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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 13 Nov 21:19
  • The Notes tab opens faster (it took a few seconds on a Paperwhite 3 where Downloads and the Catalog open at once): its sticky notes are tilted about 4 times faster, a touch Kindle draws the board once on opening instead of twice, and each note's picture is kept, so opening the tab again, a sync that changed nothing or going back a page redraws only the notes that changed. The calendar's sticky notes are tilted faster too.
  • On touch Kindles the new-note editor has Draw: a page to draw on with Thin, Medium and Thick, Eraser (rubs out whole strokes), Undo and Clear. Done keeps the drawing with the note, and Save sends both to Memos, where the drawing is an attachment that Memos (its next version, with drawings) opens as a drawing you can go on editing; older Memos show it as a picture. A note can be just a drawing. On a Kindle with a pen (the Scribe) only the pen draws: fingers don't, and while the pen is near the screen your hand can rest on it (it's ignored); the pen's other end rubs out. Other touch Kindles draw with one finger. Drawings need Memos over Wi‑Fi (not through the computer).
  • A note's drawing (made on the Kindle or in Memos) now shows as a picture in the note: on the Notes tab under the note's heading, if it has one, as big as the note allows (bigger with Layout → Full), and when you open the note after its text, as wide as the page (tap it to see it on its own). It's no longer only a line under Attachments. Drawings come down by themselves on Wi‑Fi like other pictures, and a note no longer waits for a second look to show a picture that was already downloading.
  • On touch Kindles, Edit on a note with a drawing opens the drawing to go on with it: draw, rub out (also strokes made in Memos), Undo, Clear. Done goes back to the note's text, and Save puts the new drawing in Memos over the old one, under the same attachment, as Memos' own Edit drawing does (an older Memos gets the new one added and the old one removed; someone else's drawing gets your version beside it). A drawing made in Memos that's bigger than the screen is shrunk to fit; its shapes and text stay as they are and can't be changed on the Kindle. Done on an empty page takes the drawing off the note. A note without a drawing can get one too (✎ Draw in its editor).
  • The quick panel's Quick note now opens in a window over whatever is on the screen (the book, Home, Settings) instead of a full page: the page stays visible around it. On touch Kindles the window sits above the on-screen keyboard, and a tap outside it is the same as Back (it asks whether to save when you've written something). New notes and edits from the Notes tab still use the full page.
  • In the note editor on touch Kindles and the Kindle 4, the on-screen keyboard stayed on top of the Save this note? dialog (Back or ✕ after writing something), so you couldn't reach Save or Keep writing, and of the Add a tag list and the New tag box. The keyboard now steps aside while one of them is open and comes back when you go back to writing.
  • On touch Kindles the note editor now works like Memos' web editor. The note shows formatted on one page (headings big, lists with • and numbers, checklists with ☐ and ☑, bold and italic) and you type straight into it; there's no Markdown and no   to see. Tap to put the cursor somewhere; hold a word to select it and drag to stretch the selection. The toolbar works on the selection, or on the cursor's line or word: Head (a heading, a smaller one, then text again), List, Check and Num (the same one again makes the lines text), B and I, and # Tag. Tap ☐ to tick an item. Enter starts the next list item (Enter on an empty item ends the list); Backspace at the start of a line joins it to the one before; swipe to scroll a long note. Code, quotes, tables and pictures show as their Markdown and edit as text. Save writes the note as Memos' rich editor does, and lines you didn't change are kept exactly as they were. Keyboard Kindles keep the Markdown editor.
  • The on-screen keyboard's letters page has Enter and the ← → arrows again in boxes where you type several lines (notes, KOReader's text editor). One-line boxes (search, names, passwords) keep the shorter bottom row, with Enter on the symbols page.
  • On a Kindle without a speaker or headphone jack (Kindle 4, Paperwhite and later), and in the Audiobooks tab, the Catalog has one page, so the line under its title (where Kindles with audio show the Books · Audiobooks · Music dots) was left empty. That line is gone: the search bar sits right under the title as other tabs start, and the shelves below get the room. Lists opened from the Catalog move up the same way.
  • The Notes tab's buttons are now Note (a new note) and Draw, which opens a new note straight on a page to draw on; Done goes to the note's text and Save sends it. The drawing screen has a second row: the page's paper (Blank, College ruled, Wide ruled, Gregg ruled, Dot grid or Graph; new pages start on the last one chosen), ◀ ▶ between pages, and + New page, which adds another drawing to the note. Each page goes to Memos as a drawing of its own, its paper as Memos keeps a background (a locked picture under everything), so Memos shows and keeps it. Edit on a note with several drawings opens them all as pages, and pictures added in Memos now show on the Kindle (they used to be an outline). The pages keep their order in Memos (it lists a note's attachments newest first, so GZreader puts them back in page order), a stroke on paper stops at the paper's edge, and Draw opens the drawing screen straight away instead of showing the text page first.
  • Catalog → the Grimmory card opens a list drawn like ZenOS's Settings and the Calendar and Notes connect lists: an icon on each row, an arrow on the ones that do something, ZenOS's row height. The first row says whether you're signed in, with your account and server on the right; then Rebuild library, Reconnect with QR code or Connect with QR code, Connect by typing, Copy from another GZreader (or Sync with computer on a Kindle without Wi-Fi), and About Grimmory.
  • Catalog → Music (or Audiobooks from Plex) → the Plex card opens a list drawn like ZenOS's Settings → Connections → Plex: an icon on each row; who you're signed in as; Plex server, Music library, Audiobooks from and Quality when converting each show their value on the right and open a choice (the three quality lines and the "Use the server" lines are gone); Make bigger MP3 and AAC smaller is a switch; then Sign out of Plex.
  • Settings → General → Storage: the Music line says how many are downloaded ("12 downloaded · 1.2 GB"); "12 albums and playlists · 1.2 GB" was cut off at the end of the row.
  • Calendar tab → M → Calendar settings opened KOReader's drop-down menu over the calendar (an empty tab bar with a gear, small rows with ▸). It now opens Settings → Connections → Calendar (CalDAV), ZenOS's own page with the same settings drawn like the rest of Settings; the calendar is drawn again when you close it.
  • Built on ZenOS 4.3.2. The table of contents folds subchapters under their chapter (the chapter you're reading starts unfolded), and can show each chapter's page count (Settings → Reader → Table of contents). On a touch Kindle, Settings → Home → Books → Double tap now lets you choose what a single tap and a double tap on a book do (for example tap to open, double tap for the book's menu); a saved Double-tap to open a book carries over. Left and right margins can be set apart. Fixed: swiping through chapters and bookmarks in the page browser skipped every other page; following a link inside a book could highlight the whole page; the highlight menu's More button did nothing with some plugins.

