What is new

[9.5.7] Android Auto, faster Google Drive sync, MuPDF 1.28.3

Android Auto

Librera now appears as a media app in Android Auto
Browse recent books in the car, with covers, titles and authors
Selecting a book resumes it at its saved position
Playback controls work from the car, the lock screen and Bluetooth

Text-to-speech

Uses Android’s standard media notification, with cover art, a progress bar and lock screen controls
Fixed no speech when the system default engine points at an uninstalled package
Fixed the notification disappearing, or staying stuck on “please wait”, after a long time in the background
Fixed audio focus not being released on pause, which left other apps muted
Fixed a crash when requesting the notification permission from the TTS controls

Reading

Upgraded the MuPDF engine to 1.28.3
Text selection now works while “crop white space” is enabled, in both book and scroll modes
Reading direction (RTL) can now be set in scroll mode, not only in book mode
Annotating is allowed while crop is enabled
Fixed reflow when toggling “crop white space”
Book mode: the clock/battery ticker stops when the status bar is hidden
New “Show progress slider” setting to toggle the seek bar row
Improved jump history and “Back” arrow visibility when using the slider
More consistent brightness values when adjusting by scroll
Fixes for formatted .txt files

Google Drive sync

Much faster: smaller listing requests, parallel downloads and a change check that skips work when nothing changed
Deleting a book now propagates: it no longer comes back from another device
Fixed downloads failing into folders that did not exist locally
Fixed a sync that could stop early on files without a size
Temporary download files are no longer uploaded to Drive

LibreraX is the future Librera application: read more, beta downloads

[9.4.21] Text replacement and color settings

Fixed text replacement for multiple words
Updated the UI for changing text and background colors
Added an alert for permanent file deletion
Clicking on File Information metadata now navigates to the library
Added the Hebrew (“iw”) translation and fixed other translations
Fixed the grid view widget
Fixed the eye reset timer

[9.4.8] All-storage access is optional

The app can use the system file manager to open individual files
Fixed choosing a profile

[9.3.75] Contrast and brightness for all reading modes

Fixed contrast and brightness
Advanced option to enable contrast and brightness for all reading modes
Fixed Chinese language
Fixed search in many PDF and EPUB books

[9.3.55] Librera for macOS (beta)

Supports PDF, EPUB, FB2, CBZ, CBR. Download

[9.3.35] Tags rewritten, single and long tap book actions

Tags functionality rewritten
Configure the book click action for single tap and long tap

[9.3.10] Super fast reader

[9.3.1] Recent, Favorites, Tags, Playlist, Folders fast preview panel

[9.2.21] Many improvements and fixes

[9.1.29] Page foreground color, RTL or LTR per book

Configure page foreground color
Set RTL or LTR text direction for each book individually

[9.1.7] Remember RTL or LTR per book, SherpaTTS

Remember RTL or LTR for books individually
Added SherpaTTS as a recommended TTS engine
Many small fixes

[9.0.5] Android 15 and Android 16 support

Support Android 15, Android 16
Improved UI
Fixed grid widget
Fixed TTS
Added support for user CA certificates
Added double tap to share page as image
Added range search in the book (example: search text[14:344])

[8.9.182] Android 15 edge-to-edge fix

[8.9.175] Librera online book reader

Read PDF, EPUB, FB2, CBZ, TXT in the browser: Librera online book reader

[8.9.161] Fixed TTS audio focus

[8.9.153] Show library-excluded books in the favorite tab

[8.9.150] Changing words within the book

[8.9.127] Edit PDF meta tags

[8.9.133] F-Droid version with Internet and OPDS

[8.9.126] Open books from external SD card without a cache copy, when possible

[8.9.117] Clicking the back button twice to exit an activity

[8.9.76] Show print edition page numbers (Epub3)

[8.9.54] Accent color

[8.9.50] Folder preview

[8.8.104] Highlighting initial letters

[8.8.79] Search for some text in the Library books

It’s possible to filter library results
Sentence search is possible

[8.8.79] Sort bookmarks by page or by date

[8.8.37] Access Library from the book

[8.8.16] Support external (http://) images in EPUB books.

Experimental feature should be enabled

[8.8.0] Changing the rendering engine within the app

MuPDF_1.11 basic Librera rendering engine

MuPDF_1.20.x modern rendering engine, fast, accurate but can be with bugs, crashes

[8.6.47] Custom CSS support and Table support

Added possibility to choose user styles css file

/sdcard/Librera/profile.Librera/device.[]/*.css

app-Librera.css - Librera default user styles for documents
app-MuPDF.css - Default MUPDF styles with Table support

[8.6.43] Rotate the page 90 degrees, cut out the white borders, cut into two pages

[8.6.41] Show series name, order by series index

[8.6.40] Configure what to show in the favorites tab

[8.6.39] Moved Web Search and Web Dictionaries to the user files app-WebDict.json and app-WebSearch.json

> /storage/emulated/0/Librera/profile.Librera/device.[name]/app-WebSearch.json
[
{"name": "_ Disabled dict starts with _", "path": "https://translate.google.com/#%s/%s/%s"},
{"name": "Google", "path": "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s"},
{"name": "StartPage", "path": "https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=%s"},
{"name": "DuckDuckGo", "path": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s"}
]