An EPUB with Media Overlays already carries its narration, yet the Chapters tab required audio files and the Editions panel offered to request an audiobook the book already had.
List the narration sections of such an EPUB as a read-only chapter list, and count the narration as the audio half when deciding which format is missing. The chapters state gains an optional readAlong flag, so released clients keep working. Editing stays tied to audio files, because an EPUB has no chapter metadata to write.
Ref #2032
Podcasts shipped switched off in every release and are now removed from the server,
web client and shared types. Migration 0132 drops the podcast tables and the media-type,
library-type and folder-role columns. Released iOS and Android builds read the removed
response fields as optional, so the API change stays compatible.
Achievement names, descriptions and category labels, the secret placeholder and the monthly
challenge are text the server writes and every client shows as is, so they stayed English in a
translated web page and will in the localized iOS app. The routes that return them now read
Accept-Language and answer in that language, with Vary: Accept-Language.
The translations live in the web's catalogs under serverText, so Crowdin, its checks and its
translators handle them through the existing pipeline; the server reads that subtree, and the image
copies the catalogs beside dist. English is never looked up: a request without the header, and
every client that predates it, gets the bytes it got before. A test keeps serverText in en.json
equal to the seed and the constants it mirrors. The web now sends its chosen language on every API
request, and the Accept-Language matcher moved into @bookorbit/types so the client and the server
negotiate the same way.
The iOS app is a consumer the web client does not show: it will send its own interface language.
App Store builds that predate that still send the device language, so on a non-English device they
will start getting translated achievement names inside English screens. That was accepted; the
response shape does not change.
Ref bookorbit/bookorbit-ios-support#79
Report a linked copy whose bytes differ from the library file as positionIncompatible instead of
unmatched, so the plugin keeps the match, skips highlights without a failure and still syncs progress.
Treat a position-less place within a page as the same place and jump to the nearest page.
Suggest library books with the same title and authors for books to review, with bulk linking.
See docs/KOREADER_HASH_MATCHING.md.
Closes#1872Closes#1919
Offer the one-folder-per-series layout Komga and Kavita use as a File as Book path-rule preset
rather than a new organization mode, so released iOS builds and both existing modes are unaffected.
Add a job that applies saved rules to books already in a library, and keep a run year such as
"Batman (2016)" when ComicInfo or a provider names the series without it.
Ref #1167
Ref #1918
Ref #839
Pick folders from a lazily loaded tree with find-by-name and typed paths, beside a plan showing
the books each organization mode would import, overlaps with other libraries, and folders no
library reads yet. New ManageLibraries /path routes walk folders within entry and time bounds.
Fix the scanner filing a disc-named library folder such as /mnt/disk1 under the folder above it,
and move books already filed there onto their primary file on the next scan.
Promote Viewer grants to Editor on book libraries for non-superusers who hold Edit metadata but
can edit nowhere, which is how every such account was left after the upgrade. Accounts with any
Editor or Owner role are left alone. The Users drawer now says where Edit metadata takes effect,
read from a new GET /users/:id/library-access route.
Closes#1902
Register book-metadata-provider services by address, with no code change per
provider; Settings lists ready-made ones to install. Ranking prefers a record of
the book's own medium. LubimyCzytac moves out to its own provider and Aladin,
whose API closes, is retired; their ids stay. Adds migrations 0129 and 0130.
See docs/METADATA_PROVIDERS.md.
Ref #1405
Add a History page listing every read newest first, rereads included, as a
virtualized ledger or month cover walls, with period totals, per-read ratings,
export and a share image. Deleting a book keeps its finished reads under a
title and author snapshot (migration 0128).
Closes#1630
Add a Chapters tab to edit chapter timing and titles, look chapters up on Audible or in the ebook,
snap starts to pauses, keep a version history and write chapters into M4B, M4A and MP3 files. Add a
chapter health tool with a bulk Audible lookup queue. Editing needs Editor access to the book's
library. Chapter edits keep released iOS playback working by accepting a stale manifest revision
while the track layout is unchanged.
Ref #1120
Resolve book languages stated as names ("English") to a code, so the
dialog and the server's fallback stop calling English unsupported. The
dialog groups the ebook and audiobook in a Sources card, shows
Highlighting without the Advanced disclosure, and saves a per-user
default under /user-preferences/read-aloud for books it cannot match.