Changes since v1.29.0.

Download

Already on GZreader: Settings → Updates (Kindles without Wi‑Fi: the sync page). To install: https://github.com/9retirement6irk/GZreader/wiki/Installing

  • gzreader-kindle-legacy-1.30.0.zip: Kindle 2, DX, Kindle Keyboard
  • gzreader-kindle-1.30.0.zip: Kindle 4, Kindle Touch
  • gzreader-kindlepw2-1.30.0.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.6.1 – 5.16.2
  • gzreader-kindlehf-1.30.0.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.16.3 and later
  • gzreader-nook-1st-edition-1.30.0.zip: Nook 1st Edition (test build)
  • gzreader-nook-1.30.0.zip: Nook Simple Touch (test build)

v1.29.0

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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 12 Nov 21:27
  • In the Bookshelf view, Downloads → Audiobooks and Downloads → Music no longer stand as thin cassette and CD spines that turn round only when picked: every cassette and CD faces out with its cover showing, and its name is on a little plate on the shelf under it. A tap (or Press, or its letter) opens it straight away; the one the 5-way is on has a frame. With nothing there to turn, the shelves no longer keep a gap for a turned cover, so more fit on a shelf; a page holds as many as fit.
  • Settings → General → Wi‑Fi now has HTTP proxy (tap to turn it on or off, hold to set its address) and Network info under the networks; they were in KOReader's Network settings. KOReader's "Disable Wi‑Fi connection when inactive" is no longer offered: it turned Wi‑Fi off after five quiet minutes even when Wi‑Fi was set to On, and Auto already turns it off when it's not needed. If it was ticked, it's turned off.
  • Settings opens with General at the top. General → Screen is KOReader's Screen menu (DPI, E-ink settings, screen timeout, fullscreen and the rest), moved from KOReader's settings; it replaces General → Screen refresh. Its E-ink settings now hold every flash setting: KOReader's Full refresh rate, then Flash on every page turn, Flash when the screen changes and Partial pages refresh, then KOReader's others. Flash on every CBZ page turn is gone: comics now follow KOReader's Always flash on pages with images (under Full refresh rate; on unless you untick it), so every CBZ page flashes while it's ticked.
  • Settings → About → Advanced (it was General → Advanced) no longer has Extract metadata (book details and covers are read as books are shown) or Show hidden files; if Show hidden files was ticked, it's turned off, so the Downloads tab stops listing hidden and unsupported files.
  • Settings → Interface → Quick panel starts with Open with a tap at the top and Open with a swipe down from the top (both by default; untick one to keep only the other). They're KOReader's Activate menu; its Auto-show bottom menu is no longer offered. Also no longer offered: Disable double tap (GZreader has no double-tap actions; if it was unticked, taps in a book waited for a second one, and it's ticked again) and Book metadata location and Move book metadata (GZreader looks for a book's metadata next to it).
  • Settings no longer has a KOReader section. KOReader's whole menu, with nothing left out (also what GZreader hides or has elsewhere), is in Settings → About → Advanced → KOReader settings, for whatever is open (Home or the book). Advanced itself moved from General to the end of About, with the diagnostic log at its top, and Send debug reports automatically is just above it in About. Allow dragging reader modals is gone (pop-up windows stay where they open; if it was ticked, it's turned off). Changes made on purpose in KOReader settings are kept: GZreader turns KOReader's Wi-Fi timeout off and Disable double tap back on only once.
  • Settings no longer has a Downloads section: its Appearance, Folders, Books and Context menu (the Downloads tab's layout, covers, bookshelf theme, folders and book options) are in Settings → Home, after Home's own rows. They work as before.
  • New: Settings → Connections → Immich (Photos). Connect your Immich server with an API key (with a QR code on your phone, by typing, or on the sync page for Kindles without Wi‑Fi), choose an album, and its pictures can be the sleep screen (the book's cover while reading and an Immich picture elsewhere, or an Immich picture always; also as two new tiles in Settings → General → Sleep → Wallpaper) and the Home wallpaper (Settings → Interface → Wallpaper → Picture from Immich). The Kindle keeps 10, 20 or 50 of them, made to fit its screen in grey, so they show without Wi‑Fi; on Wi‑Fi (at most every 6 hours, or Get new pictures now) half of them are swapped for others from the album, and the wallpaper changes too. The API key is kept like the other sign-ins and never written to the log.
  • The setup page in your browser (the quick panel → Send books, or a QR code) has two new tabs: Immich (connect, choose the album, use it for the sleep screen and the wallpaper, how many pictures to keep, get new ones now) and Sleep screen (send your own pictures to the screensavers folder, made in the browser to fit the Kindle's screen in grey; take ones off; choose which sleep screen).
  • The sync page (Kindle 2, DX) connects to Immich too: Connections → Immich (the address and an API key, the album, how many pictures, the Home wallpaper), and Content → Sleep screen pictures offers the two Immich choices. Each sync brings new pictures from the album, made on the computer for the Kindle's screen. Immich only answers web pages it's told to: the wiki (Home and bookshelves → Immich from the sync page) has the lines to add to your server's proxy.
  • On Kindles whose light can be made warmer (Paperwhite 5 and newer, Oasis 3, Scribe, Colorsoft) the quick panel has a warmth slider under the light's, from Cool to Warm: tap or drag it, or step it with − and +. As with the light, the swipe that opens the panel leaves it alone. Other Kindles keep the light slider alone.
  • The quick panel has a Quick note tile (at Home and in a book) while Memos is connected: it opens the note editor over whatever is on the screen, and Save puts you back where you were — in the book, at Home or in Settings. The note is sent to Memos in the background a moment later (only the note: the Notes tab's list is fetched the next time you open it); without Wi‑Fi it waits, as other notes do. The editor offers your tags even when the Notes tab hasn't been opened yet. Hide the tile in Settings → Interface → Quick panel.
  • The Notes tab can show your notes the way the Memos web app does: L (or Layout on a touch Kindle, or Menu → Layout on a Kindle 4) chooses a List (one note under another), Two side by side (as before), Three side by side, or Auto (as many side by side as fit the screen: two upright, three sideways), and Compact (every note the same size, a long one cut off, as before) or Full (each note as long as it needs, with all its pictures, nothing cut off; a note too long for the page goes on in the empty column to its right or on the next page, marked continued). The same choices are in Settings → Connections → Memos (Notes) → Layout, and are kept.
  • On the Downloads bookshelf an ornament no longer stands on the top shelf when the walkman (Audiobooks) or the CD player (Music) is there: it stood between the books and the player. The shelves under it keep their ornaments; a page whose only shelf of books is the top one has none.
  • With a Memos that has spaces (v0.31 and newer), the Notes tab's Filter has Space… (No space, or one of the spaces you're a member of, with how many notes each has), and the note editor has a space chip beside who can see the note (tap it or Alt+A): No space or one of your spaces. A new note starts in the space the board is showing. In a space, who can see it also offers Space members; taking a note out of its space turns that into Private, as Memos does. The note's page says which space it's in. Kindles that sync through a computer get the same (the sync page brings your spaces and sends each note's space).
  • The buttons under the Notes tab's title on touch Kindles are now New note, Filter, Layout, Sort, Connection and a full screen icon. Sort sorts your notes: Sort notes by Date created or Date edited, Reverse order (oldest first) and Pinned first (also S on keyboard Kindles, and Menu → Sort… on a Kindle 4). Full screen hides the tab bar at the bottom for more notes on a page; the icon turns into an X to leave it (also in Layout, and Settings → Connections → Memos (Notes) → Layout).
  • Memos 26.11's rich editor writes an empty paragraph as  , and some characters as codes (|, &) or with a backslash (\*, \#). The Notes tab showed those as they were written; now such a line is a blank line and the codes and escapes show as their characters, on the sticky notes and on a note's page. The note itself is unchanged.
  • Music's player is easier to use by touch. Three tabs along the top: Now playing (the CD player, the track, a progress bar you tap to jump to that time, big previous · play/pause · next keys, then Shuffle, Repeat and the volume), Queue (the album's tracks in big rows: tap one to play it; Up/Down pages; Shuffle and Stop) and Library (Recently played, Recently added, Playlists, Albums, Artists, On this Kindle, with Search above and Shuffle all and your Plex account below; inside a list, Back and where you are at the top). The Queue and Library tabs keep what plays on a strip with its pause key; tap the strip for Now playing. Stop is no longer next to Next. Kindle 2, Keyboard and DX: each key's letter is on its button; Z X C open the tabs (F still goes between the queue and the library); on Now playing ◀ ▶ go 10 s back or ahead (Q and E change track); the volume keys show the level on Now playing.
  • A House tab (off until you turn it on): your Home Assistant rooms with their lights, switches, thermostats, locks, garage doors and scenes, to switch from the Kindle. Connect in Settings → Connections → Home Assistant (House): with a QR code (paste the address and a long-lived access token on your phone), by finding Home Assistant on the Wi-Fi, or by typing; then tick House tab there. A switch toggles, a dimmable light opens a dimmer (On, Off, −/+ 10%, 10/40/80/100%), a thermostat its target a step down or up; locks and garage doors ask before unlocking or opening. Rooms need an administrator's token; another one groups things by kind. GZreader talks to Home Assistant directly over the Wi-Fi; the token is never written to the log. Not on the Kindle 2 and DX (no Wi-Fi).
  • The Notes tab's More button (M on keyboard Kindles) is now Connection, and holds only your Memos account: Refresh, Connect again and Disconnect. New note, Filter, Layout, Sort and Full screen have their own buttons (and...
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v1.28.3

