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NovelNotifier 1.3

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@PatchScratch PatchScratch released this 12 Oct 03:19
· 56 commits to master since this release

The headline: your library, offline, as real ePubs

  • Offline library — opt in per series from the reader's ⋮ menu. Chapters are saved into standard ePub 3 books (EPUB-2 compatible): your cover as page one, a full title page with Novel Updates metadata (associated names, type, genre, tags, author, artist, year, completely-translated, original publisher, description), and a proper table of contents. Books split per volume (— Vol N) or into 100-chapter parts when unnumbered. Export via the file picker, or share to any e-reader app.
  • Background bulk download — runs as a foreground service: lock the phone, use other apps, it keeps going. ToC-first: it resolves chapter links from the translator site's own chapter list (anchors, dropdowns, series pages) so Novel Updates sees at most one visit per host; whatever can't resolve falls back to NU links at a gentle 10-second pacing. Multi-host series, JS-rendered lists, and scrambled chapter labels are all handled.
  • Translation-group filter — per series, multi-select which groups appear in RELEASES and participate in reading order and bulk download. Hide a dead or stalled translator, keep the successor.

Reader (from 1.2.x)

  • Decodes font-substitution anti-scraping (renders English while the underlying text is exotic-codepoint gibberish), including unknown fonts cracked at runtime from the page's own glyphs — rotation-proof, Private-Use ladders, partial (vowels-only) substitution. Copy/paste from the web view yields real text too.
  • Image-slice chapters detected and routed to the web view; comments-proof chapter extraction; hidden decoy text filtered by computed styles.

Fixes

  • "Back up library" crash on devices with a theme set (v1.1–v1.2)
  • Deep links now work from cold start
  • Backup restores carry theme + notification + custom-theme settings

Full changelog: v1.2.2...v1.3