v2026.6.0

Released 2026-11-09. It brings podcast feeds, read aloud, the Shelf view, whole-series downloads and pages that use the whole window.

What you can do

• Pages use the whole window. The book page, Search, Downloads, the Libraries page and other lists, your listening pages and Up next no longer sit in a narrow strip with empty space around them. On a wide screen they fill the window and show more columns; reading text stays a comfortable width, and forms stay narrow. Phones look the same.

• Download a whole series or shelf in one tap. The series page and each shelf now have a "Download all" button, in the browser and in the
  app. It asks first ("Download 12 books? About 34 GB."), skips books you already have, says if they will not fit, shows "Downloading 3 of 12"
  with a Stop button, and tells you at the end how many did not download. It saves the audio; a book's text stays with its own Download.

• See your library as a shelf. The Library has a third view, Shelf, where each book stands on a plank as thick as it is long, with your place marked on it. Home's shelf now runs to the edge of the window and scrolls sideways. Home shows the same spines. Your choice of Grid, List or Shelf is remembered.

• Find your account and settings at once. Profile now opens with two buttons, Account and Settings, each with a short menu of
  everything inside. On a computer your picture and name stay at the bottom of the side menu.

• Listen in a podcast app. A book or a series with audio now has a "Podcast feed" button, for people who may download it. It makes a
  private address you paste into AntennaPod, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts or Overcast; the app then plays the original audio, chapters
  included. The address is shown once, with a QR code, and each address is listed on Your devices with the book or series it carries
  and when an app last used it, where you can turn it off. Removing someone's right to download, disabling them or a password reset
  stops their feeds too.

• Have a book read aloud. In the reader, "Read aloud" speaks the book with a voice already on your computer or phone,
  sentence by sentence, and marks the sentence being read. Play, Pause, Back one sentence and Forward one sentence sit in the
  reader's bottom bar; "Voice and speed" picks the voice and a speed from 0.8× to 2×. If you scroll away, "Back to the voice"
  takes you back. It keeps going into the next chapter and stops at the end of the book. The text never leaves your device, and
  only voices that run on the device are offered. In the Android app it uses the phone's own voices.

• Skip silence in the Android app. Settings, Playback has "Skip silence", which shortens long pauses while you listen. Your place
  and chapters stay where they were; the time it counts as listened is the time you actually spent. It works in the app only.

• Turn pages with the volume buttons in the Android app. In the reader's settings, under More, "Turn pages with the volume buttons"
  makes volume down the next page and volume up the previous one, also while a book plays. Everywhere else the buttons change the volume.

• The screen stays on while you read in the Android app, when the reader's keep-awake setting is on. As in the browser, it lets the screen sleep again after
  10 minutes without a touch, and when you leave the reader.

• Name your devices. On Your devices, each browser sign-in and each phone or desktop app has a "Name" button, so you can tell
  "Kitchen laptop" from "Work PC". An empty name on a browser goes back to the usual label; an app always keeps a name. People who
  manage accounts see the same names on the Devices tab. "Add a phone" now sits inside the devices card instead of running into it.

• Listen up to 3.5 times as fast. The speed sheet's fine slider and the usual speed in Settings now go up to 3.5×.

Upgrading

This version uses database schema 38 (it was 35 in 2026.5.0).