v1.12.0

v1.12.0

Read along

• New - Read along: the narration is highlighted in the ebook as the audiobook plays, word by word or a sentence at a time, and the pages turn themselves. Turn pages freely and tap Back to narration to return
• New - Live transcript on the card for podcasts and books without an ebook, on streamed books too

Ebook reader

• New - Scroll mode, left-aligned text, and an option to keep the title bar on screen
• New - Picture-only ebooks open in the comic reader, which now has bookmarks
• New - The reader's player opens chapters, sleep timer, bookmarks, equalizer, cast and more
• Improved - Ebooks you've opened stay on the phone for offline reading, even after the audio download is deleted
• Fix - Books open where you left off after reading on the web or in another app

BookOrbit

• New - Sign in to BookOrbit servers, including SSO and magic links
• New - Smart Scopes, Book Dock, matching across every source, and book requests
• New - Filter the library by reading status

Playback

• New - Speed up to 5x, and on Android the loudness boost really raises the volume
• New - Choose what the notification, lock screen, Android Auto and CarPlay show on each line
• New - Keep the screen on in the player and car mode
• Fix - Streaming no longer gets stuck buffering, starting a download no longer cuts out the stream, and chapter jumps no longer restart the book
• Fix - Play picks up the newer spot from another device, and progress that fails to send is kept and sent later

Queue and series

• New - Adding to Absorbing asks whether it plays next or goes to the end
• New - The series sheet opens on the covers around your next book, with series stats and an up next button
• Fix - The series queue plays the actual next book and works past book 100

Car

• New - Car settings with sort options, and Collections and Playlists in the car library
• Fix - Android Auto no longer restarts the book when you switch to the radio

Downloads

• New - Download several books at once, play straight from Downloads even offline, and play downloads from the sign-in screen if you get signed out
• Fix - A failed download says why

Library

• New - New Collection and New Playlist buttons in the Lists tab, and search across bookmarks and highlights
• New - Sort series by total duration or last book added, and upload files into an existing book
• New - Find the start in the chapter editor listens around a marker for where the chapter really begins

Sign-in

• Improved - SSO sign-in returns to absorb://oauth. Server admins need to allow it under Settings, Authentication, Mobile redirect URIs (#417)

Other

• New - A release notes link after an update, and a button background setting for the player card
• Fix - Book details use each library's cover shape and show every genre and tag, and authors without a photo no longer trip fail2ban (#418)
• Fix - Settings sync no longer wakes the phone every 45 seconds in the background (#409)