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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 11 Nov 23:32
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  • GZreader no longer sends usage statistics (time in books and tabs, what plays, downloads, syncs, battery), and what was waiting on the Kindle is deleted. What's left is one choice, in the setup guide's new Debug Reports page and Settings → General → Send debug reports automatically: when something goes wrong (errors, freezes, crashes), GZreader tells its developer while Wi‑Fi is on. It's off unless you choose it; if you had usage statistics set to Full, which sent these, it stays on. Send diagnostic log to the developer works as before. The sync page no longer sends a Kindle 2's or DX's usage statistics either.
  • The bookshelves (Home, Downloads, and the spines in the Catalog) are drawn after AndyHazz's Bookshelf plugin: seen from a little above, so each book shows the top of its page block between its boards; the whole title runs along the spine (a long one in two or three lines of smaller type instead of being cut off) with the author after it in smaller type, or on its own line where there's no room after it, and a book's number in its series stands level at the foot. The books cast a soft shadow on the wall behind them, and the board shows its top, darker at the back.
  • Settings → Downloads → Appearance → Bookshelf theme: the plank the books stand on, on Home, in Downloads and on the Catalog's ledges, is Oak to begin with (the plank of AndyHazz's Bookshelf plugin, in greys), or Walnut (darker), or Plain (flat greys, as before). Ornaments stand on a shelf's free end, on the plank beside the books: where there's room (to begin with), on every page (the shelves that get one keep room for it), or not at all. Where and how many (in the same menu): on Home, in Downloads and in the Catalog, each of which can be switched off; one on a page (to begin with), up to two or three, or one on every shelf; at the right end of the shelf, the left end, or scattered (right, then left, then right). Seventeen photorealistic ones stand all year (Poly Haven's CC0 objects: potted plants, a stone cat, a marble bust, a porcelain horse, clocks, vases, a storm lantern, a candlestick, a model ship, binoculars, a seashell, a jug; and a tabby cat). Two seasonal ones join them in their season: a Christmas tree (20 November to 6 January) and a pumpkin (mid-September to November). All are dithered to the screen's 16 greys, so their shading is smooth. Which ornaments (in the same menu) ticks each one on or off; ticking a seasonal one keeps it all year. Your own: PNG or SVG pictures in koreader/settings/gzreader/ornaments.
  • Settings → General → Screen refresh holds every setting about when the screen flashes clean: Flash on every page turn and Flash on every CBZ page turn (they were in Reader → Appearance), Flash when the screen changes (the Kindle 2, 3, DX and 4; it was in General → Advanced) and Partial pages refresh (also from Advanced). They work as before and keep what you had set.
  • Settings → General → Audio (the Kindle 2, 3, DX and Touch) holds Read aloud, Test audiobook playback, Pause when headphones are unplugged and Find the headphone jack. They were at the end of Settings → Reader, but they're for music and audiobooks too. They work as before and keep what you had set.
  • Settings → Downloads → Books → Double-tap to open a book (and Single tap to open context menu under it) shows only on the touch Kindles. The Kindle 2, 3, DX and 4 open books with keys or the 5-way, so it did nothing there.
  • Settings → Reader has six rows instead of nine: Gestures and controls holds Bottom swipe gesture, Reader controls and Page Browser, and Notes and footnotes holds Annotation viewer and Footnotes and pinned pages. The Settings buttons in the page browser, the annotation viewer and the footnotes drawer still open their page.
  • Settings → KOReader leaves out what GZreader already has in its own place: Language, Time and date, Sleep screen, Autosuspend timeout and Wi-Fi connection (Settings → General), History, Favorites and Collections (they're tabs), End of document action (Reader → End of book), Night mode, Rotation and the Exit menu with Restart and Sleep (quick panel tiles), Version, About and KOReader's Quickstart guide (Settings → About), and Cloud storage. Nothing else changes: End of book keeps its End of document action.

