Release Readwide v1.0.9 · k1717/Readwide

Android metadata is versionCode 10009 and versionName "1.0.9". It keeps the com.readwide.manager applicationId and the readwide release signing key, so 1.0.9 updates in place over 1.0.8, 1.0.7, and 1.0.6.
This release adds in-document text find to the PDF reader for digital (text-based) PDFs, speeds up image page-flipping inside large archives, and reworks the recent-files list: it now searches your reading history (with a result banner), keeps your full history and shows up to 5000 entries, combines with the file-type filters, and supports swipe-to-remove. It also matches the archive preview's row styling to the main file list. It adds one new runtime dependency, PdfBox-Android (Apache-2.0), used only for PDF text extraction; the recent-list, archive-styling, and archive-image changes are internal and add no dependency.

Added a Find action to the PDF reader that searches for text inside the open PDF. Matches are highlighted on the page (the highlights track zoom and pan), previous/next step through them, and a current/total match count is shown. The find dialog matches the search dialog used by the other viewers.
Find covers the whole document, not just the current page. Previous/next move through matches across pages and jump to the page where each match is.
When you move to a match, the page shifts as needed so the current match stays visible above the find dialog instead of being hidden behind it.
This works on digital (text-based) PDFs only. Scanned or image-only PDFs have no text layer to extract, so they are not searched; OCR is intentionally not included.
PDF pages continue to be rendered by the platform PdfRenderer. The new dependency is used only to read the text and its on-page positions, not to render pages, so rendering, zoom, pan, and the single-page/continuous modes are unchanged.

Paging to the next or previous image inside an archive (a ZIP/CBZ comic) is faster, especially on the first pass through a large archive such as a comic with around two thousand images. The reader now caches each archive's parsed entry index, so showing each image is a direct lookup instead of re-reading the whole archive directory every time. This applies to both unencrypted and password-protected archives; for an encrypted archive the password is used only during extraction and is not retained.

The search box on the home screen now searches your recently-read files (your reading history) as you type, instead of walking device storage. Matches come from your full history, and a banner under the Recently Read header shows the query and how many recent files match. Searching while browsing a folder still searches storage as before.
The recent list keeps your entire reading history and shows up to 5000 entries (previously a few hundred), so older reads stay listed and remain reachable through search.
The file-type filter chips (All, General, TXT, Archive, PDF, EPUB, Word, Image) now combine with the recent search: the chip narrows the list first, then the search runs within the filtered set. Changing the chip while searching re-applies the search on top of the new filter.
Swipe a recent row to the left to remove it from the list. The card follows your finger and is removed once dragged past about 45% of its width; a shorter swipe slides back without removing. Removing a row also clears that file's saved reading position.
Back now clears an active recent search first (restoring the list and hiding the banner) before dropping any active file-type filter or leaving the home screen.

File rows inside the archive (ZIP/CBZ) preview now use the same font sizes and spacing as the main file list, so the two lists look consistent.

Added com.tom-roush:pdfbox-android:2.0.27.0 (Apache-2.0, pure Java) for PDF text extraction. A proguard/R8 rule ignores its optional, unbundled JPEG2000 (JP2) decoder; JPX images are unaffected because find only uses extracted text.

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