5.4.1
2024-03-14
- Fix regression bugs
5.3.1
2024-02-15
- Improve pagination algorithm for EPUB books embedding large images
- Fix bugs
5.3
2024-01-25
- Support switches "Status Bar Always On" and "Status Bar Always Dark" for all iPhone and iPad models
- Simplify Import confirmation dialog of "Exchange | Files" by default
- Fix bugs for some types of EPUB books, including those written in right-to-left direction
- Fix other bugs
5.0.2
2023-10-27
- Fixed bugs
5.0.1
2023-10-03
- Fixed bugs related to book listening, UI Text Size and EPUB footnotes
5.0
2023-09-23
This is a major release with many new features:
- Book listening and immersion reading
. Reading while listening to any EPUB book in sync
. Simple and intuitive UI
. Narrator voices for over 40 languages besides English for your choice
. Choice of voices filtered by current book language
. Ever-improving high-quality voices as provided by iOS
. Remember last voice selection for each language
. Speed control, faster or slower as you see fit in different circumstances
. Timer control, good for many cases including your bedtime reading too
. Play and pause for normal listening
. Play-once and play-repeat for selected words for learning and fun
. Background listening
. Compatible with Lock Screen Music Player
. Compatible with CarPlay
- Senior-friendly UI Text Size control
. Normal and larger font sizes for non-book text in almost all views
. Scalable popover view sizes as appropriate
. Just the right size for comfortable reading and note taking
- Library view
. New "Magnify Book Cover" view for selected book
. Book cover image displayed with new groove-and-shadow effect
. Polished UI look and button re-arrangement
. Enhanced Settings menu
. New in-app help and online help
. Never Read/Marked/Altered section for Sort by Date Read/Marked/Meta Altered respectively
- EPUB viewers
. Refined toolbar and page slider design for all 3 EPUB viewers
. Full-page application of theme (background color and image) to Classic Book viewer
. Refined header and footer layout for Modern Scroll viewer
. New option "Prefer Remaining Page Count"
. Compact context menu with new icons
. Enhanced image zoom view of embedded images
. Enhanced cover image aspect fit on the first page
- PDF viewer
. Refined toolbar and page slider design
- Book Info view
. New image zoom view to preview your choice of book cover image
. Simple editable book language field to fix for immersion reading
- Misc
. New or polished icons everywhere, including Library, Exchange and book viewers
. Performance improvement
. Various minor UI enhancement
. Bug fixes
4.9
2023-09-01
- Optimize code to reduce power consumption
- Add a smart batch download option to prefer OPDS or EPUB embedded metadata
- Add an option to "Restore from Book" in Book Info Edit view to honor empty metadata
- Add "Go to System Settings" to Library Settings
- Update Help of Exchange | iTunes
- Fix a bug that may sometimes lead to loss of last reading position of an opened book when the app is returned from background
- Fix a bug that may sometimes lead to incorrect display of Library view after device rotation
4.8.3
2023-08-01
- Address various issues related to EPUB text selection, note deletion, Library UI
4.8.1
2023-05-18
- Add to Settings the switch "Pinch & Spread to Adjust Font Size"
- Allow Sort by MD5 in Library views when Diagnostics is turned on
- Fix bugs
4.8
2023-02-04
- Add "Set My Translator" to EPUB and PDF reader context menu
- Add "Rebuild Library" in Settings app to fix corrupted book database
- Fix some iOS 16 reader context menu compatibility issues
- Fix bugs including that of false duplication during book import
4.5
2022-08-27
- Support customizable bookshelf background night scenes in addition to day scenes
- Fix bugs
4.4
2022-08-21
- Fix bugs
4.3
2022-05-03
- Provide an option to extract PDF embedded title and author in BookInfo Edit view
- Make Notes view settings persistent
- Fix bugs and improve stability
4.2
2021-12-15
- User Fonts and Custom Fonts for EPUB Text Font and Heading Font
-- Support import of font files in multiple ways as if it were a book file as User Fonts
-- Allow selected system-supplied fonts including those installed by some third-party font apps as Custom Fonts
-- Add “Edit Display Name” for User Fonts and Custom Fonts
- Increase EPUB header/footer font sizes on iPhone for improved legibility
- Fix compatibility issues with latest Dropbox API changes
