@TheQuinbox__dup_29935@dragonscave.space

Post #458398

2026-02-28 17:22 UTC

Paperback version 0.8.0 is out! For those that don't know, Paperback is a fully accessible and blazing fast ebook/document reader that supports an insane number of formats. Changelog: Added Japanese, simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese translations! #300, #326, #335. Added an automatic updater that will now replace your currently installed version of Paperback instead of just downloading the new version! #323. Added optional sound feedback for reaching a bookmark or a note, thanks Andre Louis for the sounds! #110. Added RTF document support! #26. Added support for DAISY XML documents. #136. Added support for Flat Open Document Text files! Added support for Flat Open Document presentations! Added support for separators with s and shift+s. #294. Any movement of greater than 300 characters will now automatically add to your navigation history. #179. Fixed restoring Paperback's window from the system tray. #284. Fixed Markdown documents showing raw text instead of rendered HTML in the Web View. Fixed tables not rendering properly in Markdown files. #303. Image only PDFs will now warn you of their existence when you attempt to load one. #89. It is now possible to check for new dev builds instead of stable releases when checking for updates. #333. Properly embed version information in the Paperback executable. #204. Split the options dialog into tabs for ease of use and navigation. Switched to Hayro for parsing PDFs, leading to more reliability, speed, and fewer DLLs. Rewrote the entire app in Rust. The new codebase is safer, loads documents faster, and is easier to maintain and extend. The text control's context menu will now include reader-specific actions instead of generic items such as cut and paste. #114. Downloads page: https://paperback.dev/downloads/ Donate on PayPal: https://paypal.me/tygillespie05 Sponsor on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/trypsynth Enjoy!

Replies (11)

@FreakyFwoof__dup_34051@universeodon.com 2026-03-01 09:55

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Not a huge deal because I'm reading epubs that are having chapters appended to the end but in updating I've noticed I'm put back at the beginning. Is that a thing? Did my ini file get to unwieldy? It is currently 38.6 KB haha

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@bscross32@tweesecake.social 2026-02-28 17:27

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space I tried to use this the other day. I loaded an image only PDF into it thinking it would OCR it and spit out plain text, but it didn't. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is that not a thing?

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@davetaylor2112@tweesecake.social 2026-02-28 17:37

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Faster? What do you mean, faster? How is that even possible? lol

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@brian_hartgen@dragonscave.space 2026-02-28 18:21

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space That is quite an update! I'll get it now.

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@ysotomayor@mastodon.social 2026-02-28 18:33

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Holy crap dude! This keeps getting better and better! Thank you!

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@marco@caneandable.social 2026-02-28 18:45

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Gosh this sounds totally awesome! Please, let me know if and when you'll get started on an implementation for MacOS. I'm very interested.

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@amir@dragonscave.space 2026-02-28 19:20

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Sorry from the middle of the war zone, but wasn't the broken paragraph navigation issue with PDF files going to be fixed in 0.8? And 0.7? It's still there, and makes PDF files a huge pain to navigate and read.

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@retrosponge@kind.social 2026-02-28 22:13

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Can I just say thank you. So many devs on here post about their software being updated but don't actually specify what the program does and usually the title is so obtuse you can't figure it out. I appreciate you posting what yours is and I will go and check it out since this is very much in my wheelhouse.

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@Bri@fwoof.space 2026-02-28 23:09

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space No mac? Saaaaaaaaadface.

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@freya@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-01 11:14

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space heeey thing for you, any chance Paperback could get support to read QRD files? they're a thing Q-Read does when you open a document, it converts the thing to an SQLite database for some reason

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@Pool@dragonscave.space 2026-03-02 11:02

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space thank you for the update. it is not loading the whole book in the xml format. only the initial content up to table of contents. this happens with each book.

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