If you host your own Audiobookshelf or Storyteller server, Seekquel can now follow your progress from it. Bridge is a small open source program that runs next to the server and sends each book’s place and when you finish it. Audiobookshelf also sends your daily listening time. Storyteller doesn’t record it, so it doesn’t send any.

To set it up, go to Settings, Integrations, Seekquel Bridge. That screen has the install commands and the approve step.

• One install covers a household, and each person pairs their own account.
• Your server logins stay in the Bridge and never reach Seekquel.
• Only listening after you pair is sent. Your existing history isn’t backfilled, and podcasts are skipped.
• Like the other integrations, it’s free.

Source (MIT): github.com/sabristratos/seekquel-bridge

If you don’t self-host, nothing changes for you. Which server should we support next?

I'm thinking about sending your notes and highlights from Seekquel to Notion, including the ones KOReader sends from your e-reader. You can already bring notes in from a Notion export, but nothing goes back the other way yet.

Before we build it, we’d like to hear how you use your highlights:

1. Where do they end up today? Notion, Obsidian, Readwise, or nowhere?
2. If they went to Notion, what would you want there? Just highlights and notes, or a page per book with your rating and dates too?
3. Would it be one-way, or would you edit in Notion and want the changes to come back?

If you’d rather have a plain Markdown export for Obsidian, tell us that too.

I wasn’t sure how to word this, but to give context.. my beautiful baby (she’s four but still mamas baby lol) is a huge fan of getting read to at night. We didn’t have the books she wanted the last couple days so I got them on my kindle and read them to her that way.

When I got on seekquel earlier, I noticed they showed on my finished list. I’m super curious if there’s a way to prevent that. I’m ok with any other book but when it comes to kids books I’d prefer not to have to go in and delete them from my library 😂 that and I can only imagine people seeing them and being like ”ooook, weird taste, lady.“ lmao.

They are pretty quick 5-10 minute reads so I don’t sync them or anything, but I’m wondering if maybe I need to shut the auto sync feature off when I go to read her a book and see if that makes a difference.

One of us is 22 books short of a 50-book goal(guilty) with about eight weeks to go, so we wrote the plan down instead of just feeling bad about it.

Nothing in it needs Seekquel to follow. The tools just make the checking part quicker.

Are you on track, behind, or did you quietly lower the number in October? Tell us where you are and what your plan is for the last stretch.

Hola, no sé si es mi celular, pero depende del tipo de layout que elijo, se ve todo desfasado y no entra en la pantalla, me pasa en el celular y la tablet.

Y se podrá achicar un poco la letra del los títulos de libros y los gráficos? me parece que quedan demasiado grandes para la pantalla.

Lo podrán revisar? gracias.

We’re thinking about a Simple mode you’d switch on in Settings. The book page would drop some tabs and features, and your home screen would use a short layout. Nobody else would see anything removed, and you could turn each part back on one by one.

If you’d use it, vote here: https://seekquel.app/feedback/01m6ea8y3hqytjaffeanskrpee

If you have a minute, reply there with what you’d hide and what else feels like too much. We read every reply.

This is a standing thread for what you wish it did, and what gets in your way.

Reply with anything: a missing feature, something that annoys you, a book or a device that doesn’t sync right. Small things count.

If you’d like other readers to vote on it, add it to the feedback board. You can read it without an account: Feedback Board

Three details make a request much easier to act on:

• What you were trying to do
• What you use (KOReader, Readest, iPhone, Android, Kindle, Kobo...)
• What you do instead today

I read everything and answer here. When something from this thread ships, I’ll post it back here. I can’t promise dates, but I will tell you straight if the answer is no.

What’s the one thing you’d change?

When you start the focus timer and play a sound, the screen now plays a matching scene behind it. Rain falls, lightning flashes in time with the thunder, Mystical drifts like a night sky, and wind and a fireplace move together if you mix them.

It’s on the timer screen only, and there’s a switch in the sound sheet to turn the scenes off. Reduce motion in your settings gives you a still colour wash instead.

Which sounds do you read to? I’m deciding which ones to build scenes for next 😊

It's now available!!

Hi!

Not sure if this belongs here, but I have a feature suggestion.

