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Method Reader 1.1.0
Newer Kindles take your scripts over USB, and scripts that tripped Method Reader up now come through as the writer laid them out.
More from every script
- Copy to a newer Kindle over USB (beta). Kindles from late 2024 on connect the way a phone does, so until now they could only take books by email. On a Mac, plug one in and choose Copy to Kindle. Photos and Image Capture pause while it copies.
- Bring an .osf as well. A script in the Open Screenplay Format becomes a book, just as a PDF or a .fountain does.
- Method Reader's own Kindle file is no longer beta. A newer Kindle opened it with every scene in its contents.
Fixed
- Names left alone at the foot of a page in a KFX book. The printed page number pulled a name away from its lines. It now sits on the nearest description, usually a few lines on, and Go to page still works.
- A reader's name stamped across every page. A diagonal watermark broke speeches in half and cut names off from their lines. It is now left out.
- Unusual layouts. Parentheticals that wrap or sit further right, a name straight after side-by-side dialogue, and scripts typed with a word processor's margins all read correctly now.
Good to know
- Copying to a newer Kindle over USB is on the Mac for now. On Windows and Linux those Kindles still take books by email.
- A script converted before this release keeps its old reading. Convert it again to pick up the fixes.
- In the Kindle file Method Reader makes itself (AZW3), a name can still land at the foot of a page, and Method Reader says so beside the copy. KFX, or sending by email, keeps names with their lines.
Mac: download Method-Reader-macOS.dmg (notarized, for Macs with Apple silicon or Intel, macOS 13 or later), open it, drag Method Reader to Applications, and double-click.
The SHA-256 of every download is in SHA256SUMS: in a folder holding the downloads, sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing (or shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing on a Mac) checks them.