2026.07.2
Landscape reading, in two columns
Turning the tablet sideways now splits the page into two columns with a gutter between them,
instead of running one column the full width of the screen. A single column across a landscape
panel reaches roughly a hundred characters a line, well past what is comfortable to read, and the
shortened screen leaves few lines on it. Two columns put the measure back where it belongs and give
you a spread, like an open book.
- A tap turns the whole spread — both pages at once.
- The running foot names both pages,
pages 3–4 of 12. - A spread never runs across a chapter boundary, so a chapter with an odd number of pages ends with
a blank right-hand column, as a printed book does. - Rotating keeps your place: the text you were reading stays on screen, which is not the same as
staying on the same page number, since the page numbers themselves change when the text reflows. - Rotating does not reopen the book. It costs one clean refresh, not a reload.
- Lock rotation in the Aa panel pins the reader to whichever way it is currently facing, for
reading on your side. The shelf and settings screens stay upright either way.
Fixed
- The running foot was drawing at raw pixels, so the chapter name and page count sat at roughly a
third of their intended size on a Nomad. They are now legible. The same fault was silently
shrinking the highlight caret and the switch outlines in the Aa panel, and those are fixed too. - Scene breaks were invisible. A break between scenes now prints a centered
* * *rather than
blank space, which was indistinguishable from an ordinary paragraph gap — and vanished entirely
when it happened to fall at the foot of a page. Every publisher's way of writing one (***,
---, a row of dashes, and others) is normalised to the same mark. - Text no longer runs underneath the progress bar at the narrow margin setting. The space the bar and
running foot need is now reserved out of the page, so how large that text is and how wide your
margins are no longer fight each other.
Install with adb install -r sn-reader-2026.07.2.apk. Your library, positions, bookmarks and highlights are kept across an update.