- Fix compatibility issues with iOS 15 and Xcode 13
- Fix bugs and improve stability
4.1
2021-09-20
- Add the switch “Apply to Theme” for day/night (light/dark) appearances
- Add the popup menu item “Report Bugs...” for book-specific bug reporting
- Auto-copy as the new cover image when you copy from Google Image after tapping Cover Image button in Book Info Edit View
- Increase the size of Description Edit View in Book Info View
- Fix bugs and improve stability
3.6
2020-11-25
- Added "Vertical Scroll" option for PDF
- Addressed some EPUB rendering issues
- Addressed various iOS 14 and iPhone 12 compatibility issues
3.5.2
2020-08-28
- Added an EPUB option "Status Bar Always On" (for iPhone models with a notch)
- Fixed regression bugs
3.5
2020-08-13
Overhauled the underlying EPUB display engine to
- Ensure compatibility with the latest iOS and Xcode development tools
- Reduce memory usage
- Speed up page turning by tapping on edges and swiping in Modern Book View
- Speed up whole-book page numbering
- Fix text selection bugs, due to previous incompatibility introduced by iOS 13
Performed tune-up by
- Upgrading the underlying web server component of PC Upload and Server
- Making the bookshelf view auto-scalable on all iOS devices
- Improving fault-tolerant handling of EPUB files, including those with illegal HTML tags
Added new features including
- Two buttons beside the upper page slider to facilitate EPUB chapter/section navigation
- An option “Fit to Width” for PDF Single Page Landscape
3.4
2020-05-02
- Introduced over 30 keyboard shortcuts for physical keyboards
- Add an option “Single Column if Split View” for EPUB (iPadOS only)
- Add an option “Single Page if Split View” for PDF (iPadOS only)
- Fixed bugs
3.3
2020-03-17
- Added two options “Pair First Page” and “Zero Out Page Gap” for PDF Double Page Landscape
- Added an option “Override Black Background” under “Apply Theme Colors” in EPUB Modern Book and Modern Scroll viewers for every iPhone model with a notch
- Fixed bugs
3.2.2
2020-03-10
- Fixed bugs related to UI text size when iOS Settings text size is not standard size
3.2.1
2019-10-15
- Fixed bugs
3.2
2019-09-14
- Introduced optional collapsible Table of Contents
- Allowed Baidu Translate as a pre-defined Dictionary
- Added one more context menu customization item “My Command 2”
- Fixed bugs
3.1.1
2019-08-27
- Changed behavior of Define so that “Display Vocabulary” will not be turned on as a side effect
- Updated calls to Google Translate API
- Added “Show Author instead of Date” option to Library Sort customization menu
- Fine-tuned the style of the webstie authentication view to make it more prominent
3.1
2019-07-30
- Allowed the choice of any user-defined book set as the default import destination book set
- Enhanced the import command to also recursively import book files from folders
- Added the option of book set membership inference for imported folders containing book files
- Enhanced the built-in OPDS Server to serve book set membership info
- Added the option of book set membership cloning for books downloaded from a remote MapleRead SE OPDS Server
- Added tighter integration with Files app so that files and folders can be copied between the app's File Sharing location and other locations, including cloud drives and AirDrop via Files (for iOS 11 or later)
- Overhauled the app data backup and restore model to make it more robust and work better with iTunes and Files app
- Addressed other general import and export compatibility issues with iTunes 12.3.1 or later
- Addressed stability and performance issues of whole-book page numbering on books with lots of images
3.0.5
2019-03-09
Fixed bugs
3.0.4
2019-02-02
Fixed bugs
3.0.3
2019-01-10
- Addressed bookshelf display issues for 11-inch iPad Pro
- Adjusted bookshelf display for all iPhone models
3.0.2
2019-01-04
- Made the PDF option “Double Page Landscape” sticky
- Fixed some minor EPUB display bugs
3.0.1
2018-11-20
- Fixed 3rd generation iPad Pro compatibility issues
3.0
2018-11-01
This is a major release with many new features:
Optimized universal app
- Native support of new iPhone models: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR
PDF viewer
- Support of text operations, including note highlighting, vocab, search, define and translate
- A lower-contrast built-in night theme for more comfortable night-time reading
