Bookworm Release v2022.1 Alpha 2

Fully featured, Fast, Accessible. Choose any three!

New Features

1. Bookworm Bookshelf

Imagine all of your eBooks in one place. Imagine you can categorize and tag your eBooks. Imagine you can perform fast full-text-search queries against your entire eBook collection.

Well, you don't need to imagine, because you have all of that and much much more in the BRAND NEW BOOKWORM BOOKSHELF.

Bookworm Bookshelf helps you to collect all of your books in one place. Regardless of the format or type, it allows you to work with your books in a unified way. After adding books to the bookshelf, you can open those books either in Bookworm or in the system's default viewer. Thus the Bookshelf could be used in combination with Bookworm, or as a standalone application as a general eBook library manager.

In future releases, we plan to add more providers to Bookworm Bookshelf including Book Share, Dropbox, and Pocket. Thus you have the ability to manage your documents in the same way regardless of the source of your eBooks.

2. Support for links and internal anchors

In this release we enabled access to links for all document formats, just press Ctrl+k and Ctrl+shift+k to jump between links, or use the element list. Didn't we tell you? we've added an element list for easier access to structural elements within documents.

External links are identified and supported in all document formats, where internal anchors are supported in EPUB, Word (.docx), and HTML documents.

3. Bookworm Web Viewer

The brand new Bookworm Web Viewer helps you to read EPUB files in your default web browser, enabling you to view and interact with content not available in the default textual view. For instance you may need to play videos or interact with math content embedded within the publication. The web viewer experience is powered by the fully accessible Readium EPUB Reader

Other new features

• New parser for EPUB files that is faster and more compatible with the majority of EPUBs in the whiled
• EPUBs are now viewed in a continuous mode, as oppose to paginated mode
• Added Element list dialog for viewing and jumping between structural elements (e.g. links, lists, headings..etc)
• Added Document Info dialog for viewing information about the currently opened document
• Added French language to bookworm by @MichelSuch in #76
• Added the option to start Bookworm as a maximized window

Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Improved startup time
• Reduced memory usage by about 100 MB
• The above two fixes make Bookworm faster and efficient
• Fixed some internationalization issues related to Arabic and Chinese
• Fixed a bug related to opening PDF files with non-Latin locale file names
• Many minor bug fixes
• Stability improvements for existing features

Full Changelog: Bookworm-Release-(Build-v1.0.83)...Bookworm-Release-(Build-v1.0.128)

New Contributors

• @MichelSuch made their first contribution in #76

Licence

Bookworm is now licensed under the GPL v2.

A word of caution

This release is an alpha release, bugs should be expected.