Summary
Stable release of this fork, now built on CrossInk v1.6.0.
From CrossInk, this brings among others Xteink X4 Classic support, renaming files from the File Browser (reading progress, bookmarks and clippings follow the renamed book), a configurable precision for the book progress percentage, a toggle for two-finger rotation, "Go to Stable Page" for EPUBs optimized with Inky, frontlight settings that survive silent restarts, and fixes for Quick Lock, clippings with Focus Reading and several crashes. See the CrossInk v1.6.0 notes for the full list.
If you are coming from v1.5.0+bookorbit.2 or from CrossInk, read the v1.5.1+bookorbit.1 notes first — they cover the removal of KOReader Sync, the reduced built-in fonts, and the BookOrbit Sync shortcut that has to be picked again once.
Installing
This is a stable release: on a device already running this fork (v1.5.1+bookorbit.1 or newer), Settings → System → Check for Updates installs it over the air.
A device running CrossInk has to be flashed once by USB or from the SD card — see the installation guide, which also covers USB-locked devices and reverting to upstream. Pick the file for your device:
| Device | File |
|---|---|
| Xteink X3 / X4 | firmware-x3-x4-v1.6.0-bookorbit.1.bin
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| Xteink X4 Pro | firmware-x4-pro-v1.6.0-bookorbit.1.bin
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| Xteink X4 Classic | firmware-x4-classic-v1.6.0-bookorbit.1.bin
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| Seeed reTerminal Sticky | firmware-sticky-v1.6.0-bookorbit.1.bin
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[!WARNING]
I do not own an X4 Pro or an X4 Classic. The X4 Classic build is untested.
What's Changed since v1.5.1+bookorbit.2
Catalog
- SmartScopes are now shown (#78), alongside Collections, Libraries, Authors and Series, badged with how many scopes you have.
- A book already on the device opens when selected (#82), instead of being downloaded again.
- Holding a book opens an action menu (#82) — hold Confirm, or long-press on touch devices. A book not yet on the device offers Download; one already on it offers Open, Re-download and Delete. Re-downloading replaces the book in place, so its reading progress is kept, and the old copy stays until the new one has fully arrived (could be useful if your file was corrupted).
- Audiobook-only records are no longer listed (#81) in browsing and search. Books available in both formats are still listed, and the "All books", "Recently added" and "Continue reading" counts now count only EPUBs.
- "Continue reading" lists only the books you are reading, as its count says, instead of the whole library sorted by recent reading.
- Downloads stay marked as on the device after a rename or a move, including the rename added in CrossInk v1.6.0 and the end-of-book move to a read folder. The catalog used to lose track of them and offer them for download again.
Sync
- Bookmarks and highlights sent to BookOrbit point at the exact character they start on. They used to point one character past it, and a bookmark on the first character of a paragraph fell back to the whole paragraph.
- Reading positions coming from BookOrbit land on the right words in paragraphs containing HTML comments, including positions synced by a KOReader device.
- BookOrbit Sync from the reader menu without an account set up opens the BookOrbit settings, like the shortcut already did, instead of doing nothing.
Security
- The BookOrbit login no longer follows a redirect to another server. The catalog's authentication headers now stay with your BookOrbit server, while the redirect itself is still followed.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/agosez/CrossInk-Bookorbit/compare/v1.5.1+bookorbit.2...v1.6.0+bookorbit.1