- A new gesture control option to turn off "Long Press on Text & Image" for readers who like to rest their thumbs on the screen but do not want to trigger a long press action
EPUB viewers
- New options of Apply Theme Colors for optionally overriding Publisher's Colors
- A new collection of built-in night themes for more comfortable night-time reading
- A cleaner Modern Scroll viewer
New features common to PDF and EPUB viewers
- Unified UI design for a more coherent usage experience
- Enriched note highlighting with 5 customizable colors with on-the-fly opacity adjustment
- Better handling of overlapping notes of different priorities assigned with different colors
- Enhanced annotation view for both day themes and night themes
- Note List View with matching highlight coloring
- One tap to jump between Book Notes View and Library Notes View
- Easier way to manage vocab, including in-situ deletion of any vocab highlight
- New text search options Ignoring Case and Full-book Search
- Longer context strings in the search result table
- Easier navigation from one search highlight to the next or previous one
- Enhanced context menu with more customization options
Library
- New Dark display style in addition to existing Classic and Modern styles
- New book sorting options by Tag and Reading Progress
- New book filtering option by AND-ing in addition to existing OR-ing tags
Exchange
- New OPDS batch download preference Overwrite Library Book, useful for updating serial-story books
PDF Sync Data
- Sync data of PDF from app to the Cloud
- Offer web access to synced data of PDF
Misc
- Other minor new features and enhancement
- Performance improvement
- Bug fixes
2.1.1
2018-07-10
- Addressed various iOS accessibility compatibility issues
- Fixed other minor bugs
2.1
2018-06-17
New Features
- PDF Viewer adds new "Double Page Landscape" option
- PDF Viewer adds "Gesture" control options for page turning
- PDF Viewer delivers superfast "instant" page turning
- PDF Viewer supports two-finger tap gesture for default "Prefer Zoom"
- PDF Viewer refines its various gesture configuration for a smoother user experience
- PDF Viewer is polished to look more like EPUB Viewers for a more coherent user experience
- PDF Viewer's Prefer Zoom is more user-friendly for various iPad split-view configurations
- Exchange supports Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
- EPUB Viewer supports "brightness control by vertical swipe" also when "instant" page turn effect is chosen
Performance Improvement
- App starts up faster
- Library browsing is smoother even with hundreds and thousands of books
- PDF Table of Contents loads faster
Bug Fixes
- EPUB note highlighting might be off or invisible in some corner cases
- Exiting an OPDS catalog abruptly while loading may crash the app in some corner cases
- Some views may not display properly after a device rotation under some conditions
- Other minor bugs
2.0
2018-03-29
This is a major release.
- MapleRead SE becomes a universal app supporting both iPad and iPhone
- MapleRead SE fully supports iOS 11 split-view multitasking
- MapleRead SE and CE can run side-by-side via split-view multitasking of iOS 11
- SE Server supports transfer of book themes and library scenes, in addition to books
- PDF Viewer runs now on iPhone as well as iPad
- PDF Viewer adds “instant” page turn effect
- EPUB Modern Book Viewer adds “instant” page turn effect
- EPUB Viewer adds “Center Header/Footer” option
- EPUB Viewer optimizes “Whole-Book Page Numbering” option and turns it on by default
- Library features a modern totally transparent bookshelf style
- Library scenes can be brightened up gradually to white as well as darkened gradually to black
- Library features 3 additional scenes for users who prefer plain background
- Some Library List Views now feature index bar
- Fixed bugs
1.7.3
2018-02-06
Fixed a bug of Library Bookshelf View affecting only iPad Pro 10.5"
1.7.2
2017-12-31
- Fixed bugs
1.7.1
2017-08-12
Fixed bugs
1.7
2017-06-08
- Added whole-book page numbering (vs. whole-book percentage) system setting for EPUB
- Added "Show Share..." as a new EPUB context menu customization item via More
- Added "Share..." as a new Export & Share menu item of Notes View
- Improved response times of highlighting
- Improved the robustness of sync operations
- Performed bug fixes and other minor enhancement
1.6.6
2017-03-08
Please visit Developer Website to see more details and screenshots.
