github blindpandas/bookworm 2026.2a2

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What's Changed

Localization Updates

Features & Enhancements

  • Improved standalone message and table windows, including content wrapping, keyboard actions, copying, external links, table titles, and cleanup on exit, by @cary-rowen (#400)
  • Added an option to include images with empty alternative text in image navigation by @cary-rowen (#395)
  • Improved embedded image viewer keyboard handling and close shortcuts by @cary-rowen (#396)

Reading, Speech & OCR

  • Improved OneCore voice selection, language switching, continuous reading across pages and chapters, highlighting, playback, and saved voice profile restoration by @cary-rowen (#401)
  • Improved continuous reading with automatic OCR by preparing following pages and waiting for recognition when needed, by @cary-rowen (#402)
  • Updated the Windows OCR implementation while preserving recognized text line breaks by @cary-rowen (#403)

Document Handling & Navigation

  • Fixed saved reading position restoration for bookshelf documents by @cary-rowen (#391)
  • Preserved the current reading position when focusing the table of contents by @cary-rowen (#392)

Dependency & Tooling Updates

New Contributors

Full Changelog: 2026.2a1...2026.2a2

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