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Afterword: Ebook Readerv1.8

Released November 6, 2026Major

iOS

What changed

  • UXIntroduced Daily Edition magazine-style Home tab
  • New featureUnified search across library and catalogs
  • SocialAdded Read Together support via SharePlay
  • New featureAdded bilingual reading mode with paragraph translations
  • New featureAdded OCR for scanned PDFs with iCloud syncing
  • PlatformEnabled iCloud syncing for text settings, PDF drawings, and audio alignments
  • UXAdded Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and OpenDyslexic fonts
  • UXNew visual themes and UI polish
  • PerformanceGeneral performance optimizations for speed and smoothness
  • PerformanceFixed crashes, search duplicates, and iCloud sync issues

Original release notes

- Daily Edition: a new magazine-style Home tab
- Search across your whole library and your catalogs in one place
- Read Together: read the same book with friends over SharePlay
- Bilingual reading: a translation under each paragraph
- Recognize Text: scanned PDFs become searchable, and the recognized copy syncs across your devices
- Text settings for a single book, PDF drawings and audiobook alignments now sync through iCloud
- Two new reading fonts: Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and OpenDyslexic
- New themes and a round of visual polish
- Faster and smoother overall
- Fixes: duplicate search results, reading position syncing from iCloud, a crash loop when a book failed to open, wrong page during page curl, bookmark badge placement

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