Show one notice above the release picker naming the client, with a
Try again that resends the same release, instead of a chip on every
row. Grab failures carry the client name in errorMeta, and transport
errors read "connection refused" rather than "fetch failed".
Generate a synced read-aloud EPUB from a book's EPUB and audiobook through an
optional STAlign worker (Docker on CPU, or native with MLX on Apple Silicon),
with review, re-sync, replace in place, restart recovery and live progress on
the Files tab. Book details also stack the ebook and audiobook covers when
both exist. See docs/READ_ALOUD.md.
Allow users to build bounded historical windows without hard-coded calendar dates. Keep the API additive and advertise support for independently released clients.
Closes#1751
Let users edit author facts, choose and pin a provider record, and keep later refreshes tied to that record. Preserve compatibility for older clients through additive API fields and a discoverable server feature.
Keep server typechecking deterministic by breaking circular Drizzle inference and correcting the nullability mismatches it previously hid.
Closes#1464
Allow request searches to browse broader provider result sets, rerun queries by exact author, and submit unmatched titles for approval. Advertise the optional limit so older clients retain their existing contract.
Closes#1363
Add a per-login setting, on by default, that leaves books whose content files are all audio out
of the plugin catalog, its counts and bulk downloads, and drops a library holding nothing else.
The plugin detail page also names the first file the device can open as the main file.
Closes#1345
Torznab and Newznab read the feed's details page, plugins may send infoUrl, and the
search drops any link that could carry a credential. A grab can ask to be held for
review whatever its score, and the held review shows the file's own edition facts,
its cover and the release page. Torznab guids are now digested like Newznab's.
Refs #1438
Add a Customize sidebar mode, opened from any section menu or Cmd+K, that hides rows and groups
and reorders them by drag or keyboard, with reset and undo. The layout saves to a new
sidebarLayout setting; a hidden Book Dock or Requests row returns while work is waiting.
Also line up the Rows shown menu labels, which sat 3px apart.
Closes#1434
Show the sync control only for a read-along EPUB with audio files or another
EPUB copy, so lone read-along EPUBs and plain audiobooks no longer show an
Unavailable card. Fold the card into a pill in the format row whose two-track
meter shows the state, with the details and toggle in a popover. Your Reading
now lists three recent sessions.
Fixes#1845
Squash of feat/koreader-widget-board. KOReader plugin 2.0.0 gets the widget-board dashboard, redesigned
book details, menus, lists and dialogs, Decor page and reading companions. Highlights, notes and bookmarks
now stay in step across web, Kobo, KOReader and the phones (defects D-00 to D-20, migration 0121), and
reading progress and narration hand off cleanly between devices.
A page load during a server restart read the failed session refresh as
signed out and stranded the reader on /login. Boot now holds the first
navigation behind a reconnect screen and retries until the server
answers, and api() keeps the session when a refresh gets a 5xx or no
connection.
A Kobo asks for each cover at its screen size but always got the
400x600 grid thumbnail, so sleep screens and full-screen covers were
blurry. Scale the full cover to fit the requested box instead, behind a
new Full-size covers setting that is on by default. Drop the stale
UserStorage entries from the authorization matrix gap baseline.
Fixes#924
A replacement byte-identical to the device's copy was never downloaded, so
it stayed offered and every bookmark the device pushed was discarded.
Keep the current delivery instead, and tell the user in the replacement
panel that the device already has this copy.
Ref #1786
feat(metadata): extract metadata from file paths with regex rules (#1669)
Let libraries define ordered regex rules that read title, authors, series,
series number and dates from each book's path relative to its library folder.
Run rules in a bounded worker pool, honour source precedence and field locks,
and apply them on scans, uploads and watcher moves. Also retry unprobed M4B
tag writes with the mp4 muxer.
Closes#1351
Co-authored-by: neon <18559658+neonsolstice@users.noreply.github.com>
Put every auth page on a shared Ex Libris plate with signature-line fields, a show-password toggle and a Caps Lock hint.
Show sign-in messages outside the password form, with Retry, a reset link on lockout and a reset confirmation.
