Reader 4.3.24

  • Stability improvements

Reader 4.3.23

  • Stability improvements

Reader 4.3.22 – First full release of 4.3+

  • Fixed issues unzipping (voices and documents) and some button rendering issues on older devices.

Reader 4.3.21

  • Fixed a crash importing larger text blobs

Reader 4.320

  • Fixed an issue with the reading screen not being recreated correctly from the notifications
  • Added accessibility actions.
  • Stability improvements.

Reader 4.3.17-4.3.19 – internal

Reader 4.3.16

  • Cleaned up issues with missing translation, right-to-left support, and locale switching.
  • Stability improvements.
  • Fixed issues in the playlist going to the wrong place in the new document.

Reader 4.3.15

  • New importer, now handles a number of edges we didn’t handle before.
  • Create metadata for PDFs that lack it (thanks to the new importer)
  • Fixed an issue in search in document that missed some matches

Reader 4.3.14 – internal

Reader 4.3.13

  • Fixed a crash in the Visual Settings for PDF files.
  • Fixed various small bugs.

Reader 4.3.12

  • Fixed a crash in the Visual Settings for PDF files.
  • Fixed various small bugs.
  • Fixed several errors when import documents
  • Handling finding the metadata and covers much better
  • Document Details with options to edit title, author, and ISBN, the ability use a local photo as the cover, and grab covers from google books.
  • Fixes to the internal browser.
  • Fixed crashes on some older devices.

Reader 4.3.10-4.3.11 – internal

Reader 4.3.9

  • Handling finding the metadata and covers much better
  • Fixed an issue with the current item not updating on audio books.
  • Added a cover view for audiobooks.
  • Fixed an issue with pause on audiobooks.

Reader 4.3.8 – internal

Reader 4.3.7

  • Fixed a crash when looking for Google Voices when the engine is missing.
  • Fixed some issues with Manage My Voices losing its settings during restore.
  • Fixed some issues on older devices.
  • Fixed some issues in read certain Daisy2 files.

Reader 4.3.5-4.3.6 – internal

Reader 4.3.4

  • Fixed a crash when looking for Google Voices when the engine is missing.
  • Fixed some issues with Manage My Voices losing its settings during restore.

Reader 4.3.1-4.3.3- internal

Reader 4.3.0

Major changes:

  • Significant rework of the text selection code (PDF version still needs improvement)
  • Navigation rails moved to the right side of wide views
  • Fixed issues with sticky header for voice lists
  • Rewind option added to beginning of sentence
  • TTS document and audio document speeds made independent
  • Document filter remembers previous settings
  • Folder filter reworked to allow filtering by document source
  • Cleaned up Chapter, Bookmark, and Highlights views as well as Audio document view
  • Fixed scrolling issues and controls getting out of sync
  • Adjusted bookmark and notes icons to show on current spoken line
  • Disabled irrelevant options
  • Wide mode improvements (side by side lists/details)
  • Playlist and timed play clean up
  • Bookshare clean up, fix for individual logins
  • Pocket login still broken on Chromebooks
  • Language selector now only shows available language for voices
  • New options for read position seeker behavior
  • Updates for Android 13 and 14
  • Adherence to new Splash screen requirements

Accessibility improvements:

  • Bulk operations disabled on Document List for screen reader users
  • Full screen mode disabled for screen reader users
  • Fixed issues with TalkBack seeing controls from previous screen
  • Show empty message on most lists
  • UI translated into multiple new languages
  • Improved contrast in themes

Known issues:

  • PDF view needs major work
  • Pocket is broken on Chromebook
  • Pocket, Bookshare, Instapaper error handling needs improvement, especially for expired logins.
  • The play button become unresponsive rarely, efforts to debug this are slow due to the difficulties in reproducing it.