10.08
2023-10-31
- Fix applied for sideloading certain books from Éole, France.
- Fixes for login issues with libraries: Getem, Turkey and Éole, France.
- Increased search timeout value to 30 seconds for CELA Library.
- Added two more colour settings for sentence and word highlight.
- Error messages from libraries are now displayed in a new pop up view, with additional library information.
10.07
2023-08-21
- Members of Bookshare, Bookshare Ireland and RNIB Bookshare with an Education Subscription can now assign a book to a student in the EasyReader App.
- It’s now even easier to access EasyReader Premium features. With an invitation code or a QR code sent out by your school, inviting you to join EasyReader Premium for Education.
10.06
2023-07-26
• NEW: Bookshare libraries. Titles that have been assigned to a member of Bookshare, RNIB Bookshare or Bookshare Ireland are now listed in EasyReader App.
• NEW: Getem library. The Turkish library Getem is now available in EasyReader App.
• NEW: Translations. EasyReader App is now translated into Hebrew.
• FIX: Book navigation. If the user is attempting to navigate to a page that does not exist, EasyReader provides options for the user to move to a different page instead.
• FIX: Éole library. A new system is included for signing in and downloading titles from the French library Éole.
• FIX: Sleep timer. The sleep timer now stops the book playback correctly if the device goes into a low power mode.
• PLUS: Additional fixes and improvements.
10.05
2023-06-14
Premium: Open and read files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
Premium: Improvements for reading text-based PDFs
DAISY text and audio: new option to switch between using the recorded audio and TTS audio
My Books: New graphics to indicate whether the book is text, audio or text and audio
EPUB: Improvements for Media Overlay support
Translations: Updated prompts for Swedish and Turkish
Plus: Various fixes and improvements
10.04
2023-03-03
• NEW: EasyReader Premium. EasyReader Premium subscribers can now open and read text-based PDFs in the Reader. Once open, PDFs can be read in their original layout or in a text-only view for a more accessible experience.
• NEW: DAISY 2.02 text and audio books: Improvements have been made to the way annotations, footnotes are block quotes are displayed in the Reader.
• NEW: RNIB Reading Services. The audio speed can now be adjusted in the Reader for all audio books downloaded from RNIB Reading Services.
• NEW: Bookshare Ireland. A new login system has been made available for logging in to Bookshare Ireland.
• FIX: RNIB Reading services. Fix to prevent the audio from distorting after adjusting the voice speed on a small selection of audio books from RNIB Reading Services.
10.03
2022-12-09
- NEW Full range of reading voices available free with EasyReader Premium
- NEW Listen to voice samples before selecting the reading voice you like
- NEW Unlimited selection of reading voices with EasyReader Premium
- NEW MTM Legimus library subscribers get 4 reading voices free
- Various fixes and improvements to make your reading experience better.
10.02
2022-11-04
NEW: Sign in to EasyReader App with a Bookshare Account
NEW: Sign in to EasyReader App with a Microsoft Account
NEW: Support devices which have Dark mode enabled
NEW: Greater choice of text, highlight and background colours to choose from in the Text Settings
NEW: Option to ‘Give Feedback’ in the Help and About screen
PLUS: Additional fixes and improvements
10.01
2022-09-22
NEW: EasyReader Premium. Customers who are subscribed to EasyReader Premium can now sign in to Google Classroom and Microsoft Education in EasyReader App for Windows. Once signed in, subscribers can view a list of supported files and open them in the Reader.
FIX: Bookshare. Teachers can now download titles from the Bookshare library on behalf of students.
FIX: Legimus. Cover images for titles from the Legimus library are now displayed as expected.
FIX: PassendLezen. Text-only newspapers and magazines from Passendlezen are now downloaded as expected.
FIX: Reader. After re-opening EasyReader, the Reader now resumes text-based books from the last word read (not from the start of the paragraph).
FIX: Translations. Updates have been made to the German translation of the app.
FIX: VoiceOver. The speed slider for audiobooks can now be adjusted whilst using VoiceOver.
PLUS: A host of additional fixes and improvements.
3.08
2022-08-24
- Bookshare: Support for Human Narration Audio collection
- New Dolphin Account web login
- Added link to "My Dolphin Account" preferences web page
- Image highlight support in some DAISY books
- Updated colour themes
- Various fixes and improvements
3.07
2022-06-01
NEW: Two new fonts in Text Settings (Arial and Times New Roman)
NEW: New libraries: Bind Low Vision, Unitas
NEW: Added skippability options
NEW: EPUB3 Media Overlay improvements
FIX: Translation update (langs 0007, 0031, 0033, 0034, 0039, 0048 & 0049)
FIX: Side loaded books on a device no longer appear in the ‘My Books’ list on other devices
FIX: Other general Fixes and improvements...
