Version 5.3 (refinement)

[petrjahoda]

■ New features
- Calibre-Web NextGen is a new book source in Add Books › Add Source. Browse and download your books, and your page and read status sync both ways. Pair with a Code signs in without typing your password.
- Go to Page adds Live Preview, which turns the book as you drag the ruler. Close without Go and you are back on your page.
- The Go to Page ruler marks your bookmarks and highlights, and the Now tag scrolls back to your page. Tap the page numbers at the bottom to open Go to Page.
- Tap to Turn Page can Fade or Sweep into the next page. Choose it under Animation, for EPUB books, comics and PDFs.
- Customize Toolbar offers Go to Page, Scroll, Invert Images, Light or Dark Theme and Prevent Sleep. Hold the reader toolbar to switch them on.
- Highlights that another app, such as Preview or Acrobat, saved in a PDF show up as your own. The file is never changed.
- Statistics can import your KOReader reading time from BookOrbit and Grimmory. Switch on Import Reading Time on the server's page.

■ Improvements
- Every Library sort has section titles and the side index again.
- On iPad, List and Compact can show two columns again. Find Two Columns in Edit Library.
- Edit on Home, Library, Statistics and Roadmap can hide the summary at the top of the tab.
- Calibre Mapping has an Abandoned field, so the Abandoned status syncs with a Calibre Yes/No column.
- Calibre virtual libraries import as collections more reliably, and Import as Collection files a shelf you already synced.
- KOReader Sync now signs in to Calibre-Web Automated and Calibre-Web NextGen.
- An OPDS catalog can deliver an audiobook too, when it is a single file.
- In Read Aloud, the voice you pick shows Prepare for Background Listening right under it.
- The side rails keep their symbols clear of the page text.

■ Fixes
- A Calibre-Web catalog lists your whole library, not one book per letter.
- On iOS 18, the Library title menu and the Done button in Select are back.
- On iOS 26, letting go of a slider no longer leaves its sheet faded and the app ignoring taps.
- In a PDF, Note and Share in a highlight's menu open again.
- The Library's side index no longer covers Edit at the top of the page.

■ Localization
- All new text is natively translated across all 20 supported languages.

[mikepmiller]

Thanks so much for the 5.3 update! It fixed a few minor issues that cropped up in 5.2, and the toolbar customization is awesome! I wouldn't have thought to include an invert images toggle, but I will use it a lot. As always, I love the quick iterations and improvement.

One potential suggestion: what would you think about adding a flag to enable or disable the section groupings in the library? (To be clear, I mean the indicated parts of the attached screenshot.) It's not a huge deal for me, but I actually preferred the behavior in 5.2, where the library was sorted by last read date, but there weren't any specific groupings.

As I said, that's not a huge deal for me, so if you've gotten a lot of feedback to the contrary, no need to change it.

Thanks again!

[petrjahoda]

Hi Mike, thank you for the nice feedback and about that section grouping... how should it work? Like... how should it look before/after?

[mikepmiller]

Since I'm in grid mode, I was imagining it'd just look like one single grid, so something like the (very crude ;-)) attached mockup. If you were in list mode or compact mode, it'd just be a single list (exactly as items in the same section are currently grouped).

[petrjahoda]

AHA, now I get it, you just want a switch, that will switch off/on that grouping by 'anything'. Now I understand that 'disabling the sections'.
Yes that can be done. Going to the to do list.

[mikepmiller]

Yes, exactly! Sorry I wasn't clearer to start, and thanks so much for working on it!