Changes since v1.28.2.

Download

Already on GZreader: Settings → Updates (Kindles without Wi‑Fi: the sync page). To install: https://github.com/9retirement6irk/GZreader/wiki/Installing

  • gzreader-kindle-legacy-1.28.3.zip: Kindle 2, DX, Kindle Keyboard
  • gzreader-kindle-1.28.3.zip: Kindle 4, Kindle Touch
  • gzreader-kindlepw2-1.28.3.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.6.1 – 5.16.2
  • gzreader-kindlehf-1.28.3.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.16.3 and later
  • gzreader-nook-1st-edition-1.28.3.zip: Nook 1st Edition (test build)
  • gzreader-nook-1.28.3.zip: Nook Simple Touch (test build)

v1.28.2

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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 11 Nov 23:23
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  • While the Kindle charges and Home is on screen, GZreader lays out downloaded books you haven't opened yet in the background (Settings → Reader → Lay out new books while charging, on by default), so the first time you open one it opens like a book you've read before instead of taking 10–30 seconds on a Kindle 3. It waits while books download or other background work runs, and for a new book's picture-book check (a picture book is laid out the way it will be fitted), stops as soon as you unplug, open a book or start a download, and the books don't show as opened. Not on the Kindle 2 and DX (not enough memory).

Changes since v1.28.1.

Download

Already on GZreader: Settings → Updates (Kindles without Wi‑Fi: the sync page). To install: https://github.com/9retirement6irk/GZreader/wiki/Installing

  • gzreader-kindle-legacy-1.28.2.zip: Kindle 2, DX, Kindle Keyboard
  • gzreader-kindle-1.28.2.zip: Kindle 4, Kindle Touch
  • gzreader-kindlepw2-1.28.2.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.6.1 – 5.16.2
  • gzreader-kindlehf-1.28.2.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.16.3 and later
  • gzreader-nook-1st-edition-1.28.2.zip: Nook 1st Edition (test build)
  • gzreader-nook-1.28.2.zip: Nook Simple Touch (test build)

v1.28.1

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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 11 Nov 00:45
  • Catalog → Books: the little cover on the Shelves card (and a shelf's name there) no longer breaks a word in two, as "Shelve / s" on the Paperwhite 3: its label gets smaller until every word fits.
  • The Catalog tab opens even when you aren't signed in to Grimmory: the Music page, and audiobooks from Plex, work as usual, and the Books page (and the Audiobooks page, for Grimmory's audiobooks) has empty shelves and says "Sign in to Grimmory to browse the catalog"; tap it for the ways to sign in, and the page fills in once you are. The Books and Audiobooks pages' bottom-right compartment is now a Grimmory card filling it (who you're signed in as, and where; it opens Rebuild library and reconnecting); the Music page's Plex card fills its compartment there too, and with audiobooks from Plex the Audiobooks page has the Plex card instead. The On this Kindle cards are gone from the Books, Audiobooks and Music pages: what's on the Kindle is in the Downloads tab. Also fixed: in the Bookshelf view, tapping the Audiobooks and Music pages' search slip did nothing, and back from a change in the Plex card's list showed an empty list.
  • On the Kindles with a keyboard, pressing Sym in a text box (search, Wi-Fi password, server address, notes...) opens a small menu of symbols, as the Kindle's own software does, instead of the whole on-screen keyboard: the 5-way picks a symbol and pressing it types it; the menu stays up for more symbols (letters can be typed too) until you press Sym again (or Back). It opens on the symbol you used last. Shift + Home still shows the whole on-screen keyboard, and Sym + a letter still types its symbol.
  • Settings → General → Sleep → Wallpaper → Book cover while reading, a picture elsewhere showed whatever sleep screen had been saved before instead: a picture while reading, or (after choosing Book cover once and then this tile again) the book's cover at Home too. It now shows the open book's cover while reading and a picture from the screensavers folder from Home and menus, whatever was chosen before it.
  • Wi-Fi now has three modes instead of a Wi-Fi switch plus a separate "Wi-Fi only when needed" setting. On: Wi-Fi stays on (GZreader turns it back on if it went off by itself). Off: it stays off and syncing waits; things you ask for still turn it on for a minute. Auto (the default, what "Wi-Fi only when needed" did): on when something needs it, off after a minute unused. The quick panel's Wi-Fi tile goes on → off → auto; Settings → General → Wi-Fi offers the same three, with Networks under them. On Auto the status bar's Wi-Fi icon has an A after it and still shows whether Wi-Fi is on right now; the tile's icon does the same. Turning Wi-Fi on or off anywhere else chooses On or Off. Your earlier settings carry over.
  • Usage statistics now report how long you spend in books, on the Catalog's Books, Audiobooks and Music pages, in the Audiobooks and Music tabs, in Notes and in Calendar, and how long read aloud, audiobooks and music play, each with GZreader's version, the Kindle model and firmware. Basic and Full send the same statistics; Full also sends the debug reports. No more events for each menu entry chosen or for each start (how the previous run ended is in the debug reports). Still no titles, file names or account.
  • GZreader's menus look like ZenOS's Settings: the Calendar and Notes tabs' connect lists, Plex's sign-in and the Music list, Downloads, the sync queue, copying from another GZreader, the Notes filters, the font list and Add to shelf now have an icon on the left of each row, an arrow on the right of each row that does something and ZenOS's spacing. Labels are shorter so none is cut off at the edge of the screen; the longer explanations moved behind an About row (About calendar links, About Memos, About Plex music). Downloads shows each title with where it's at on the right (38% of 77.0 MB, waiting), and copying from another GZreader has a switch per connection.
  • The Catalog's pages go round: turning back from Books (a swipe right, the page-back button, or ‹ Music on the strip) goes to Music, and turning on from Music goes to Books. The strip under the title now always shows a page on each side.
  • When the daily update check (or a check from Settings → General → Updates) has found a newer version, the quick panel's Updates tile reads "Update available" and is drawn white on black, also after a restart. Nothing is downloaded to draw it; tap it to see the update and install it, as before.

