🚀 CPR-vCodex Steroids — Dev Build 1.5.0.23-dev3

What's new in this build?
A big stability and performance pass: the home screen is snappier, highlights work the moment you make them, the dictionary and Wikipedia apps are polished, and the reader's font cache is far more memory-friendly.
Plus a behind-the-scenes cleanup that makes the whole app feel tighter and more reliable.

✨ Highlights

🏠 Home Screen — Faster & Cleaner

• Carousel is now instant after reading — book covers and stats panels cache properly, so jumping back to Home after a session no longer triggers a slow full redraw.
• Global stats panel widened — "Today", "Average", and "Trend" rows have more breathing room and align cleanly.
• Book stats panel tuned — kept cozy on both X3 and X4 screens so nothing feels cramped.

🖍️ Highlights & Clippings — Work Instantly

• New highlights show up immediately — if you mark a passage and stay on the same page, the highlight appears right away instead of waiting for you to reopen the book.
• Highlight rendering is more stable — fixes rare cases where a highlight could look garbled or blurry right after saving.
• Clipping system uses less memory — the internal word cache is now more efficient and won't fragment the device's limited RAM during long reading sessions.

📚 Reader — Smoother Page Turns

• Font cache survives longer — glyphs stay cached across the full page render, so repeated page turns in the same book are noticeably faster and more fluid.
• Less heap churn — the reader now recycles its font cache intelligently, avoiding the slow-down that used to creep in after 10–15 pages.
• Smarter low-memory fallback — on very tight memory, the reader gracefully falls back instead of stuttering.

🌐 Wikipedia & Dictionary

• Wikipedia pages list again — after a recent SDK update, the cached pages view had gone missing; it's back and working.
• Dictionary word selector cleaned up — removed an unused side strip and progress bar that was cluttering the lookup screen.

🗄️ Store Layer — More Robust

• Centralized store access — all persistent data (favorites, recent books, reading stats, flashcards, achievements, hidden books) now flows through a single, consistent manager.
• Reload tracking added — the app now knows when a store needs a refresh, preventing stale reads and unnecessary reloads.
• Safer memory cleanup — reading-summary data is released at the right moment, so the post-read summary screen renders correctly without losing book data prematurely.

🐛 Bug Fixes

⚡ Performance

• Home navigation: carousel frames cache at ~96 ms instead of full ~1800 ms renders
• Reader page turns: fewer heap allocations per page, smoother on ESP32-C3
• Highlight rendering: cache persists across frames, no rebuild lag
• Memory footprint: clipping and reader caches use fixed buffers instead of repeated heap alloc/free cycles

🔧 Technical Notes

• All fixes validated against ESP32-C3 (320 KB RAM) constraints
• default and gh_release builds pass successfully
• No user-facing settings changes — all improvements are automatic
• Dictionary and Wikipedia fixes include updated Steroids alignment docs

📦 Version

1.5.0.23-dev3-cpr-vcodex-steroids
Built on: 2026-09-07
Base: e3ca84fea729c9d6746b74c1a6d10924358673e1

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