🏠 Home experience
- ✨ Home carousel is faster and smoother
- Cached cover-frame hashes and simplified cover thumbnail lookup
- Less repeated work when switching between recent books
📖 Reader improvements
- ⚡ Faster first reader open
- Reading stats now load after the reader screen is visible
- Smoother startup feel without waiting for stats parsing
- 🛡️ More stable reading sessions
- Better memory handling when opening/closing books
- Safer behavior on devices with limited RAM
🌙 Screensaver & background behavior
- 💤 Smoother screen saver transitions
- PNG decoder resets automatically on decode issues
- More reliable overlay behavior
🐛 Bug fixes
- 🗂️ Reading progress stays correct
- Fixes cases where book cache changes could affect saved progress
- ⏱️ More reliable stats tracking
- Reading time and session data are preserved better across app use
🔗 References
⚠️ Note
Some reader stats and memory optimizations were evaluated and later reverted to preserve stable session behavior. The current release keeps the safer, more reliable path for everyday reading.