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