Changes since v1.28.0.

Download

Already on GZreader: Settings → Updates (Kindles without Wi‑Fi: the sync page). To install: https://github.com/9retirement6irk/GZreader/wiki/Installing

  • gzreader-kindle-legacy-1.28.1.zip: Kindle 2, DX, Kindle Keyboard
  • gzreader-kindle-1.28.1.zip: Kindle 4, Kindle Touch
  • gzreader-kindlepw2-1.28.1.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.6.1 – 5.16.2
  • gzreader-kindlehf-1.28.1.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.16.3 and later
  • gzreader-nook-1st-edition-1.28.1.zip: Nook 1st Edition (test build)
  • gzreader-nook-1.28.1.zip: Nook Simple Touch (test build)

v1.28.0

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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 10 Nov 04:12
  • GZreader's diagnostic log writes ordinary lines a few at a time (at most 5 seconds late; warnings, errors, sleep, exit and saving or sending the log write at once) instead of opening the file for every line. With Full usage statistics, the 15-second heartbeat goes to /tmp (memory) instead of the Kindle's storage, which is now written only when GZreader starts, sleeps, wakes or exits and every 10 minutes: about 150 writes a day instead of 5,760.
  • Settings → General → Sleep → Wallpaper shows each sleep screen as a tile with a preview of what it shows (GZreader's own, the last book's cover, a picture from the screensavers folder, reading progress, book status, the screen as it is): tap one, or press its letter on a Kindle with keys. The cover's fill and fit, when to ignore a cover and the wake-up delay are in Wallpaper options. Sleep no longer has Presets, and there is no custom image to choose.
  • Every entry in Settings has an icon, also the choices inside submenus and KOReader's own menus, which showed an empty space.
  • Settings → General now has Time and date (with Time zone first), Language and Storage. Storage is a menu like the others: free space, then books, audiobooks, music, notes, the calendar and covers, each with its size, an icon and an arrow into the biggest of each. The Storage section at the top of Settings is gone.
  • Settings → Downloads now has the same icon as the Downloads tab on Home.
  • Settings → About → Report a bug asks what happened and sends it with the diagnostic log to GZreader's developer (as Send to the developer does). It used to be ZenOS's reporter, which filed the report and crash.log as an issue for the ZenOS project.
  • Settings → About starts with GZreader's version, then "Built on ZenOS … and KOReader …".
  • Diagnostic logging, Send diagnostic log to the developer, Send diagnostic log to a browser and Save diagnostic log moved from Settings → General to the top of General → Advanced. Usage statistics stays in General.
  • Settings → General → Advanced no longer has Debug logging (KOReader's verbose log; turned off once if it was on), Clear all gestures (nothing in GZreader reads the gestures it set), Plugin management or Patch management (turning off GZreader's own plugins broke it). The KOReader section leaves out its File browser menu (sorting and filtering are in the Downloads tab's own menus; its other settings repeat Downloads'), Tools → Reading statistics (the statistics themselves stay: time left, book details, the end-of-book page), Plugin management, Patch management, Developer options, the file browser's Display mode and Start with, the Wi-Fi actions and Restore Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi only when needed does this), its second copy of the Grimmory menu, and in Help, KOReader's Report a bug and Disable external plugins (which turned GZreader itself off).
  • Settings → Interface → Navbar no longer offers the Manga, News and Calibre Search tabs, whose apps (Rakuyomi, QuickRSS, calibre) aren't part of GZreader, and the bar leaves them out if they were on.
  • The Downloads screen kept its percentages current by redrawing the whole screen every 5 seconds, and went back to its first page each time. Now only the lines that changed are refreshed, on the page you're on, and nothing at all when nothing changed; the whole list is redrawn only when a download finishes or one is added.
  • The Grimmory tab's lists open from what's saved on the Kindle, so with Wi-Fi only when needed Wi-Fi was often off when you opened a book's page: its description and cover didn't come, and Download failed at once ("temporary failure in name resolution"). Both now turn Wi-Fi on first, like the rest of the Grimmory tab.
  • Downloads, on the bookshelf: the Audiobooks walkman now has its headphones sitting on it (the band over its top, a pad resting on each side), as the Music CD player does, instead of standing beside it.
  • While a book downloaded, it took the Kindle's Wi-Fi and processor, so the Grimmory tab's descriptions and covers took 10 to 40 seconds or didn't come at all. Now the download waits while the tab (or anything else) asks Grimmory for something, 20 seconds at most each time, and carries on as soon as that's answered.
  • Settings → General → Sleep → Wallpaper options → Border fill, rotation, and fit → Scale cover to fill screen scales the book cover (or sleep picture) up until it covers the whole screen, keeping its proportions: no bars at the edges, and the parts that don't fit are cut off. It replaces Stretch cover to fit screen while it's on, which pulls the cover out of shape.
  • Loads the list of your books from Grimmory again and forgets the saved lists, so books removed from Grimmory disappear from the Kindle's lists (and their missing covers stop being asked for) and new ones show. Until now that was only Refresh list from Grimmory, inside Authors or Series.
  • On the Kindles without REAGL, GZreader flashes the screen when most of it changes, to clear the grey traces. It did that also for changes nobody asked for: a book finishing its download flashed the whole Downloads tab. Now only what follows a key or a tap (in the last 10 seconds) flashes. The download status in the status bar is updated every 3 seconds instead of 10 (only that item is refreshed).
  • In the bookshelf view, a page of Downloads held as many books as the widest spines would fit, so shelves of narrower books ended with room for two or three more. Now each page takes as many as its books' spines leave room for. On Kindles with a keyboard the letter keys go from Q to L: the books after L have none (the 5-way reaches them) and Del is no longer a book's key.
  • Music's CD player on the top shelf (bookshelf view) was drawn tilted towards you, so it seemed to float above the board next to the standing walkman. It now lies flat on the shelf, seen from the front, with its headphones resting on it.
  • Music's Now playing: the CD in the player now fills the lid's window, with the album's cover printed over the whole disc (a thin silver rim and the clear ring round the hole left), instead of a small round cover in the middle of a bare disc. A cover that isn't square fills the disc too (its sides are cut off rather than leaving grey bands).
  • Audiobooks can come from a library on your Plex server instead of Grimmory: Settings → Connections → Plex → Audiobooks (or Plex in the Music tab) lists Grimmory and the server's music libraries. With a Plex library picked, the Catalog's Audiobooks page shows it (search, Continue listening, Recently added, All audiobooks, Authors, On this Kindle), with Plex's covers. A Plex audiobook downloads and plays like Grimmory's (an album is a book, its tracks its files or chapters); its place goes to Plex and comes back from any Plex player. The sync page lists the same library for Kindles that sync through a computer, and can switch between Grimmory and Plex there.
  • A Plex server with more than one music library: pick the one GZreader uses in Settings → Connections → Plex → Music library (or Plex in the Music tab). Artists, Albums, Recently added and Recently played come from it, and with several music libraries Playlists and Search keep to it too. Until you pick one it's the server's first, as before; the choice is kept per server, and the sync page lists the same library's albums.