3.06
2022-03-25
- NEW: Blind Low Vision (NZ). Newspapers and EPUB files from Blind Low Vision are now available to download and read.
- NEW: The Suriname library NSBS is now available.
- FIX: RNIB Newsagent (UK). Following changes made by RNIB, a fix has been applied to ensure newspapers can be downloaded and read as expected.
- FIX: Calibre Audio (UK). Fix applied to ensure books can be returned as expected.
- FIX: Page numbers and footnotes in DAISY books have now been made more clearly identifiable in the Reader.
- PLUS: Additional fixes and improvements.
3.04
2021-12-20
-Potential fix to ensure the reading position is always remembered in audiobooks
-Bookshare: can now download books from the “My History” category in Bookshare
-Bookshare Ireland: PDFs from Bookshare Ireland can now be opened in the reader
-CELA Library: When the device settings are set to French, messages and sub-categories within the CELA Library are now also displayed in French
-Various fixes and improvements
3.03
2021-10-18
Fixed the reading position issue where the position did not appear to save for Audio books
3.02
2021-10-08
Fixed: Books from RNIB Reading Services can now be read whether or not they are invalid.
3.01
2021-10-05
- DOCX files can now be sideloaded into EasyReader from other apps on the device.
- Users can now add a title to any texts opened from the clipboard in EasyReader. Clipboard texts can now also be sortedby date.
- A new text setting has been added to set the highlight to the centre of the screen.
- CELA, Canada: A new category system has been added to search and browse the CELA library.
- Bookshare, US: Members of Bookshare can now view their ‘Assigned Titles’ in EasyReader. Users can now also view cover images when browsing the available titles in Bookshare.
- EasyReader now requires iOS 12.1 and later.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
2.15
2021-05-07
- Introducing three new features for people with dyslexia and these are limited to text-only documents only:
- "Lines Visible" allows you to display 1, 3 or 5 lines of text on screen with a black overlay
- "Show Image Descriptions" allows you to show or hide any existing image description in the book (if they exist)
- "Finger Reading" allows you to double tap on a word to speak out the word
- Voice Over fixes made for announcing the side menu buttons correctly
- Added support for text-only newspapers from Passend Lezen
2.13
2020-12-14
- New library: Calibre Audio (UK)
- Added support for Dynamic Fonts
- Norwegian translation update
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.12
2020-10-28
- Passend Lezen, NL: The downloaded EPUBs are now DRM protected on the device
- Blind Low Vision, NZ: We have added book categories and support for magazines
2.11
2020-09-14
- Translation updates for Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Finnish.
- Support for EPUB from Passend Lezen (NL) and NLB (NO) has been added.
- Bug fixes and improvements for some books from RNIB, Bookshare, NLB, SBS and Libro Parlato.
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.9
2020-04-30
Several fixes and improvements have been made to the remote command center for handling of media player events. Bluetooth usage have been improved and the next/prev commands now navigates according to your navigation mode setting.
2.8
2020-04-01
- New library: Blind Low Vision, NZ
- Login improvements for RNIB Reading Services
- Fix: App start issues
- Fix: Memory leak in device TTS playback caused the app to crash
- VoiceOver fixes and improvements
- Other various fixes and improvement
2.7
2020-02-25
- New book library: RNIB Reading Services (UK)
- New newspaper library: UICI (Italy)
- Improvements made for CELA Library's text-only content
- Improved support for Media Overlays in EPUB3
- New font Luciole available in Text Settings
- Sideloading fix from the Files app and Safari downloads (iOS 13)
- Various VoiceOver improvements including new navigation methods through the VoiceOver rotor
- Various additional fixes and improvements
2.6
2019-11-14
- We have added a new library named Bookshare Ireland, previously known as the NCBI Library.
- New languages: Spanish and Finnish
- We have added support for DAISY 3 text/audio books from the CELA library in Canada.
- EasyReader now includes support for SVG images for DAISY and EPUB books.
- We have increased the text zoom level from 600% to 1000%.
- Your smartphone or tablet will now auto-lock once the sleep timer reaches the end.
