/Paged mode, I can sometimes swipe up which leads to a blank page.

(Link to screen recording, Calibe Mapping is off in my screenshot because "Send After Closing A Book" is off, my custom columns are already set)

[petrjahoda]

Hello Culytera

1a. Bookmarks and highlights are sent to Calibre's annotation store, not the book's metadata. Check in Calibre's web reader, or use Browse annotations in Calibre itself.
1b. Reading position synces to your Progress column as a percentage when you close a book (with Send on Book Close on in Calibre Mapping). JustRead uses that column only for the progress bar on the cover. The book opens at the place JustRead remembers, or at the beginning if there isn't one.
After an update, if the chapter files are renamed, JustRead can't find that place and starts over. The next update will open at the percentage instead, can it be?
2. This looks like iOS 18 problem, will test it on this iOS version
3. This is strange, there is no swipe up action in the reader. Also I use Justread daily, extensively (as expected), and never experienced this. But I have latest iOS, so I will also text with iOS 18.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by petrjahoda

1a. Bookmarks and highlights are sent to Calibre's annotation store, not the book's metadata. Check in Calibre's web reader, or use Browse annotations in Calibre itself.

I must have something wrong with my config then because my annotations list is empty in Calibre. I have auto bookmarks on so I expected at least 2 bookmarks that got transferred to Calibre, one for the test epub and another for a different book.

Originally Posted by petrjahoda

1b. Reading position synces to your Progress column as a percentage when you close a book (with Send on Book Close on in Calibre Mapping)

How does JustRead handle sending data in changed books on book close if the content server isn't available at the time of closing the book? I have this setting off since my Calibre server isn't always available, so I manually send data to Calibre.

Originally Posted by petrjahoda

1b. After an update, if the chapter files are renamed, JustRead can't find that place and starts over. The next update will open at the percentage instead, can it be?

Would that affect how JustRead remembers reading positions? Since the progress percentage and current page aren't totally accurate, especially in non-scroll/paged mode.

[petrjahoda]

Thank you very much for the screenshots, because they explained the first point

1a. Both bookmarks are 'Where you stopped' auto bookmarks. Those are a special kind, automatic and those are never sent to Calibre. By special I mean: these move all the time, while you read, they do not stay. Try making a bookmark manually on your own.

1b. Before sending JustRead check if the server is alive.If not, it does not send anything and waits for a next turn.

1c. No, JustRead does not remember a percentage or page number. It saves the exact place: the chapter file and the exact position inside it. The saved place doesn't depend on pages. From the next update the percentage is used only in two cases: when an update renamed the chapter file your place was in, or when you never opened the book in JustRead and Calibre's Progress is all there is.

[culytera]

Originally Posted by petrjahoda

Thank you very much for the screenshots, because they explained the first point

1a. Both bookmarks are 'Where you stopped' auto bookmarks. Those are a special kind, automatic and those are never sent to Calibre. By special I mean: these move all the time, while you read, they do not stay. Try making a bookmark manually on your own.

1b. Before sending JustRead check if the server is alive.If not, it does not send anything and waits for a next turn.

1c. No, JustRead does not remember a percentage or page number. It saves the exact place: the chapter file and the exact position inside it. The saved place doesn't depend on pages. From the next update the percentage is used only in two cases: when an update renamed the chapter file your place was in, or when you never opened the book in JustRead and Calibre's Progress is all there is.

1a. Ah, I understand now. I only use auto-bookmarks and not manual bookmarks to automatically remember where I last stopped for cases where JustRead, if in Paged mode, reopens the book at the beginning of the chapter for whatever reason. This is actually a separate issue I've been having for a while, but I've never been able to consistently replicate it so I don't have a screen recording to show. So I appreciate the auto-bookmarks for this reason.

1c. That sounds great!