Version 5.8 (another batch based on roadmap and feedback)

[petrjahoda]

■ New features
- From Your Authors: follow authors and see their new books on Home.
- Code Blocks: programming books show whole lines, syntax colors and full-screen listings.
- Add your own StarDict dictionaries to Look Up.
- Highlights widget: your highlights on the Home Screen.
- Mark Saved Words: your saved words tinted wherever they appear in a book.
- Book Colors: keep the colors a book gives its text, borders and boxes.
- Next in Series: the next book on the finish sheet and in Details.

■ Improvements
- Pronounce in the text selection menu.
- Translate can open your default translation app.
- Pins now show in the text, and Go to Pin marks the passage.
- Themes & Settings is grouped into Text, Page and Reading Aids.
- Library List rows can show book descriptions.
- Edit Details: order and hide the sections of a book's Details.
- A series gets a tile under each of its authors.
- Long headings hyphenate.
- Paragraph Indent keeps chapter openings flush.
- Read Again asks first, then starts the book over.
- Importing several audio files asks: One Audiobook or Separate Books.
- Calibre: read status from a library folder's metadata.opf.
- Calibre works over cellular, Personal Hotspot and Low Data Mode.
- More reliable Calibre-Web sync.
- KOReader: Send and Go There in the reader's Details.
- Export reading stats as CSV and JSON from Backup.
- New books show their covers sooner.

■ Fixes
- Large audiobooks no longer crash, and offloaded ones download before playing.
- A font's file name can no longer crash every EPUB.
- Fixed crashes in Calibre sync, the Roadmap and Listen & Read.
- Share Wrap: saving all cards to Photos no longer crashes.
- Headings show in your font from the first moment, and highlights stay on their words.
- Home no longer waits on Recently Deleted files in iCloud.
- An EPUB opens at its percentage when the saved position no longer fits.
- Blend Images keeps black line art.
- A Calibre-Web download keeps the book's position.
- PDF: Right to left now works while scrolling horizontally.

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

[culytera]

I was wondering why, despite having Fonts by Style enabled and setting the fonts, they're not reflecting accurately on the reader. Turns out it was because in the EPUB's stylesheet, body has "font-family: sans-serif", so even if I set the Body to use the chosen serif font in JustRead, the font will only change according to the assigned sans-serif font in JustRead. Ultimately, this doesn't really affect me since the EPUBs' stylesheets already use the fonts I want and I only wanted to test out the feature, but it was interesting behavior. It does make sense that elements under body will only follow the font that's set in sans-serif since that's what the embedded stylesheet assigned it, but headings don't follow this behavior.

- An EPUB opens at its percentage when the saved position no longer fits.

It works! Thanks for adding this. Initially, the Go to Page toolbar icon wasn't working until I closed that book and reopened it, but after further tests, this problem fixed itself. EDIT: After another test, this problem happened again lol

[petrjahoda]

Hello Culytera, can you contact us at support@justread.app to sort this problem out. Looks like I am missing complete details (description) of the problem and I think we will sort it out faster and better via email.

[petrjahoda]

Info: fixed, iOS18 and blend image feature bug combined. Will be in 5.9. If anyone is experiencing the same, disable blend image feature.

[peaceridge]

An observation, nothing to be fixed.

I have an ipad air 11" and just got the new ipad mini 8. Ipados 27.2, JustRead 5.8. Using Apple's system I transferred everything from the air to the mini by placing them side-by-side. Almost everything transferred fine. JustRead got all of it's settings moved across, but none of the books. My other ebook software did transfer their books.

A caveat: I don't use JustRead as you intend. I have kept all my books in Mapleread SE for years (as a catalog, not as a reader). When I get a new book, I transfer it to Mapleread from Calibre. Then I transfer it to JustRead. When I finish it I delete it from JustRead. I only had about 20 books on JustRead, so no big deal to transfer them again.

I thought you would be interested.

[petrjahoda]

Hi, JustRead does not store any books. It just points to a folder with books. If you have this folder in, for example iCloud, it will use this same iCloud folder on a new device.

That is intentional for JustRead to not store books. JustRead does not own the books, you do, in your folder of choice.

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by petrjahoda

Hi, JustRead does not store any books. It just points to a folder with books. If you have this folder in, for example iCloud, it will use this same iCloud folder on a new device.

This is one of my favorite things about JustRead. I have a dedicated folder in iCloud for the app's books, and I love how books just automagically appear and disappear from the app (both on iPhone and iPad) when I add or delete books from the folder. Maintenance is a breeze.

[petrjahoda]

Hi and T H A N K Y O U :-)
That was exactly my aim in the beginning and after a few glitches it now works as I imagined in the beginning.

Also this will come handy for upcoming Mac release (I hope in 2-3 weeks): when using the same iCloud folder, anything you do on Mac (editing metadata, multi editing for multipe books at once, changing and cropping covers, etc.) will be on the iPhone in a second. The same goes when you add a book, etc.