- Enhanced support of iPad Pro (12.9 inch) at its native resolution
- Added switch "Dim Header/Footer" to conditionally dim header and footer for EPUB Modern styles
- Enhanced independent backup and restore operations to also cover user fonts
1.6.5
2017-02-25
Introduced user fonts for EPUB viewers
- Install your own fonts via “PC Upload”, which talks to your PC web browser wirelessly
- Allow a font display name that is different from the font family name embedded in the font file(s), thereby enabling display of font names in non-ASCII characters, such as non-English European characters, Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and other Unicode characters
- Uninstall unwanted user fonts directly from the Text Font or Heading Font menu
Added other features
- System Settings option to automatically hide controls on a book page turn or scroll
- Display of the user-defined sets of each book in its Book Info Metadata View
- Dimming of the book icon when it is pressed or long pressed in Library Bookshelf View
- EPUB context menu More option “Implicit Copy” to facilitate pasting text into another app referred by “Set My Dictionary” or “Set My Command” using URL schemes with unknown or incomplete parameters
- Some minor tuneup
1.6.4
2017-02-03
Library Sort menu customization via More
- “As-is Author Name” option for displaying names as “First Last” vs. “Last, First” while maintaining the same “Last, First” sorting order when sorted by Author or Author+Series
- “Once per Book” option for showing each book with multiple authors only once instead of multiple times, each time under one of its authors, when sorted by Author or Author+Series
- “Prefer Caibre Date” option for using Calibre's Date as Date Added for each book where applicable (This option was previously located in System Settings)
Made Library Sort by Author (Author+Series) case-insensitive while case-preserving
EPUB context menu customization via More
- Allowed “Set My Dictionary” to point to another app by its URL scheme
- Added “My Command” for a user-defined command with customizable name and URL scheme (e.g. Google Maps)
EPUB viewers
- Enabled displaying an EPUB 3 footnote in a popover view, with the footnote text size proportional to the main text size
- Added options to show/hide independently the header, footer and progress bar in Modern Book viewer
- Added two new fonts, Futura and (dyslexic-friendly) OpenDyslexic, to Text Font and Heading Font menus
Fixed some minor bugs
1.6.3
2017-01-07
EPUB context menu customization via More
- Added choice of built-in and user-defined dictionaries for Define (Dictionary Lookup)
- Added Vocab Builder switch to enable/disable auto-collection of "defined" words into the Vocab list
- Added choice of multi-language translators (Google and Baidu) for Translate
- Added switches to show/hide Translate and Copy
* Note: While Vocab Builder switch controls collection, Display Vocabulary switch controls display.
1.6.2
2016-12-22
- Introduced Prefer-Zoom for PDF reading:
Prefer-Zoom can automatically zoom and pan to where you prefer when you go to a new page. It saves you the hassle of repeatedly setting the same preferred zoom factor and initial reading position per book for more comfortable reading experience in portrait and landscape orientation respectively.
- Enhanced the built-in OPDS/HTML server to give better coverage of book sets and custom/default ordering
- Enabled browsing of Book Info Metadata View of each book sequentially by left/right swiping
- Enhanced the layout of Book Info Metadata View mostly for iPhone
- Added East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts and South Asian fonts for Text Font and Heading Font
- Added tips for first installation and upgrade installation
- Addressed some device rotation issue for iOS 10
1.6.1
2016-11-23
- Extended sync coverage to Date Read in addition to Date Marked as shown in Library
- Introduced "Custom Order" sorting for user-defined book sets
- Introduced "Prefer Calibre Date" in System Settings for sorting by "Date Added"*
- Introduced batch download options to overwrite metadata without re-downloading books from any generic OPDS server
- Introduced a smart batch download option to overwrite metadata from MapleRead SE's OPDS server
- Made other minor enhancements and bug fixes, some specific to iOS 10
* Prerequisite: use batch download from Calibre again to overwrite metadata
1.6
2016-10-21
This is a major release with much improved sync capabilities and a simplified sync UI.
- Enable web access to synced data via web browsers from desktop and mobile devices
- Sync data across your devices running SE, CE or CX editions via secure cloud connection
- Sync reading positions, notes, vocab and bookmarks of books
- Sync data for all books in the library with one tap
- Sync data for the currently opened book with one tap
- Sync data for selected books in the library with the standard edit-select method
- Guarantee deterministic sync results
- Minimize sync traffic between cloud and device
- Enable flexible resolution of potentially multiple reading positions from synced devices
Other changes include:
- Adopted a new app icon
- Renamed "Date Last Edited" to "Date Meta Altered" for the last change of metadata
- Introduced "Date Marked" for the last change of notes, vocab and bookmarks
- Revised the meaning of "Date Read" to record when the book is last closed (vs. opened)
- Increased the number of time ranges for all book sorting by Date options
- Enabled brightness control by vertical swipe on left and right edges in Modern Scroll View
- Prevented unintentional display of toolbars on content scroll in Modern Scroll View
- Replaced checkmarking by highlighting of the entry in Table of Contents corresponding to the current EPUB page
- Enabled highlighting the entry in Table of Contents corresponding to the current PDF page
- Speeded up Table of Contents (TOC) display with current entry highlighting, especially for TOC with hundreds of entries
- Added display of note count per note list
- Enabled display of exact book file size (Diagnostics)
- Made other minor enhancement and bug fixes
1.5.1
2016-08-03
- Fixed a regression bug that may produce mangled book titles for PDF files imported via PC Upload
- Fixed a bug that may produce syntax errors in generated OPDS catalogs
- Added support to a one-step bug report submission process when OPDS catalog syntax error is encountered in diagnostic mode
- Addressed some popover UI issues
1.5
2016-07-08
This is a major release with many new features and enhancements across iPad and iPhone models.