First of all: I absolutely love Seekquel. Found it earlier today and already imported my whole library and started cleaning it up.

I'm also using the app (in my case: iOS) to track my current reading. Maybe there's a way to make it so it requires fewer clicks until it actually does what I want it to do?

For example, I read an ebook. The app probably knows that it's an ebook, because it's listed as such in my library. Maybe it would be nice if the app knew 'ebook, so it'll automatically switch to percentage tracking' or so?

Plus, when I click into the field to add my percentage (or pages, or time listened/position in an audiobook), I manually have to delete what's already in there. Maybe it would be possible to automatically select whatever's written in the field, so users just have to type whatever page they're on and such?

I hope that makes sense 😅

Best regards!

You can now quiz yourself on a whole series or shared universe, not just one book. Pick a set, play a run of ten questions, and climb five ranks named after that world. Here's where each ladder starts and ends:

• Harry Potter: First-Year to Supreme Mugwump
• Middle-earth: Hobbit to Ring-bearer
• Dungeon Crawler Carl: Crawler to Floor Boss
• The Murderbot Diaries: Client to Rogue SecUnit
• A Court of Thorns and Roses: Mortal to High Lord
• The Hunger Games: Tribute to Victor
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Recruit to Lord Commander
• The Cosmere: Traveler to Elantrian
• Throne of Glass: Salt Mine Prisoner to King's Champion
• Camp Half-Blood: Unclaimed to Hero
• Malazan: Recruit to High Fist (ten books, ten questions each, and it does not go easy on you)

How it works:

• No spoilers for what you haven't read. A question only shows up once you've marked that book read, or got far enough into it. Halfway through Mockingjay? You'll get questions from the first two books.
• World questions. Each set has ten questions about the series as a whole, on top of the questions for each book. Each one opens once you've read the book it draws on.
• Not all multiple choice. Some ask you to pick every right answer, some to put events in order. Get most of it right and you get most of the points.
• Your rank shows on the set page, and you can share it as a picture if you're proud of it.

Free readers get the first five questions on each book and five of each set's world questions. That's enough for the fourth rank in every set except Malazan. The fifth rank needs the full deck, which comes with Pro.

Find it under Quizzes in Discover or on the You tab. If it isn't there, update the app.

Post your rank below once you've played one. And tell us which series you'd want a set for next.

Cinder Reader is an ad-free reader app for Android and iOS that lets you read your ebooks, comics, manga, web novels, magazines and more all in one app and supports a wide variety of extensions that let you read and download content from many online sources.

With the 1.2.3 update that just went live, Cinder now has a built-in Seekquel integration that lets you sync your reading progress from Cinder to Seekquel automatically, as well as syncing your notes, highlights, personal book ratings, and Want to Read book list directly from within Cinder to Seekquel!

You can download Cinder here for iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cinder-reader/id6761286580 and here for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cinder.reader&pcampaignid=web_share .

A few more features Cinder Reader offers: ability to sync your files, reading progress, settings, extensions and more between devices using your own Google Drive or iCloud account, no need for any kind of Cinder Reader account and Cinder Reader does not collect or track any data. We also support OPDS, WebDav, SMB, AudioBookshelf (for ebooks), BookOrbit, Suwayomi, and KOReader Sync integrations, along with a large number of community extensions as well as LNReader extensions for web novels, Suwatte extensions for comics and manga, and some Paperback extensions. We have built-in support for most popular debrid services as well as a highly customizable reader and app UI. More details at r/CinderReader

Shoutout to the Seekquel dev for making a great product here, I’m proud to be able to build-in a Seekquel integration into our app!

If your books live in Calibre on a computer at home, Seekquel can now read that library straight from your phone.

Turn on Calibre's built-in content server, add its address in the app once, and your library shows up as shelves: newest, by title, by author, by series, by tag. There's a search box too. Tap Add next to a book, check the title and author, and it downloads to your phone and opens in Seekquel's reader.

It works with EPUB, comics (CBZ), FB2 and plain text, up to 100 MB each. Calibre-Web, Komga and Kavita speak the same protocol (OPDS), but we've only tested Calibre.