2.5
2019-07-15
- CELA Library: Now support for text-only books
- Save/restore reading position improvements
- Updated the French translation
- Various additional fixes and improvements are rolled in as usual
2.4
2019-02-25
* Exclusive for RNIB Bookshare – new reading support for PDF titles downloaded from RNIB Bookshare. Read in the PDF view (with original textbook layout & diagrams) or switch to the simpler text only view.
* Reading position is now stored to the Dolphin Account. If you have the same title on 2 devices & switch between them, EasyReader starts reading your book, exactly where you left off.
* Download & read from AVH Éole (France).
* Improvements for iPhone X users to make full use of their display.
2.3
2018-10-24
Sign in to EasyReader faster with your Google account.
New support for 'Reading Lists' available via Bookshare and RNIB Bookshare. Teachers can create & assign a reading list to their students via the Bookshare websites. The students can now browse and read the assigned reading list with their EasyReader app.
Titles from Bookshare and RNIB Bookshare now download as EPUB3, so images in the book are now included.
New 2 & 5 minute navigation modes – perfect for skipping forward & backwards in audio books.
Several improvements for VoiceOver users.
2.2
2018-09-10
•New library available - NCBI Overdrive
•RNIB Overdrive and NCBI Overdrive - ability to browse and search titles in ‘New releases’ and ‘Most popular’ categories
•New font 'Century Gothic' available in Text Settings
•Now able to enter edit mode on the bookmark list and the list of pronunciation corrections
•Polish translation update
•Various additional fixes and improvements are rolled in as usual
2.1
2018-07-17
2 new libraries are available through EasyReader: RNIB OverDrive (UK) and Libro Parlato (Italy).
Stability and performance improvements have been made for downloading and reading books from KDD (Czech) and Project Gutenberg libraries.
Privacy and security improvements to ensure EasyReader is compliant with the latest General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) including options to update your communication preferences at any time.
Various additional fixes and improvements are rolled in as usual.
2.0
2018-03-21
Version 2 makes BIG improvements to the reading experience in both audio & text-only books.
Start, stop and move around more easily. Larger play, pause, next & previous buttons are easier for the eyes & the fingers.
A brand new navigation bar makes skipping through your title more instant. Improved headings & search lists add to the enhancements. Adding & editing bookmarks is now more intuitive.
2 new libraries join the EasyReader family: NBH Hamburg (Germany) & CBB (Netherlands).
Various fixes & improvements are also rolled in, including improved support for Arabic text from Bookshare.
1.8
2018-02-15
• Fixed text layout issue for Bookshare books.
• Fixed multiple streaming issues.
• The logout button now has a VoiceOver label.
• Several fixes for app stability and usage improvement.
1.7
2018-01-26
• Fix for crash occurring in the Passend Lezen library menus.
1.6
2018-01-11
• Fix for crash caused by downloading a purchased TTS voice.
• Russian translation update.
• Imported books now open directly in the reader view.
1.5
2017-12-20
• Bookshare & RNIB Bookshare organisation accounts are now available for teacher use.
• Importing zipped DAISY, EPUB and TXT files from external sources into the EasyReader app.
• Translation updates for Italian, Polish, German, Turkish and Dutch.
• TTS speed slider now increases or decreases in increments of 5% (previously 10%).
• Newspaper options for unsubscribe and logout.
• New Nuance Vocalizer Embedded v3 voices.
• Preview the voices on the web site.
• Bug fixes and stability improvements.
1.4
2017-10-12
Now available in Dutch and Polish languages
Fix for an open book issue from LKF library
1.3
2017-09-15
Addition of two new libraries – LKF (Russia) and ATZ newspapers (German).
Russian translation.
Turkish translation - thank you to Ömer Yesiltas for providing this.
Updated Italian Translation.
Improved experience for remote control of the reading experience (e.g. headset, Bluetooth, locked screen).
VoiceOver improvements in the reader – audio ducking brings VoiceOver commands to the fore and quietens the book audio.
Fixed CELA download crash – previously some content would crash when downloading.
Fixed CELA reading order issues where it would jump to the next chapter when encountering a page number.
Fixed an issue where CELA users had to add a “CELA_” prefix for logging in. They now only need to use their account number and password.
Fixed receiving 2 bookmarks on iPad devices.
Anderslezen library download issue fixed – books which contained ‘…’ in the title would not download.
Fix for crash when logging into a newspaper that had no content on the user account.
1.2
2017-06-27
• Italian translation is now available
• Enabled streaming from CELA Library
• Fixed an issue for returning books to DODP servers
• Fixed an issue for images in some DAISY books
• Various fixes and improvements
1.1
2017-06-06
Add In App Purchasing of voices