  • The Catalog's Music page is laid out like the Books page: Search music at the top, Recently played (this Kindle's, then Plex's) and Recently added shelves, then Playlists, Albums and Artists (with On this Kindle, Now playing and your Plex account when there's something to show). In the Bookshelf view albums and playlists stand on the shelves as CD cases with their covers from Plex, marked ON KINDLE when they're downloaded, with the title, artist and year under each.
  • The Catalog's Audiobooks page is laid out like the Books page: Search audiobooks at the top (titles, authors and series, audiobooks only), Continue listening (what you've listened to on the Kindle, then what Grimmory has in progress) and Recently added shelves with covers, then a bookcase with All audiobooks, Authors, Shelves, Series and On this Kindle. Authors and Series list only those with audiobooks, with how many; Shelves leaves out your shelves with no audiobook on them. An author's, series' or shelf's list has its own search.
  • The quick panel's Music tile is there only while music plays or is paused (it opens Now playing), and the Audiobook tile only while an audiobook plays or is paused (it opens its player), now in a book too. Browsing and downloading music and audiobooks is the Catalog tab's; what's on the Kindle is in Downloads.
  • A new Audiobooks tab (off until you turn it on in Settings → Interface → Navbar → Tabs, or in the setup guide's tab page; Kindles with a speaker or headphone jack) opens the Catalog's Audiobooks page on its own, with that tab underlined. The Music tab stays as it was.
  • The Books page's last compartment and list, Downloaded books, is now called On this Kindle (On this Nook on a Nook), as on the Audiobooks and Music pages; its card counts the books there ("none yet" when there are none).
  • The Grimmory tab is renamed Catalog and has pages: Books (as before), Audiobooks (Grimmory's audiobooks) and Music (Plex), on Kindles with a speaker or headphone jack. Swipe left or right, tap the next page's name under the title, or use the page-turn buttons; the title says which page you're on, and dots under it show where you are and what's next. The tab always opens on Books. On the Books page the bookcase's last compartment is now Downloaded books on every Kindle (Audiobooks have their own page). A tab you had renamed keeps its name.
  • Updated to ZenOS 4.3.1. Settings → Reader → Highlight / Lookup → Highlight has "Invert colors in night mode" (KOReader's own inversion instead of keeping a highlight's day colour) and "Show other items": other KOReader and plugin highlight options behind a More button in the highlight menu (Highlight / Loo...
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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 09 Nov 01:23
  • Most of GZreader's saves (a reading position queued, something sent) changed only a few small things, but rewrote its whole settings file, download list and audiobooks included: about a quarter of a second of a Kindle 3's time per save with 500 books. Those saves now write only the small part, to a small file of its own; the whole file is written when a download or the sign-in changes, when the Kindle goes to sleep, on exit and at least every hour, so it stays complete for an older GZreader.
  • Kindle 2 and DX (no Wi-Fi): Diagnostics → Send to the developer asks what happened, as on a Wi-Fi Kindle, and saves the log with it; the sync page sends it to the developer at your next sync. The page's Sync tab also has a Diagnostics box to send the Kindle's log with a note of your own. With diagnostic logging on, pressing Sync on the Kindle first exports a fresh log for it.
  • GZreader now reads and writes its data (Grimmory's lists, the library index, the library copy on Kindles without Wi-Fi, the outbox, background results, saved lists) with KOReader's built-in C library for JSON instead of its Lua one, which was 5 to 10 times slower on a library's worth of books. Nothing changes in what's stored or sent.
  • Bookmark sync took every bookmark Grimmory sent for an audiobook bookmark (Grimmory marks the audio time as empty, and GZreader read empty as set): opening a book again removed the bookmarks already synced from the Kindle and brought none in, not even ones added in the web reader. Now they're all kept on both sides; the ones that went missing come back from Grimmory the next time the book opens. A bookmark deleted from the bookmark list is now deleted in Grimmory too.
  • Grimmory's web reader doesn't show a highlight's note, only the notes in its Notes tab, so notes made on the Kindle seemed not to sync. Each note is now also kept there (at its highlight, with the words and colour), and notes made, changed or deleted in the web reader come to the Kindle. An edited note is sent when the book closes.
  • Settings → Interface → Quick panel lists the tiles of the quick panel's Controls, Home and This book groups: untick a tile to take it off the panel, or Show every tile to bring them all back. Home, Settings and Exit to Kindle always stay. It replaces Interface's Controls and Launcher, which set up ZenOS's touch menu (the quick panel took its place); Blur menu background is still in Interface.
  • In a book, the quick panel's Layout tile (font size, margins, spacing) did nothing on touch Kindles such as the Paperwhite: Zen mode blocked it. It opens the layout menu again.
  • Zen mode (ZenOS's own tabs only) is always on: its switch is gone from Settings → Interface, and it's turned back on if it was off.
  • While music, an audiobook or read aloud plays, the check for unplugged headphones reads the Kindle's audio service in GZreader itself (KOReader's lipc library) instead of starting lipc-get-prop every second; where that library can't be used, it starts it every 4 seconds instead of every second. Less CPU and battery while listening.
  • GZreader no longer loads ZenOS's own updater at every start (about 1,900 lines that GZreader's updater replaces), nor ZenOS's integration for the Rakuyomi manga plugin, which GZreader doesn't ship. GZreader's updater itself is loaded when it's first needed. Less to load and less memory used from the start, most noticeable on the Kindle 2, DX and Keyboard.
  • Requests GZreader makes in the background (a book's sync, the library index, automatic shelves) now keep their connection to the server open between requests instead of opening a new secure connection for each, which on a Kindle 3 was most of the time a request took. Indexing a 2,000-book library goes from 40 secure connections to one. A connection the server closed meanwhile is opened again.
  • When a Grimmory book opens, its place, queued updates, bookmarks and highlights are now synced together a moment after the first page, in one background process, instead of four started at 1, 2, 4 and 6 seconds. On a Kindle 3 each one was a copy of GZreader and a secure connection: seconds of processor time while you turned the first pages. Sync now and syncing after Wi-Fi comes on work the same way.
  • Syncing, downloads, the library index, update checks and usage statistics now run their background processes at a lower priority than the screen. Each request's secure connection takes seconds of processor time on a Kindle 3, and opening a book starts several; page turns no longer wait for them.
  • On the Kindles without REAGL, the clock and battery at the top of a book are updated when you turn a page instead of with a refresh of their own every minute while nobody's reading (the clock shows the time of the last page turn). GZreader's own timers (usage statistics, the remote-debugging heartbeat, the Wi-Fi idle check) now fire together on the quarter minutes, so the Kindle wakes less often, and the Kindle 2, 3 and DX pack the screen four pixels at a time (about a third less time per refresh).
  • Experimental, off by default (Settings → Connections → Grimmory → Keep connections open): while Wi-Fi is on, a small separate process keeps the connections to Grimmory (and your other servers) open between GZreader's background requests, so browsing the Grimmory tab doesn't open a new secure connection for every page. If it isn't running or doesn't answer, requests go directly as before.