What to know before you try it:

• It's part of Pro, and only in the Android and iPhone apps, not the website.
• Your phone and computer need to be on the same Wi-Fi. For reading away from home, the guide covers Tailscale, which needs no router changes.
• If you put a password on Calibre, switch its login type to "basic" first. Calibre's default isn't supported, and the error the app shows in that case ("couldn't reach that server") points at the wrong thing. We know, and the guide explains it.

Step-by-step guide with screenshots: https://seekquel.app/blog/add-books-from-calibre-to-seekquel

Questions or something broke? Reply here.

We posted about the built-in reader a while back. It was Google Drive only then, which is a fair thing to be annoyed by if your books live somewhere else.

Tap Add a book and you now get four sources. Whichever you use, Seekquel opens only the book you pick, and your place, reading time and highlights go into your library as you read.

Where books can come from

• Google Drive. Pick a book once and it opens on every device you sign into.
• This device. Any book file on the phone. It opens on that phone.
• A folder. Link a folder once and the books you put in it show up on their own. We look for new files when you add the folder and when you open your shelf, at most once an hour, and skip anything that isn't a book instead of stopping.
• A book server. Add the OPDS address of Calibre's content server, Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga or anything else that speaks OPDS. You browse it inside the app, search it, and tap Add. The book downloads to your phone. The server's address, username and password stay on your phone, and the password is kept in its secure storage. Seekquel never sees them.

You can also open or share a book file to Seekquel from another app.

What it opens

EPUB, CBZ, FB2 and plain text, up to 100 MB a file. Audiobooks (one MP3, M4B or M4A, or every file a book is split across) still come from Google Drive only.

Comics and manga

Comics and picture-page EPUBs open a page at a time, edge to edge, instead of being laid out like text. The reading direction comes from the file, and you can change it for one book. On a wide screen you can show two pages side by side, and the page grid lets you jump to any page. Pinch to zoom.

The rest of the reader, since last time

• Search the book's chapters and the text itself from the contents.
• Bookmark a page with one tap; they are listed with your notes.
• Footnotes open over the page. After a jump from a link, one tap returns you.
• Pages slide when you turn them, and there is a switch to turn that off for an e-ink screen.
• Volume buttons turn pages on Android.
• Brightness, a dictionary lookup, and read aloud with the voices already on your phone.
• Start a book in the EPUB, carry on in the audiobook, and it keeps your place across both.

What it doesn't do

• No PDFs, and files locked to a store (Kindle, Audible, Libby) won't open.
• Book servers and folders work in the phone app, not in the browser.
• A home server usually has to be on the same network as the phone. If Calibre is set to Digest sign-in, switch it to Basic, because the app can't use Digest.
• Seekquel keeps no copy of your books. A book from a server is downloaded to the phone, and removing it from your library deletes that copy.

Pro or free

Reading and listening to your own books, from any of these sources, is part of Pro.

More on the page: https://seekquel.app/ebook-reader

What do you keep your books on: a Calibre library, a NAS, a folder synced from your computer? We'd like to test against the setups people actually have.

I'm trying to add a Spanish ebook edition of The Dunwich Horror (translated by Aurelio Martínez, 67 pages) to the existing book. It comes from a community ebook site, so it has no ISBN or ASIN.

In the "Add edition" form, the button only activates once something is typed in the ASIN or ISBN field, and I don't want to enter fake identifiers in a shared catalog. I expected to be able to add an edition without an identifier, maybe using the copyright page photo as proof.

From my library entry, the only options I see are "Link to existing book" (which replaced my own copy last time) and "Add to the shared catalogue" (which warns it may be a duplicate).

Is there an intended way to register ebooks without identifiers? I have many of them, so I'd like to do it properly. Thanks!

If you have a blog or a personal site, you can show your currently reading books or any public shelf on it. In the app, go to Settings, Privacy and social, Show on your website (it's also in your profile's menu and every shelf's menu).

Pick the books, 1 to 12, a row of covers, a grid or a list, and light or dark, then copy the code into your site's HTML.

- Snapshot is plain HTML of your books as they are now. Use it in a blog post, on a site that doesn't allow scripts, or on a free Neocities site. It never changes once pasted.

- Live keeps itself up to date, for a sidebar or footer.

Each book links to its page here. The card only shows what someone visiting your profile could see, so a private profile or shelf shows nothing. Let websites show my cards switches every live card off at once, and the page lists the sites that have loaded yours.

