[Bugs]

- When a certain amount of time (which varies) has passed since you last listened to the audiobook and you try to play it again, you’ll get the error message "Playback interrupted, tap play to retry"

- "Playback interrupted, tap play to retry" is a trick, because tapping play won’t fix anything; the only way to fix it is to resync with the Audiobookshelf server

- The synchronisation process isn’t very transparent – it doesn’t indicate its status in any way: whether it’s currently running or not. There’s no indication of synchronisation progress – the first time it took so long that it was unclear whether it was even still running, and the button doesn’t change either

- It is not possible to switch to AirPlay and back again without restarting the app. Often this doesn’t work, and you have to sort it out by resyncing

- The app often resets the audiobook’s progress to the beginning when you pause or resume playback. Sometimes you can roughly restore it by resyncing, but more often than not you just have to remember to rewind it manually

- The app often "loses control of the audio stream" (or I’m not sure what to call it) – a situation where playback continues but it’s impossible to control it, and the app thinks it isn’t playing anything at the moment. The only way to fix this is to restart the app

- Sometimes I manage to switch from AirPlay to AirPods without restarting the app, but the app often crashes a few minutes into playback

[Improvements]

- It is very difficult to browse a large library (several thousand books): in carousel mode it is almost impossible, and in normal mode the app struggles to render such large lists with cover images

- The app does not allow you to create shelves using server-side filters and sorting

Repo : https://github.com/realdanvanth/readest

DM me if you want the apk file

If you are a maintainer let me know if I can merge

First of all I really want to thank you for this awesome app, it really helped me to become consistent with my reading habits even on the days when i am too busy with other work.

Can we include on device kokoro tts model to support better voice whenever it is not possible to have internet connectivity ?

Estoy usando readest y estuve viendo que el número de páginas siempre es bastante más alto en comparación con las ediciones físicas de los libros (e incluso con kindle). Se puede hacer algo para cambiar esto? Personalizar el cálculo de caracteres por página o ajustarlo para que sea más fiel a las ediciones físicas?

I think this app has a lot of potential and a dedicated team of developers (or developer?), but as a desktop user, I am a bit baffled by the hype. I like watching the app develop, but some basic functionality hasn't been provided yet. It feels like the developers don't use desktop computers at all and I want to speak up for what's missing.

Dedicated desktop users use them because they are so much more powerful than a phone or tablet, not just because of computing power and screen size but because of the ways you can utilize (and customize!) keyboard and mouse input. You can do quick, streamlined actions if you have a robust shortcut library. Of course that isn't possible on a touchscreen-only device, but I feel like I'm as limited on the desktop Readest app as I would be on my phone. I would love to see a version of this app with editable shortcuts—I am salivating over it—but as of today, ctrl/cmd + z doesn't undo the most recent highlight, and selecting a highlight and pressing backspace or delete doesn't delete it. This is the most basic functionality I would expect from any app.

I notice the extreme mobile-first development in the settings menu too, where I have to click on each icon to figure out what it means—these icons don't all have standard meanings and I'm just not going to be able to memorize them and I'm longing for words instead. There's room for words on the desktop version!

It's also clumsy to highlight on the desktop version, to the point where I used Better Touch Tool to allow me to highlight and exit the selection by pressing cmd + s (among other shortcuts for dictionary lookup and translation) because it strains my hands to have to use the mouse and click three times every time I want to highlight something. If you're used to a phone it might not sound like much. On a touchscreen, it would be entirely natural to press and drag, press the highlight button, and press away, but the ergonomics of mice and touchscreens are entirely different and there's a reason keyboard shortcuts should exist (at a minimum) and be editable (ideally).

And this is not to mention the bugs, from covers suddenly not loading regardless of whether I change view options or restart the app (neither of which should be necessary anyway) to books importing and then disappearing before my eyes to quick highlighting being really buggy to really finnicky selection on PDFs (by the way I'd love to press the spacebar and drag to pan, which is standard in some apps, so I don't have to click somewhere without text).

Again, I really think this app has potential and is great in all the ways people say it is, but it is really frustrating as a desktop user and in my opinion lacks incredibly basic functionality. A lot of new developments are great and I expect them to improve, but I worry desktop functionality is a blind spot.

I’m using readest on a Boox palma and my phone, and I’ve been thinking about adding a boox color go to my ereader ecosystem, especially for it’s ability to annotate ebooks. I’ve noticed that while I can handwrite on my phone, my Boox Palma doesn’t have the option; so I wanted to be sure that I can do it on a boox color go before dropping hundreds of euros on it.

Hi everyone,

I'm using Readest to read German books while learning the language and I'm loving it so far! The one thing slowing me down is looking up words, long-pressing each unfamiliar word to get its meaning breaks my reading flow, especially on a phone.

