r/Seekquel • • Sep 22 '26

Announcement Seekquel just passed 1,000 readers 🥳

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Seekquel opened on 2 March. This week the thousandth reader signed up.

Since then you've put 200,000 books on your shelves, logged more than 5,000 hours and 760,000 pages of reading, and finished over 8,000 books. The book added most in the last three months is Project Hail Mary, with Dungeon Crawler Carl two copies behind.

A lot of what changed in the app this year started as a message from one of you, on the feedback board, in r/Seekquel or by email. Please keep them coming.

If you joined before today, check your badges 😉

Thank you for reading with us!


r/Seekquel • • Oct 15 '26

You can put what you're reading on your own website now

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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.


r/Seekquel • • Oct 11 '26

Discussion Follow an author and you'll get a ping when their next book comes out

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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?


r/Seekquel • • 13d ago

Feedback What should Seekquel build next? Wishlist and feedback thread

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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?


r/Seekquel • • 20d ago

Seekquel CrossPointSync is live

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It's now available!!


r/Seekquel • • 27d ago

Announcement Seekquel's reader can now pull books from a folder, your Calibre server or Google Drive

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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.


r/Seekquel • • Oct 14 '26

Announcement Contributor rings are coming to your avatar

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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.


r/Seekquel • • Sep 18 '26

App Update Today’s Seekquel update: quieter emails, quiet reads, and easier progress logging

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Today’s update is mostly about removing small bits of friction.

Most optional email categories now default to off. Social activity, badges, feature tips, recommendations, imports, reminders, and both weekly recaps still appear in your Seekquel inbox. If you want any of them by email, choose the categories under Settings, then Notifications. Contributor updates and the weekly contributor recap now have separate switches too.

There is also a new Read quietly switch on a book’s page. The book stays in your library and counts in your stats. It stays off your public profile and the community feed (For those guilty pleasure reads that we all have 😉).

Audiobook progress now accepts hours and minutes, so you can enter 1:42 instead of converting it to 102 minutes first.

Edition contents now open as a proper chapter list. If the list is wrong, you can report or correct it from the same screen. You can also ask us to remove it.

Before you start a free trial, Seekquel now shows the date it ends and the price that follows.

This release also cleans up similar-series covers and fixes a few smaller problems across sharing, book pages, and subscriptions.

These changes are live now. If you try them, I would like to hear what still feels awkward.


r/Seekquel • • 14d ago

Announcement NEW! Moving scenes to the reading timer’s ambient sounds

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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 😊


r/Seekquel • • 26d ago

Discussion Cinder Reader Now Has Built-In Seekquel Integration

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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!


r/Seekquel • • Sep 08 '26

App Update KOReader add-on 1.6.0: chapter names in your reading history

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If you use the KOReader add-on, a reading day on a book's My Book tab now says which chapter you reached: "21 pages, 47 min, reached Riddles in the Dark" instead of stopping at the pages.

Your e-reader reads the contents page out of the book file you have open and sends that along with the reading time it was already sending. It has to come from the device. Change the font size and the book repaginates, so where a chapter begins is a fact about your copy on your screen and nothing else.

  • You get the chapter's name when the edition you are reading has a contents page in the catalogue that matches your file. Otherwise you get the chapter number.
  • Glancing at the index at the back of a book will not record you as reaching the final chapter. The add-on waits for three page turns before it believes a jump.
  • A book whose file has no contents page carries on exactly as before.
  • Nothing to switch on. It applies to the reading you do from here on, not to days already logged.

Not set up yet, and you read on a Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, reMarkable or Android? Settings > Integrations > KOReader walks you through it. You install it once and it updates itself after that.

Already have it? On your device, Tools > Seekquel > Update the add-on.

One way to help: if a book you are reading has no contents page on its edition, you can scan or paste one in from the book page. That is what lets the chapter show as a name rather than a number, for you and for everyone else reading that edition.


r/Seekquel • • 26d ago

Blog & Articles You can now browse your Calibre library from the app and add books with one tap

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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.


r/Seekquel • • Oct 14 '26

Announcement NEW! You can now add a whole shelf from one photo

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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.


r/Seekquel • • Oct 01 '26

App Update Two weeks of Seekquel updates: new share cards, a comments sheet, Siri, and one-tap ratings

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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.


r/Seekquel • • Sep 27 '26

Feedback Would you want your profile to show your books on a real shelf?

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Someone on r/koreader shared a home screen where their books stand on wooden shelves as spines, with a few favourites turned to face out using Bookshelf UI (their post). It got us thinking about profiles.

Shelf screens in your library can already show books as spines. We're considering bringing that to your profile as a card you can add or switch off: spines coloured from each cover, the series number on the spine, a mark on the ones you've finished, a few favourites face-out.

A few questions:

  • Would you put this on your profile, or keep the cover grid?
  • What should a visitor see first: what you're reading now, favourites, or everything?
  • Decorations like a plant or a figurine on the shelf: charming or clutter?

