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2026-10-03 21:51 UTC

It's finally here: Paperback 1.0! My fast, fully accessible ebook and document reader is now out on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, with iOS following the second Apple decides to actually look at it. The changelog is once again way too big for any post, so here are the highlights: New platform: Linux! As an AppImage or a tarball, with desktop integration so documents open straight from your file manager. New formats: Comic book archives (.cbz).M4B and MP3 audiobooks, split into their chapters.Man pages, both man and BSD mdoc, gzipped or not.reStructuredText.Windows Write (.wri) files. Thanks, Mastodon.WinHelp (.hlp) files. Yes, really.Word 6 and Word 95 documents. Big new stuff: OCR for scanned PDFs, using the engine built into Windows and macOS. Press Enter on a scanned page, or batch OCR a whole range of pages with Ctrl+Shift+O.MathML in EPUB and HTML is now rendered as AsciiMath via MathCAT. Jump between formulas with M and Shift+M, and open the original MathML in a formula view with enter or space.Find All, listing every matching line so you can jump right to the one you want.Tables, Lists, and Pages views in the elements dialog.Mark a spot with Alt+F9 and copy everything from there to where you are with Alt+F10, no more shift-arrowing through 40 pages.Audio book playback speed, from half speed to 3x.Any document can now be opened in the web view.Headings are drawn at a size matching their level.Relative Go To: +n and -n in Go to Line, Page, and Percent.Heading navigation from the table of contents for EPUB, MOBI, and CHM books with no headings of their own.A Ukrainian translation. Plus a mountain of fixes, especially to PDF (I still hate PDF), MOBI/AZW3 books, which are now much faster and no longer cut off at 20 MB, FictionBook, and large books in general. And of course, the mobile apps. They open every format the desktop does, with seamless read aloud using your choice of voice, background audio book playback, navigation by headings, pages, links, tables and more, a sleep timer, export, and keyboard shortcuts that match the desktop. They're $19.99, once, per platform, and buying them is what pays for the work on Paperback. The desktop versions stay free. Desktop downloads: https://paperback.dev/downloads Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.paperback.android Full changelog: https://paperback.dev/readme.html Huge thanks to everyone who tested, filed bugs, translated, and put up with me during this development cycle. Enjoy! #Paperback #accessibility #blind

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