  • The diagnostic log has a line for each start, like the one for each book opened: how long until Home (or a book) was on the screen, the processor time, when GZreader's own part started and how long it took, modules loaded, memory used and free. Send the log after a few starts to show where a slow start goes.
  • Opening a book: the reading statistics' lookups (the book's record and its reading time so far, slower the more you've read it) now run just after the first page is on the screen instead of before it. The time-left estimate uses the totals saved with the book until then.
  • Touch Kindles with a frontlight: opening the quick panel in a book by swiping down from the top changed the light to wherever the finger crossed the light slider. The slider now only moves when you tap it or put your finger down on it and drag.
  • The reader's top status bar (Settings → Reader → Appearance → Top status bar: the clock, by default) no longer disappears while the layout menu (the quick panel's Layout tile) is open or after it closes. It was drawn only while nothing else was open over the book, so it stayed missing until the next page turn or the next minute.
  • In the Bookshelf view covers have square corners: Settings → Downloads → Appearance → Covers → Rounded cover corners is off and greyed out there. Your choice for the other views (Tiles, the lists) is kept and comes back when you pick one of them in the quick panel's View.
  • Settings: the Library section is now called Downloads, like the tab it sets up (Appearance, Folders, Books, Context menu: unchanged inside).
  • Settings → Downloads → Books no longer has a Metadata menu (ZenOS's online sources, Hardcover and Google Books keys, match selection, EPUB backup): your downloads' title, authors and series come from Grimmory. Saved values still apply to ZenOS's Edit metadata (a book's Edit menu outside Downloads), which looks books up on Open Library (and on Hardcover or Google Books only if a key was saved before).
  • Send to a browser (and the setup page's Diagnostics tab) left a copy of the log (about 700 KB) next to the GZreader folder every time. The log is now built in the cache and deleted once it's sent, as Send to the developer already did. Save to the Kindle keeps only the newest three saved logs there; older ones (also the ones earlier versions left) are deleted.
  • Diagnostics (Send to the developer, Send to a browser, Save to the Kindle) put the log together in a second or two instead of about 25 seconds on a Kindle 3. Most of that time went on a survey of the Kindle's audio and speech system, whose answers only change with the Kindle's firmware: they are now kept after the first time and reused, also across GZreader updates. The log also notes how long it took.
  • Highlights made in Grimmory's web reader are yellow by default, which on a Kindle's grey screen came out almost white. On a greyscale Kindle a highlight colour too light to see is now drawn like the Kindle's own grey highlight (darker colours and underlines are unchanged). The other way, the Kindle's grey highlights were a dark smudge in the web reader: new ones now go to Grimmory as the web reader's yellow. Highlights already in Grimmory keep their colour there; change one in the web reader to yellow if you want it to match.
  • Authors and Series open from the list saved on the Kindle, without Wi-Fi, so with Wi-Fi only when needed it was often off again by the time you chose Refresh list from Grimmory, which then said it couldn't reach the server. Refresh now turns Wi-Fi on first, like the rest of the Grimmory tab. (The diagnostic log also now says why Check for updates turned Wi-Fi on, instead of a question mark.)
  • The short bar in an event's row (its calendar's shade) started halfway down the title and hung below it. It's now centred on the event, as it was meant to be.
  • When you open a book, GZreader's background work now waits: a sync that's already running (the calendar, Notes, Grimmory) is paused until the first page is up, and nothing new starts before then (30 s at most). On a Kindle 3 a calendar sync running at the same time made a book take 23.5 s to open instead of 6.
  • The icons on notes (pinned, place, file, picture, tag) and the Calendar's come from ZenOS's icon font, which GZreader asked for by the wrong path: it was never found (an error in the log at every size), and the pin, file, picture and tag icons were missing. It's found now.
  • Find the headphone jack (Settings → Reader) found nothing on a Kindle 3: it shows headphones in none of the plac...
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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 08 Nov 18:28
  • Manage book (the quick panel's Manage tile, or holding a book at Home) no longer shows ZenOS's Edit submenu: its Delete is already at the top as Delete from this Kindle.
  • Holding a book in the Downloads tab opens Manage book (Open, Delete from this Kindle, then the book's menu), as holding a book on Home does. Other folders keep the book's own menu.
  • With diagnostic logging off (Settings → General), GZreader no longer times each book as it opens (the "book open:" line in the log, which was then thrown away), so opening a book does no work for the log at all.
  • Home shows the status bar across the top, like the other tabs, when there's no recently read book to show (a new Kindle, or after clearing your reading history): it used to have none, because Home's status bar sits beside the book you're reading. Once you open a book, it moves back beside it.
  • The book menu's Add to collection is now Add to shelf, also for several selected books: it lists your own Grimmory shelves (not smart shelves, not other people's) and puts the book on the one you pick. A book on one or more of your shelves also has Remove from shelf (or Remove from shelves: one of them, or all). Your shelves and the books on them are kept on the Kindle, so this works without a network: with Wi-Fi a change goes to Grimmory straight away (or when Wi-Fi connects), and on the Kindle 2 and DX the sync page sends it at the next sync. Changes made in Grimmory come to the Kindle when Wi-Fi connects, when a book opens, or with the sync page's library copy. Not signed in, Add to shelf says to sign in to Grimmory first.
  • Settings → Library → Folders no longer has a Home folder menu (Lock home folder, Additional home folders), KOReader's menu no longer has Home folder settings (Set, Shorten, Lock home folder), and holding a folder or the + menu in KOReader's file manager no longer offers Set as HOME folder. GZreader relies on the home folder being the GZreader folder, where downloads and books sent from your browser go, and set it back at every start anyway, so these did nothing lasting.
  • The Local reading stats widget (pages and time today, this Kindle only) is no longer on Home or in Settings → Home → Widgets; Grimmory's reading stats are the ones on Home. If your Home still showed it, it goes and your other widgets stay where they were.
  • Settings no longer has an Extras section. Its Schedules and Sleep were already in General and Custom icons in Interface, and they stay there. The rest (Stats tab widgets, ZenPM, Rakuyomi, Zen Search, Lockdown mode, Zen Keyboard) is no longer offered: GZreader doesn't use them or works best with their defaults. Anything you had changed there keeps your choice.
  • A search in the Grimmory tab that finds nothing now says "No books found containing “…”" with what you searched for. In the Bookshelf view it's the same shelves a search's books stand on, empty, with cobwebs on them and the message on a card; Search again… stays at the top.
  • The Downloads tab names itself in the title bar (between the clock and the battery), as History, Collections, Grimmory and the other tabs do; a tab you renamed in Settings → Interface → Navbar shows that name. Inside a folder the title is still the folder's name.