Note that BookMaster has been renamed to MapleRead, starting with this version.
- Enabled migration of all contents and settings of any MapleRead app to any MapleRead app via backup and restore operations (available in iTunes View). For example, backup from SE/CE and then restore to CX, and vice versa.
- Introduced Reading Dimmer as a convenient way to choose between system-wide and app-specific brightness control, optionally dependent on night mode, good for battery-saving and extra dimming
- Added new page layout features applicable to EPUB Modern Book style
+ Page margin settings: independent control of left/right and top/bottom margins
+ Page turn effect: additional page curl effect like Classic Book style (or iBooks)
- Added new EPUB multi-language text translation support
- Fine-tuned EPUB layout algorithms for rendering fidelity of Publisher's style and enforcing of User's override
- Simplified Library View's book search bar
- Drastically speeded up book set copy, move and remove operations when Library has many books
- Addressed some performance issues when browsing in Library views
- Upgraded all built-in theme and scene images to retina resolution
- Upgraded BMD, the file format for import and export of notes, scenes and themes, to be much more compact for user-defined themes that share images with built-in themes*
- Gave better visual feedback when the book Download button is tapped
- Gave better visual feedback of import results of books, themes, scenes and notes in PC Upload and Queue views
- Fixed some minor UI inconsistency, popover and rotation issues
* If you have such user-defined themes, please export them with MapleRead 1.5 before importing them into MapleRead 1.5 on another device.
1.4.1
2016-05-18
- Added a new way Author+Series to arrange books first by Author, second by Series, third by Volume, and fourth by Title
- Provided more useful information in Flat and Hierarchical Booklist views by Author and by Series
- Added built-in OPDS+HTML Book Server support of listing books by Author+Series
- Enhanced built-in HTML Book Server to serve webpages that look more like enhanced Library Booklist views
- Enhanced book download support from more HTML websites, such as wiki.mobileread.com and freefullpdf.com
- Enhanced one-step book import from embedded external links in some EPUB books
- Addressed an issue with library scene image resolution on Retina Display
- Addressed issues with overriding publisher's text color of some EPUB books with app's theme text color
- Addressed issues with importing books with filenames containing special characters via PC Upload
- Fixed minor UI inconsistency in Notes view
- Fixed some minor bugs
1.4
2016-04-07
This is a major release laying the groundwork for future sync services via our own secure cloud service.
- Book reading progress is supported now; more attributes will be supported later.
Other changes include:
- Added a system setting to choose between app-specific or system brightness control
- Added a gesture setting to turn off user selection by long press on EPUB pages
- Added San Francisco font for both EPUB text and heading (iOS 9 required)
- Turned the current book set label into a toggle button that hides and shows the library search bar
- Added support of downloading themes and scenes from OPDS catalogs
- Enhanced support of calibre-specific extension to OPDS catalog for importing book series and volume
- Addressed issues with the behavior of popover views when the device is rotated and unlocked
- Addressed issues with import/download queue status management
- Addressed issues with concurrent downloading of multiple copies of a new book
- Addressed issues with the book cover image picker built as a specialized browser
- Addressed issues with some gesture conflict when an EPUB page is turned
- Addressed issues with EPUB page display when column rule is on and the font size is very small
- Fixed minor UI inconsistency in various places
1.3
2016-01-29
Thanks to popular customer feedback
- Added an option to make the bookshelf transparent
- Added an option to control screen brightness with a vertical swipe
- Added a bolder Sans Serif font for both EPUB text and heading
- Fixed bugs