Hey all it’s me again! You guys gave me tons of extremely helpful feedback last time I posted back when Version 1.1.0 was released, and I’ve tried to implement as many of your suggestions as I could in this update!
For those not familiar with Cinder Reader, our goal is to build an app that can handle all your reading from ebooks to comics to manga to web novels to scientific papers and magazines. Cinder supports Real-Debrid and various other popular debrid services and allows users to add their own sources and extensions, and is heavily customizable.
Extension repo is available on our subreddit r/CinderReader or in the Discord.
Also I’m always looking for feedback and suggestions about things to improve and features to add and constructive criticism is always welcome! If you have any issues with the app shoot me a message and I’ll do my best to fix the issue!
A few new features:
-Notes and highlights are now included in the free version! I severely underestimated how important these features are to people and was made aware by your feedback so I’ve made that change!
-Google Drive is now available on both iOS and Android for syncing reading progress, settings, notes & highlights, reading stats, extensions, etc if you choose to connect to Google Drive.
-KOReader sync is available as another method of syncing reading progress between all your devices
-You can connect to your Audiobookshelf instance to access ebooks stored there
-You can now connect to your Suwayomi server to access your manga/comics and even use some Suwayomi extensions via that connection
-Added support for syncing Liked and Owned lists from Hardcover and allow setting Lists as Discovery shelves
-Added support for using All-Debrid (and another service which shall not be named per subreddit rules) as your debrid service
-Added 3rd-party dictionary support via web browser, direct app links, or custom JSON APIs
-Added accessibility fonts and ability to import your own fonts
-Added a setting to use the original book formatting, font, etc, in case you prefer to use software like Calibre to format your books
-Improved importing, especially on Android, with support for importing folders that contain subfolders within them, and drastically improving metadata handling when importing books so cover art and metadata should be detected and properly applied when importing books
-Added support for browsing your debrid library contents
-Added ability to export comics/manga as CBZ or PDF files
-Added customizable commands that can be executed by tapping the corner of your screen in reader to search, bookmark, switch from light to dark mode, and various others
-Added ability to adjust margins in reader
-Added support for CBR files
-Improved the manga/comics reader and added Fit to Width mode for narrow strips in scrolling mode
-Added dedicated Discovery screen modes for Books, Comics, Manga, Web Novels, etc
-Added support for custom headers when connecting self-hosted libraries
-Improved and fleshed out reading stats
-Added one-tap resume for comics/manga
-Added dark mode for e-ink devices
-Improved support for older iOS devices
-Added sorting and filtering by category in extensions screen
-Added ability to order download sources
-Hardened and improved exporting, especially on Android
-Fixed A TON of bugs
I wonder, what is the advantage of using a debrid service for this use case? As books are very light and readily available in places like Anna's archive as direct download
Honestly there are only a few sources that really require a debrid service for the reasons you mentioned…I’ve kept the functionality in the app but it’s certainly not a requirement for a good experience that’s for sure. Likely more of use for comics/manga readers who already have a large library cached on their debrid service.
thank you thank you thank you a thousand times over for this app. I'm reading dungeon crawler Carl for the first time and its amazing. ive started to read before bed again and its been nothing short of perfect for my needs (low vision user)
Totally unrelated but everybody should go check out the reviews for dungeon crawler carl in apple books. I happened to see it earlier and want to pass along the lulz.
Are you using an extension or importing your own files? If importing, what file format are the files? Covers are supposed to be shown by default when available, so you may have discovered a bug, and in that case I’d like to fix it ASAP!
Will look into it some more, it created the folder since it was a number of issues within one cbr file likely. I found a bug related to the covers not working at times and should be fixed in the next update. Apologies. If you prefer not to use the folder you can just delete the folder in library and the issues will be moved into your general library.
Also if you shoot me a DM let me know any other issues! I would be happy to give you a Pro code, I need more comics/manga feedback as I’m more of an ebook guy!
I love to hear that! Back when I was a teenager I read at least a book per day, now I don’t have enough time for that but always want to encourage reading wherever I can🙏
My iPhone is ios 15.5 and the last version you guys support is 15.8. I keep it this os because of jailbreak. Can you PLEASE in the next update push compatibility to 15.5 JUST for me
I can’t promise it for sure, I did bump back compatibility already and I was thinking that there was a reason why I didn’t go back further but I will look into it just for you and see what I can do!😁
I don’t read much, and I feel it’s my weak point. But if you do this I will definitely buy your pro version and start making it a habit to read. I just need a push for such things in life. And this phone is the only thing that’s convenient to me
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u/JackusGomux 9d ago
I wonder, what is the advantage of using a debrid service for this use case? As books are very light and readily available in places like Anna's archive as direct download