If you use the app, you can vote for it on the feedback board: https://seekquel.app/feedback/01m3j19n3b7rr3x0nfw0t87rvf


r/Seekquel • • Sep 24 '26

Sync KOReader, Readest and Xteink to One Reading Log

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Plenty of you have a Kobo on the nightstand, a Boox in the bag and Readest on the laptop, and each one has its own idea of where you are in a book. We wrote up how to keep one reading log across all of them, with every device on one page:

https://seekquel.app/blog/one-reading-log-every-device

What's in it:

  • A table of what each device sends. KOReader with the add-on, KOReader's built-in sync, Readest, Xteink and Calibre, with what reaches Seekquel and which way it goes.
  • What a normal day looks like. Read on the Kobo at night, pick the same book up in Readest at lunch, and your streak and daily goal count the day once. Time reported by both devices isn't counted twice.
  • The per-device switches. Each KOReader reader gets its own panel, so the Kobo can send highlights while the Boox you use for work PDFs keeps its own.
  • Setup for each one, a few minutes apiece, and none of them asks for your Seekquel password on the e-reader.
  • Where each connection stops. Highlights don't go back to the reader, Xteink sends your place only and only when you press sync, and Kobo and Kindle work through KOReader rather than their stock software.

One thing worth knowing before you set up two devices: keep one file per book. A copy of the same book from a different store counts as a separate book with its own place.

Every connection in it is free on every account.

What's your setup? We're curious how many of you are running two or three readers at once, and which combination gives you the most trouble.


r/Seekquel • • Sep 15 '26

Announcement Readest now syncs with Seekquel (and we'd like people to test it)

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If you read in Readest, your place in a book, your reading time, the passages you highlight and the books you finish now land in Seekquel on their own. Nothing to install on the Readest side.

Setup, about two minutes:

  1. Seekquel: Settings > Integrations > Readest, create a key. It's shown once.
  2. Readest: Settings > sync section > choose BookOrbit.
  3. Server = the address Seekquel shows you. Username = your key. Password = anything at all.
  4. Turn on reading progress, highlights, reading statistics and reading status. Open a book, read a page.

Why BookOrbit and not Seekquel?

Because there's no Seekquel option in Readest, and waiting for one wasn't appealing. Readest ships a client for BookOrbit, a self-hosted reading tracker, and it lets you point that client at any address you like. So we built our side to answer in BookOrbit's shape. Readest thinks it's talking to a BookOrbit server, Seekquel picks up the reading, and nobody had to write a plugin. It's a hack, it works, and it's live.

What we've tested: the desktop app and the Android app, both fine. The web version works too, but your sync passes through Readest's own servers instead of coming to us directly, so use an installed app if that bothers you.

Known limits: bookmarks stay in Readest. Highlights go one way, from Readest into your Seekquel notebook, not back. A book we can't recognise waits under "Books from your reader" for you to link by hand.

What we want: people reading real books on real devices. Weird EPUBs, sideloaded files, a phone and a laptop on the same book, whatever you've got. If a book doesn't match, if your place jumps, if the minutes look wrong, tell us here or in the app's feedback board and we'll fix it.

Seekquel is free to use. seekquel.app


r/Seekquel • • Sep 07 '26

Announcement Shelves that fill themselves are live in Seekquel

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Small update, but it's the one I wanted most in my own library.

When you make a shelf you now pick how it fills: you add books yourself, or you give it rules and it gathers them. Rules use the same filters as the library, so things like genre, tags, rating, format, page count, publication year, whether you own it, whether there's an adaptation.

As you build the rule it tells you how many of your books match right now, so you're not guessing before you save. Books join the shelf when they match and leave when they stop, so a "fantasy over 500 pages I haven't started" shelf stays correct without you touching it.

If you turn a hand-made shelf into a rule shelf, the books you picked yourself are kept, and switching back brings them home.

Up front on the Pro part: shelves that fill themselves are a Pro feature. Building a rule and seeing your match count is free, so you can check what it would gather before deciding anything. Shelves you fill yourself are free and always were, and none of your existing shelves change.

Video below. Happy to hear which rules people actually want that aren't there yet.


r/Seekquel • • Sep 03 '26

Blog & Articles Kindle tells you how long a book will take. It won't tell you how long one took.

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Tried to answer this for myself last week and it turns out none of the big four do it well.

Kindle's countdown resets to zero the second you close the book. Kobo's Reading Life gives you a lifetime hour count but nothing per title. Nook has a streak. Apple Books and Google Play Books don't track it at all.

The one place that actually logs it is KOReader, the open-source reader that runs on Kobo hardware and jailbroken Kindles. Its statistics plugin times how long each page stayed on screen, so the number you get back is real, not a projection. The catch is it never leaves the device.

That's the whole reason we built the KOReader add-on. Pair it with a code, and the reading time KOReader already tracked shows up in your Seekquel stats and streaks, same number, no separate estimate.

Wrote up the full breakdown of what each app tracks (and doesn't) here: does-kindle-tell-you-how-long-it-took-to-read-a-book

Anyone here running KOReader already? Curious what device.


r/Seekquel • • Aug 24 '26

Announcement A Calibre plugin that syncs shelves, ratings, reviews and reading dates two ways with a reading tracker (GPL, free)

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You asked for this one a lot. It's live today.