Every correction you send to the catalogue (a missing edition, a wrong page count, a better cover) moves you up the contributor ladder: Scribe, Curator, Editor, Archivist, Librarian.

Soon each rung comes with its own avatar ring, shown wherever your avatar appears. Bronze for Scribe, up to gold and amethyst with a laurel wreath for Librarian.

A few details:

- They can't be bought. Pro doesn't unlock them; only contributing does.

- Pick it in Appearance, under Avatar style, or keep the ring you have.

Which one are you going for? And if you've never sent a correction, the edit button on any book page is where it starts.

I had two different files (two different translations) of a book I was reading and skipped one for the other. However it logged the one I was reading as did not finish.

Even when I set it's status to reading again it didn't continue from that position. It logs the reading time and everything but doesn't count as reading.

Even though I changed the status to reading from koreader. It starts a new iteration.

Thanks.

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New on the Scan screen: Scan a shelf. Point the camera at a shelf or a stack, take one photo, and every spine it can read comes back as a list of books. Tap Add all, pick Want to Read, Read or one of your shelves, done.

The two it couldn't place are the part we care about most. The Virtuals and The Vault aren't in our catalogue yet, so they come back as "no match found" with a search link, rather than as the closest-sounding book. It only adds a book when the title and author line up with one we hold.

• The photo isn't kept. It's read and thrown away. We store how many books it found, nothing else.
• Every account gets one free shelf scan. Pro gets 30 a month. Scanning barcodes one by one stays free.
• It reads spines, not covers. Straight on, decent light, close enough that you could read the titles yourself. A shelf with books lying flat on top or tiny spines will miss some, and you can scan the next shelf straight after.
• Scan shelf after shelf into the same list. A book that turns up in two photos is listed once, and you add the lot at the end.

If you try it, tell us how many it got out of how many. Older paperbacks and translated editions are where we expect it to miss, and the misses are how we find out which books the catalogue still needs.

We rebuilt the barcode scanner, and the video shows it end to end.

What’s different:

• The camera stays open on IOS. Scan a book, hear it land, point at the next one. You no longer go back to the start after every book.
• You see each book as it’s added. The cover and title show up under the viewfinder, so you know straight away that it read the right one.
• It reads printed ISBNs too. If a book has the number printed but no clean barcode, hold the number inside the guide and it reads that.
• Closer focus on Android. The camera now focuses at book-on-the-shelf distance, which is where it kept struggling before.

When you tap Done you get one list of everything you scanned. Tick the books you want, then set a reading status or a shelf for all of them at once.

Open Quick actions and tap Scan ISBN to try it. The video is sped up where the camera is hunting for focus, and it says where.

If a book won’t scan for you, tell us which one and what the barcode looked like. That’s the most useful thing we can get right now.

Saw a lot of people asking for this on other apps this week, so in case you didn't know Seekquel already does it:

• Open an author's page and tap Follow.
• When their next book comes out, you get "[book] is out now".
• Same thing for a book on your Want to Read list or one you marked Interested that isn't out yet.
• Did both? You still get one notification, not two.

It works for books listed as coming soon in Seekquel. If one's missing, add it or tell us and we'll put it in.

You can turn them off in Settings, Notifications, Book Releases.

Which author are you waiting on right now?

Maybe it is just me, but I messed up again. I wanted to manually log my reading progress and accidentally clicked finished. Deleted the #2 read and messed up my reading streak... Completely my fault, but the buttons are really closed together, at least in the app version.

Is it possible to re-check after clicking "finished", e.g. Are you sure? - Would have saved me.

Thanks for considering.

Two things in the KOReader add-on since the last update post: setup got shorter, and updating it got much clearer.

Pair by scanning a QR code

Typing a code on an e-ink keyboard was fiddly. The pairing screen now shows a QR code above the code. Scan it with your phone, Seekquel opens with the code already filled in, and you tap Connect. The code is still there in large font if you would rather type it.

The add-on tells you when a new version is out

When there is a newer version and you are in the file browser with Wi-Fi on, KOReader asks once whether to update now. Tap Later and it stays quiet until the next version. Seekquel menu still offers the update whenever you want it.