Add language and endpaper pickers (eight repeats) to the auth toolbar, replacing the background and corner controls.
Show the global rule and each library's own rule on Field Rules-style tabs, with live counts per
condition, the score histogram and the books a run would take. Store only what a library changes,
run every library with its own rule, and record each library's run. Also fix the DjVu queue test
that assumed which request waits, and inventory the DjVu reader routes.
Reader › Fonts now uses the Server Fonts ledger, family sheet and upload tray for a reader's own
fonts, and lists the server's fonts with a show/hide switch and a preview sheet. The shared pieces
move to features/settings/fonts and the ledger columns narrow to give the specimen room.
Server: additive GET /fonts/usage and PATCH /fonts/families, upload error codes, and a 409 instead
of a 500 when a reader uploads a second file for the same face.
Changes, Sign-ins, Security and All views replace the filter form. Repeats fold into one row,
sign-ins fold per person, day and network, and rows name their targets; events now snapshot
the target's name so deleted ones keep it. The drawer adds the event's facts, the target's
history, what the same person did around it, and one-click scoping. New additive routes:
/audit-log/summary, /sign-ins and /export; retention is editable from the page.
Each family is a row with its specimen, a weight grid of the styles readers get and how readers
use it; its sheet previews the face on reader pages and inside the reader's own font list. Uploads
answer per file in one tray, removing a family confirms with its cost, and a rename is one request.
Server: additive GET /server-fonts/usage (counts only), PATCH /server-fonts/families, upload error codes.
Show each custom field on one row with its type, libraries and how many
books are filled, and edit, create, archive and delete it in the settings
sheet. Order Edit Metadata and card values by the order set on this page,
and add usageByLibrary to the admin field list, an additive field.
Replace the card grid with medals, a showcase, category shelves, a record book and a
detail sheet. Add GET /achievements/hints, which explains how to unlock what is still
locked from the user's own library and reading history, backed by a new page-count
index. Year-Round Reader now reports its months read as progress.
Remove AppHeader. The sidebar gains a Search row that opens a Cmd+K palette (books, authors,
series, places, settings pages and actions), a utility dock above the footer, and a Reading
group below the lists. Every page opens with a shared PageTitleRow; phones without one get a
slim bar. Settings headers gain a full description, and the top glow defaults to 50% with one
reach and strength for every style. The Appearance panel opens past the sidebar, reorders its
controls and names the current pick, and keeps each pastel accent under its vivid one.
Library, smart scope, collection, authors and series pages share a new
BrowseHeader: the place and its actions on one row, then search, sort,
filters and facets in one bar that folds groups instead of wrapping.
Format chips count from the new POST /libraries/:id/books/facets, built
on the listing's own query; scopes and collections gain filter and sort.
Replace the lattice placeholder with a typesetting engine that measures real glyphs, balances line
breaks and parses series, subtitles and sort-form authors before drawing.
Add a placeholderCoverStyle display preference, Bauhaus by default, with a style switcher and sample
shelf in Book Covers settings. Colours follow the series, author or title, so a cover stays the same
when genres arrive later; only Paperback's bands use genre.
Scanned books are commonly distributed as DjVu, which the scanner only stored as a supplement.
Decode pages on the server with DjVuLibre so DjVu imports with a cover and page count, opens in
the image reader with its embedded OCR text, and can be the preferred format of an ordinary email
recipient. Migration 0113 widens the recipient format check to allow it.
Decoding runs on validated private snapshots behind a bounded, reader-first queue, and
revalidation and cached pages are answered without a decoder. Released iOS builds cannot open
DjVu, so series continuation offers it only to callers sending includeDjvu=true, and the
dashboard and notebook read file never name it. The first full scan after upgrading promotes
stored .djvu supplements to content.
Library access roles had no effect on metadata editing: only the global Edit metadata permission
was checked, so a Viewer could edit every library they could see and an Editor could not be
limited to one library. Require Editor or Owner on the book's library for every metadata write,
including bulk edits, locks, covers, file renames, entity manager changes and author edits, and
hide the matching actions in the web client.
Keep existing access levels when an admin saves a user's library list. The old replace reset every
row to Viewer, which would now silently revoke editing on each user save.