Changes since v1.26.9.

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Already on GZreader: Settings → Updates (Kindles without Wi‑Fi: the sync page). To install: https://github.com/9retirement6irk/GZreader/wiki/Installing

  • gzreader-kindle-legacy-1.26.10.zip: Kindle 2, DX, Kindle Keyboard
  • gzreader-kindle-1.26.10.zip: Kindle 4, Kindle Touch
  • gzreader-kindlepw2-1.26.10.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.6.1 – 5.16.2
  • gzreader-kindlehf-1.26.10.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.16.3 and later
  • gzreader-nook-1st-edition-1.26.10.zip: Nook 1st Edition (test build)
  • gzreader-nook-1.26.10.zip: Nook Simple Touch (test build)

v1.26.9

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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 08 Nov 07:15
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  • Diagnostics → Send to the developer (quick panel, or Settings → General) first asks what you were doing and what went wrong; what you type goes with the diagnostic log, at the top, so the developer knows what to look for. Leaving it empty still sends the log. Reports from releases and test builds now go to the same place.

Changes since v1.26.8.

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Already on GZreader: Settings → Updates (Kindles without Wi‑Fi: the sync page). To install: https://github.com/9retirement6irk/GZreader/wiki/Installing

  • gzreader-kindle-legacy-1.26.9.zip: Kindle 2, DX, Kindle Keyboard
  • gzreader-kindle-1.26.9.zip: Kindle 4, Kindle Touch
  • gzreader-kindlepw2-1.26.9.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.6.1 – 5.16.2
  • gzreader-kindlehf-1.26.9.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.16.3 and later
  • gzreader-nook-1st-edition-1.26.9.zip: Nook 1st Edition (test build)
  • gzreader-nook-1.26.9.zip: Nook Simple Touch (test build)

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@9retirement6irk 9retirement6irk released this 08 Nov 04:31
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  • Updated to ZenOS 4.3.0 (was 4.2.0): quicker (its parts load when they're first used); on touch Kindles, new reading controls (a page browser, a viewer for highlights, notes and pinned pages); better reading themes; coloured underlines and strikethrough; a new end-of-book screen. ZenOS sets the top and bottom page margins to its default (15) once, if you use its reading preset. GZreader's own changes to ZenOS are kept: letter keys in menus, the tab keys, the bookshelf, Grimmory's stats, text sizes as before.
  • After every update, GZreader shows its version and a short list of what changed (the full text stays in Settings → Updates → Changelog). With ZenOS 4.3 that screen showed ZenOS's version and ZenOS's own list, and only when ZenOS itself changed.
  • Touch Kindles: the first-time tour after the setup guide now shows GZreader's quick panel (how to open and close it, Settings, the Home or This book tiles) instead of pointing at ZenOS's menu, which GZreader replaces. It closes the panel when it ends, so the page browser tip on the first book is no longer hidden under it.
  • Flash on every page turn is its own setting now: Settings → Reader → Appearance. On by default on the Kindle 2, DX, 3 and 4 (no grey trace of the last pages, as before), off elsewhere, and it can be turned on on any device. It used to go with Settings → Advanced → Flash when the screen changes, which is now only for menus, tabs and opening a book (if you had turned that off, page turns stay as they were). Ticking or unticking it replaces a full refresh rate chosen in a book's menu.
  • Diagnostics (quick panel, Home and Reading menus, and Settings → General) has Send to the developer: GZreader's diagnostic log goes straight to the developer over Wi‑Fi (no QR code or USB cable). Passwords and tokens are never in the log. Test builds send to a separate feed.
  • Usage statistics set to Full now also send debug reports to the developer: GZreader's starts, warnings and errors from its log, freezes and crashes (what Remote debugging sent to a feed you set yourself). Settings → General → Remote debugging is gone, and a feed set there before is forgotten. Basic and Off send no debug reports.
  • Nook 1st Edition and Simple Touch: most of GZreader moves to the microSD card (or, without one, the Nook's own storage), leaving the Nook's small app disk, shared with Android, with room to spare. Its Lua code, fonts, hyphenation, translations and cache (about 55 MB) are moved at the first start (a minute or two) and mounted back into its folder while it runs; its programs, libraries and settings stay on the Nook (about 30 MB). Leave the card in: without it GZreader asks for it. Updates write each part where it lives.

Changes since v1.26.7.

Download

Already on GZreader: Settings → Updates (Kindles without Wi‑Fi: the sync page). To install, see GZREADER.md:

  • gzreader-kindle-legacy-1.26.8.zip: Kindle 2, DX, Kindle Keyboard
  • gzreader-kindle-1.26.8.zip: Kindle 4, Kindle Touch
  • gzreader-kindlepw2-1.26.8.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.6.1 – 5.16.2
  • gzreader-kindlehf-1.26.8.zip: touch Kindles on firmware 5.16.3 and later
  • gzreader-nook-1st-edition-1.26.8.zip: Nook 1st Edition (test build)
  • gzreader-nook-1.26.8.zip: Nook Simple Touch (test build)