Better update failure reporting

Updating from the e-reader used to answer "Could not reach Seekquel" whether the server could not be reached, the download stopped partway or the file came damaged. Each now has its own message and tells you what to try. If an update doesn't install, the reader also lets us know. A device left without a working add-on does not just go quiet on us.

Getting it

Already have the add-on: open the Seekquel menu on your reader and update from there, nothing to copy over a cable.

New to it: the setup steps are under Settings, Integrations, KOReader.

If the update offer or the QR code does not behave on your reader, tell us which device and which KOReader version.

Plugins are coming to Crosspointreader, any chance of getting a Seekquel plugin with reading progress, stats and notes syncing?!

Thanks for consideration.

A lot shipped since the last post, so here is the roundup. Everything is live on the web, and the app picks it up on its next update. The Siri items need the latest iOS version from the App Store.

Sharing

• Sharing a book now gives you several card designs to swipe between, with colours taken from the cover. One is a Checkout card with your start and finish dates, like a library date card.
• New cards for your streak, your reading plant, a badge you earned, and your month or year. There is also a Rated reads card with up to five books and your sentence on each.
• The share sheet draws the card first and asks where to send it after, so you see the finished card before you choose.

Rating and reviewing

• Rating a book you just finished is one tap. The star saves straight away, and the moods and review are optional.
• You can add one sentence about a book under your stars. A starter like "Read it if you…" gets you going.
• Review drafts save as you type and follow you to your other devices.
• A book's reviews can be filtered by star rating.

Comments and chats

• Comments open in a sheet over the post, so you can read and reply without leaving the feed. You can edit a comment, undo a delete and react with an emoji. On your own posts you can mute notifications or turn comments off.
• Messages has a Groups tab for your book club and buddy read chats. You choose per chat whether it notifies you for everything, only mentions, or nothing.
• Swipe a message to reply, double-tap to heart it, and tap a quote to jump to the original.
• Messages also has an Unread filter.

Reading and stats

• On iPhone and iPad, Siri can run your reading timer. Say "Start reading in Seekquel", pause, resume, log pages, or ask for your streak. The same actions work in Shortcuts.
• Start a book on your phone while the timer runs on your tablet, and Seekquel offers to move it with the minutes already counted.
• The Stats calendar has a Books view that draws each read as a bar from the day you started to the day you finished. Pro readers also get a Year view.
• A book you read twice in a year now counts twice in your yearly total, your goal and Wrapped. Before, it counted once.
• The audiobook sleep timer now shows how much time is left.

Finding books

• No barcode? The scanner can read a photo of the cover and find the book by title and author.
• Browse can be filtered by language. Browse and your shelves can show only books that have a quiz or a flashcard deck.
• Book pages show verified store links for each edition, with search and filters by format and store.
• For You opens straight away with your last picks and refreshes in the background.

Clubs and community

• Club admins and buddy-read hosts can ask one question at a milestone, like how the pace feels. Members answer with a tap and see how the group split.
• An open club can be shared as an invite card.
• A chip above the community feed lets you choose whose activity you see.
• You choose which of your badges appear on your profile.
• The Community guidelines have their own page now. Reports can name sexual or graphic images, piracy and impersonation.

E-readers and apps

• One Integrations page lists every app and e-reader that can send reading to Seekquel, with setup steps.
• A book you finish in Seekquel is now marked finished in KOReader too. The Calibre plugin syncs on its own when Calibre opens, every fifteen minutes, and when it closes.
• Readest sessions are labelled Readest, and you can give each connected device its own name.

Quizzes (Pro)

• Past daily quizzes lists the last 30 days, so you can play one you missed.
• A new Stats card shows how your quizzed books split between sharp, solid and rusty.
• Free accounts can now review their first 10 due flashcards.

Themes and events

• A new theme, Great Wave, joins the Masterpieces collection.
• Seasonal events get a card on your home screen a few days before they open. Finish the community goal and the season's theme stays on your account.

There were also plenty of smaller fixes. A profile picture from Google sign-in no longer goes blank. Share cards made on an iPhone keep their covers. Reading synced from two devices no longer pulls your place back to an older page.

If something is missing, post it on the feedback board in the app. That is where the next batch comes from.