Existing grants are Viewer, so after upgrading, admins must set Editor on each library where a
non-superuser should keep editing metadata. The released iOS app already gates editing on Editor.
Closes#1778
The Book Dock discarded every upload failure, so a rejected file looked like nothing happened.
List failed files with a translated reason, offer retry where it can help, and stop a failed
token refresh, abort or timeout from stalling the upload queue. Dropped files of unsupported
types are reported instead of ignored.
Refs #1739
Fold six tabs into Recipients, Mail servers, Templates and History, where only problems get
colour and one star sets each default through email_preferences. Replace the send dialog with
a sheet that preselects the default recipient and follows the send. Server additions are
optional fields and routes, so released iOS builds keep working.
Add original and text-only EPUB delivery choices across Kobo, KOReader,
OPDS, web downloads and email while keeping source files unchanged.
Persist server defaults, device overrides and captured artifact identities
so retries and guided replacement retain the selected rendition.
Preserve saved progress across first opens, replacement resets and stale
updates, and project annotations against the copy delivered to each device.
Handle XML resource references, large inodes, retry backoff and background
worker state correctly. Consolidate the schema changes into one migration
and retain released-client request and response compatibility.
Verify with the full server and client checks, delivery and sync HTTP suites,
independent code reviews, and live KOReader download/settings/reader proof.
Fixes#1496Closes#1603Closes#1714Fixes#1723
Ref #1633
Ref #1508
Ref #1621
Ref #1136
Repeated searches and refreshes asked every provider again, which is slow and runs into provider
rate limits. Keep each provider's answer in Postgres, shared by all users, and reuse it until an
admin-set lifetime runs out. Search screens mark saved results and offer a fresh search, and
explicit refreshes stay live, falling back to a saved answer only when a provider fails.
Empty answers are only kept for API providers that report failures reliably, and a cache-only
request never calls a provider in cooldown. Book Dock's manual refetch stays live-only because
the dock has nowhere to report a fallback. Released iOS builds keep working: every new request
field is optional and newer clients gate it on the metadata-search-cache server feature.
Add a Style setting beside mode, accent, radius and background. Nostalgia restyles the app through
tokens only (neutral surface palettes, system type, flat shell, top glow) and pins background,
opacity and brightness. Add a top glow reach slider for both styles. Tidy the theme layer first:
charts read live tokens, bare `rounded` follows the radius scale, one shared sign-in toolbar.
Also carries the settings page header redesign.
Lead fetches with the primary file, give Book Dock its library's rules and read-along media,
default audiobook fields to sources that carry them, and flag providers that never fill a field.
Joining a format now fills gaps only and respects locks; a move picks its primary as a scan would.
Link two ordinary requests as companions, filed into one book, with a Both search,
grouped list rows, a tabbed release picker and a book-page request for the missing
format. Retire comic requests, keeping old rows readable. File Book Dock covers by the
field rules with a shape check, and re-pick a moved book's primary by its new library.
Pick the face slot from the primary file's medium instead of the library's
ratio, and send that frame per book on cards, detail, notebook labels and
recommendations. Grids keep uniform tiles, and the library setting becomes
Grid shape.
Keep text and narration bookmarks independent when opening and navigating EPUBs.
Use the narrated section for sentence bookmarks and attribute delayed page moves to narration.
Recover stalled WebKit blob frames with a bounded fallback that preserves XHTML location structure.
Cover restoration, narration attribution, and iframe fallback behavior with regression tests.
Closes#1708
Carry ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 independently from accepted providers through
Auto-fill previews, saves and background refreshes. Preserve existing
identifiers and field locks, validate provider checksums and avoid
combining different editions.
Classify embedded ISBNs correctly and support ISBN-10 fallback in
search, Book Dock confidence and file naming.
Add account-scoped reminders for the metadata fields users care about.
Treat either ISBN as complete, accept a publication year or date, and
skip page-count reminders for audio-only books.
Place reminders after the genre blocklist and allow customization from
the editor without discarding unsaved changes.
Let users inspect missing fields without launching provider searches.
Keep metadata searches manual by default and expose a remembered
opt-in beside Search.
neon
Dennis