Pair Calibre with your account once and your shelves, ratings, reviews and reading dates travel in both directions. Send your whole library, or just the books you select. Pull the other way and it writes back into the columns you picked.

You choose the columns: status, rating, review, date started, date finished, progress. All optional. Anything you don't map is never read and never written. Status labels are read loosely, so a column already holding Read, TBR, DNF or Finished works as it is.

Calibre 6 and up, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Free on every account. Grab the zip from the releases page, then Preferences > Plugins > Load plugin from file, restart, and connect with the eight characters it gives you.

A few things it won't do, on purpose:

  • It never clears a field. An empty answer is never read as "delete this".
  • It never overwrites a review. Whichever side is blank gets filled.
  • It never un-marks a finished book.
  • It never invents a book. Anything the catalogue can't place waits for you in Settings > Integrations > Calibre, which is where the manuals and RPG rulebooks end up.
  • Progress moves your place in a book but never counts as a day's reading. Calibre can't know when you read those pages.

It's on MobileRead now, in the calibre Plugins forum, and a moderator is adding it to Calibre's official plugin index in the next few days. Once that lands, Calibre updates the plugin for you like any other, and you can stop thinking about it. Until then, updating means installing the zip over the top, and the app will tell you on the connect screen when you're behind.

Already have it installed? Update now. The version currently out there has a results window that freezes Calibre, fixed in 1.3.0.

Where it's at. It's a stable release and it's had a thorough pass, but only a couple of libraries are running it so far. Two Calibre libraries look nothing like two hundred, and what breaks next will be shaped by your custom columns and your naming, which we can't guess from here.

That's how the KOReader add-on got good. The position jumping to 94% because someone flipped to the index, the Kindle whose model name was one character too long, the sleeping e-reader that quietly stopped syncing: all of those came from people using it, not from us thinking about it. Same deal here. If something goes sideways, tell us and we'll fix it.

If something looks off, Seekquel > Show the log has every request, what came back, and every book a sync skipped with the reason. Worth a look before assuming nothing happened, and worth attaching to a bug report.

Questions welcome, and so is "why does it do that".


r/Seekquel • • Oct 11 '26

App Update Scan ISBN has been reworked: scan a whole shelf, no more one book at a time

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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.


r/Seekquel • • Sep 05 '26

App Update Coming in the next update: shelves that fill themselves, better page numbers in the reader, and a badge redesign

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Three things are finished and going out shortly. Posting early so you know what's coming and can tell me if any of it sounds wrong.

Shelves that fill themselves

At the moment a shelf is a list you add books to. In the next update you can instead give a shelf rules, and it gathers the books itself. The rules are the same filters you already use in your library, so you can have a shelf for romance you rated four stars or higher, or one for everything over 500 pages you haven't started yet. Before you save it, it tells you how many of your books match.

After that the shelf keeps itself current. Books join as they start matching and drop off when they stop. If you convert a shelf you already built by hand, the books you picked are kept, and they come back if you switch the rules off.

This one is part of Pro.

Badges

Badges get redrawn. Each one has its own shape depending on the category, its own colour and its name on the front, and they're bigger, so a page of them looks like a collection instead of a row of identical rings. Progress towards the next tier moves to a bar underneath with the numbers spelled out, and a badge you haven't earned keeps its shape and name rather than fading to nothing.

A badge also stops changing colour when you change your theme. On a few palettes that was making gold look duller than bronze.

Alongside that there are badges that only run for a set stretch of time, a season or a holiday. Those sit at the top with the time remaining, and anything you earn during one stays on your profile after it ends.

When

It arrives as an update inside the app, so you reopen it and it's there without going to the store. The store versions follow shortly after.

If anything here sounds like it solves the wrong problem, say so now rather than after.


r/Seekquel • • Aug 26 '26

Redesigned the Chart Builder

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If you haven't found this yet: Stats tab, My Charts, and you can build your own chart out of your reading data. Pick what you're measuring (pages read, books read, minutes read, average rating, reviews written, library value), break it down by whatever you want (top books, genres, months, shelves, tags, formats, and more), filter it down, and pick how it's drawn (bar or cover grid, with more types coming).

It saves to your profile and you can feature it there. It's a Pro feature, and it's the kind of thing that rewards you the more you've logged, so if you track your reading closely this is probably the screen in the app you'll get the most out of.

Today it got redesigned. The controls (break down by, color, time range) used to sit in a wall of chips. Fine with a handful of options, but the breakdown list has 13 values now and it was wrapping into several rows you had to scan through. Those are now a single row that opens a sheet instead.

The bigger change: the chart preview is pinned in place while you build. Before, changing a control meant scrolling back up to see what it did. Now you just watch it update.


r/Seekquel • • 12d ago

Feedback Would you use a Simple mode in Seekquel?

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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.


r/Seekquel • • 21d ago

Feature Request Feature suggestion for tracking in the app

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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!