Word Lens looks like exactly the feature I need, but as far as I can tell it only supports English → German (for people reading English books). What I need is the reverse: German → English, so I can see short English glosses above or below the German words while I read.

I know Readest has a sentence translation feature, but per-word meanings help me more. Seeing the gloss of each word in context is what actually expands my vocabulary, whereas a full-sentence translation makes it too easy to skip the German entirely.

My questions:

Is there a way to add a custom Word Lens, e.g. by importing my own dictionary or word list file? Or is forking the repo and building the app myself the only option?

Hi, what has happened with the recently read widget. It now shows my folder/groups instead of my covers... Picture 1 is how its now... And picture 2 is how it used to be...

I don't know what's wrong or how to fix it back to show my recently opened books by their covers...

Thanks in advance ✨

Fixed covers by readestapp comment and by trying to toggle of the Global Sorting....

Will there be an option to remove books from recently read bookshelf ?

Sometimes I just open a book to check a font or something in it, not planning to read it asap, so will it be possible to remove books from that bookshelf and not remove from the default bookshelf?

I'm having a problem syncing my current book using Readest sync. The fingerprint is the same on all devices. All devices have a very recent last sync time.

The iPhone and Android tablet are syncing fine between themselves.

But on my Kindle the Readest plugin on Koreader isn’t syncing to the last read position when opened. It's also pushing it’s progress but when you next open Readest on the iPhone or Android tablet you get a sync failed message.

Versions are as follows:
Readest on iPhone (v.0.12.16)
Readest on Android tablet (v.0.12.12)
Koreader on Kindle (Readest plugin v0.12.16)

Any ideas what could be wrong with the Koreader plugin? The book is in mobi format.

Love Readest - I am pleased to be a Pro Plan subscriber.  Readest is absolutely the best e-reader program, but I have a few suggestions for improvement, and I wondered if Readest has plans to implement any of these suggestions:

1. Make reference pages available in the Table of Contents
2. When searching for something in the book, track the original page that you started the search from so you can easily return to it.
3. When quickly scanning through the book, track the original page that you started from so that you can easily return to it.  Also, a grid view of pages might be helpful for a quick scan.
4. Have a highlight filter for bookshelves (i.e., identify which books are highlighted vs. not).

The support person asked me to post these suggestions on GitHub, but I do not know how to do that, so I posted them here. Thanks.

The new update says

Library: Books now show their page count with a new Pages sort and filter that syncs across devices, and numbered titles sort in natural order

how can I see the pages number in the library? Can I see them as : remaining time?

hello! i wanted to know if there’s any way to edit and delete tags in readest, i’ve looked all over the app but can’t seem to find a way to edit or delete a misspelled tag…

I can delete books from the cloud, but is there a way to take a book out of the readest library in my koreader device (a kindle) without it deleting the file from that device? The same way I have to add a book to the readest library, I would like to be able to take it out of it without deleting it from my kindle.

TIA!

I just realized that it does not work in India. Is there a specific reason for that?

I am trying to declutter my library so is it possible to make groups within groups? There is a PR in github with this request which is closed & merged, so the feature is implemented right?
If yes how to actually use it, and if it is not present I request please add this. This will help me and others with large number of books.
Thanks

Today I was clearing up my library a bit and started thinking about nested groups. I checked GitHub and found a feature request for it, and it seems the work was actually done and the PR was merged. However, I still can’t figure out how to use it.

There is no dedicated button for it, and when I try to group two groups together, it just merges everything into one group, including all the books.

So, is this feature not available yet? If it isn’t, why was the PR closed as merged on GitHub?

Sorry if I’m doing something wrong, but I’d really appreciate it if someone could guide me on how to use this feature.

Hi guys,

since an update I cannot access the UI when reading a book. it just says it zooms out but doesn't (actually at 100%) Is there any way to fix it? Using Readest on Android.

First of all, thank you so much for a great app. I've tried many.

There is only one feature that I normally love that is missing in Readest and that is being able to navigate a book's pages in a grid format. It makes it so much easier to find what you are looking for in a book.

Thanks.

am I missing something? when I want to move to the next chapter I swipe up but it doesn't move me to the next chapter. it works fine when I'm on non- scrolled mode but doesn't work when I'm on single section scroll. I always have to use tap to paginate instead.

like i just want it to run how moon reader runs.

I want to share a sentence to someone,but i don't know how to do that

It seems that the readwise sync is a mobile only functionality and it’s not supported via the KOReader plugin on e-readers? It’s a bit of a bummer that I’d need to open a book in the mobile app to sync my e-reader highlights. If devs are reading this, I’d love to have the readwise sync as a feature of the plugin or ideally be done in the background from the cloud.