Method Reader 0.13.0

Method Reader 0.13.0

Method Reader now checks for updates on its own, and you can turn that off in the Help menu. Screepub is now Method Reader, part of the Method Production Suite, and your books come out exactly as before.

A new name, the same books

• Your settings and library move over. The first time it opens,
  Method Reader moves your settings into its own folder, and a library in
  the usual place moves to Documents, under Method Reader. A folder you
  chose yourself stays where it is. Nothing is converted again.
• A calmer window. It now looks like the other Method apps: your
  system's own font, plain buttons, and a normal title bar. The script
  itself keeps its typewriter font.
• Everything else is in the Help menu. About, keyboard shortcuts,
  What's New, the licences, and Report a Bug.

Updates take care of themselves

• Updates arrive on their own. On a Mac, two minutes after it opens
  and every six hours after that, Method Reader asks GitHub whether there is a new
  version, downloads it, and says Update ready. If you said no to
  updates before, it stays off. Change it with Check for Updates
  Automatically in the Help menu.

Good to know

• On a Mac, the app keeps the name Screepub in your Applications folder
  until the next update renames it. It opens as Method Reader either way.
• Your Mac asks once more before Method Reader can see a reader you plug
  in, or open Mail or Books for you.
• The command-line converter is now method-reader. The old name, screepub, still
  works for a while and says it has been renamed.

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Mac: download Method-Reader-macOS.dmg (notarized, for Macs with Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later), open it, drag Method Reader to Applications, and double-click. Its SHA-256 is in SHA256SUMS-app.

Command-line tool for macOS, SHA-256:

dcc2aa9f712cc0ee6f4f05c7a77add5b42591e20aa14296237ac691d9a07c811  method-reader-cli-macos-arm64.tar.gz