Version 3.8.9 (Apr 19, 2025)

• Library rescan no longer runs automatically at startup. You can restore the previous behaviour in the “Library” section of the preferences

• Android 9 and earlier: “Force SAF for file access” option

• LitRes: fixed detection of local file presence

• Background services: improved stability and reliability

Version 3.8.8 (Apr 7, 2025)

• Fixed file access issues affecting certain devices

• Notifications permission is no longer required

• Improved Chinese localisations

• Android 9 and earlier: old folder selection dialogue is used

• Resolved several crashes specific to Honor devices

Version 3.8.6 (Mar 20, 2025)

• Fixed opening files from third-party apps

• fb2.zip: fixed access to books with non-ascii archive entry names

• PDFs: zoom does not conflict with the navigation panel

• Performance improvements

• Premium-only: dark blue theme

Version 3.8.4 (Mar 14, 2025)

• Fixed book metainfo saving

Version 3.8.2 (Mar 11, 2025)

• Fixes file access issues from 3.8/3.8.1. Please read the guide if you still encounter problems

• Improves app performance

Version 3.8.1 (Mar 4, 2025)

• Network Library: performance optimisation

• Fixed sporadic reading position rollback issue

• Text search popup: new button to return to the current reading position

Version 3.8 (Feb 24, 2025)

• FBReader no longer requires “all files” access

• UI themes: blue (new default theme), classic (for old school users) and black-and-white (optimised for eink devices)

• FBReader is now fully compatible with eink devices

• Dynamic colour profiles: colours adapt based on the device's theme. Optionally, you can disable “Follow system theme” in the Appearance settings

• Reading aloud: added support for custom text substitution tables

• ePub3: implemented support for table of contents in XHTML navigation format

• For plain text files, the beginning of the text is now used as the book title

• Next/previous chapter jump buttons on the navigation panel

• PDF navigation panel thumbnails can be hidden

Version 3.7.7 (Oct 28, 2024)

• Fixed mixup between PDF and other formats tables of contents

• Fixed PDF file type detection (was broken for some files)

• Minor UI improvements

Version 3.7.6 (Sep 23, 2024)

• CSS-defined colours behaviour in the dark mode is better

• The pan gesture in zoomed image browsing mode works again

• Images are never displayed with a size larger than the page size

• Improved opening books from Gmail attachments

• The app shows the selection popup closer to the selected text

Version 3.7.5 (Aug 30, 2024)

• Added SVG images support

• Minor fixes in CSS processing related to colours and images

Version 3.7.4 (Jul 24, 2024)

• UI tweaks: better behaviour during screen rotation

• Fixed possible crash in reading mode on Android 5.*

• Fixed possible issues with opening LCPL files

Version 3.7.3 (Jul 15, 2024)

• FBReader displays book covers even if these covers are encrypted

• Fixed multi-book archives support

• Added optional usage statistics collection; the app will show a consent dialogue

• Radaee PDF library updated to the version 3.65.28

• Minor UI tweaks in horizontal mode

Version 3.7.2 (Jun 25, 2024)

• Fixes in the support of encrypted ePubs

Version 3.7.1 (Jun 18, 2024)

• Slovenian localisation

• Network connection timeout reduced to two seconds

• The ВсеНаука catalogue has been removed as it is, unfortunately, permanently down

• Fixed possible crash on start on some Honor devices

• Fixed possible freezes

Version 3.7.0 (May 17, 2024)

• Added Readium LCP support

• Updated Ukrainian localisation

Version 3.6.3 (Mar 26, 2024)

• Stability fix

Version 3.6.2 (Mar 25, 2024)

• Google Translate integration improvements

• Minor UI tweaks in the library view

• Stability improvements

Version 3.6.0 (Feb 7, 2024)

• Internal change: the libzip library is used for opening zip files

• New library view: cards

• In the list library view the app optionally shows the authors list for each book

• Minor UI fixes

• The target API level is raised to 34 (Android 14)

Version 3.5.5 (Dec 18, 2023)

• New appearance option: “Neglect screen notches”

• The app does not store wrong reading per cent anymore

• The footer is visible over the reading-aloud panel (you optionally can switch to the old behaviour)

• The old-style footer option is back

• Fixed processing of font lists in CSS (only the first item of the list was used previously)

• Fixed popup position on the screen: the system panels do not overlap the popups

• Fixed saving position after the end of continuous scrolling; sometimes, there was a one-line inaccuracy

Version 3.5.4 (Nov 23, 2023)

• Monochrome launcher icon for modern Androids

• Better detection of language for hyphenations

• Fixed continuous scrolling on some old devices

• Misc UI fixes and improvements

Version 3.5.3 (Nov 10, 2023)

• Redesigned “Appearance” preferences section

• Misc UI fixes and improvements

Version 3.5.2 (Nov 3, 2023)

• Fixed possible crash in the network library during opening a downloaded book

• Fixed menu layout if the action bar is always shown

• TTS+ plugin integration works better

Version 3.5.1 (Oct 31, 2023)

• Redesigned “Page turning & text scrolling” preferences section

• Customisable tap zones

• Vertical page turning is back

• Better fullscreen appearance on Android 9 devices

• Fixed possible crash in the voice selection

• Fixed book encoding issues; changing encoding in the book info dialogue works again

• Fixed opening book from download notification

Version 3.5 (Oct 25, 2023)

• Series 3.5 works on Android 5.0 and higher

• Major update of the text rendering engine, including

    • Continuous text scrolling, by vertical finger slide

    • CSS-defined colours support

    • Rendering for all the Unicode characters

    • Special tweaks for eink devices

    • Multiple fixes and improvements

• Better support for newer devices and newer OS versions, including Android 14

• Fixed library folder re-scan on devices with Android 11+

• Fixed the “accidentally reopening the previous book” bug

• The app opens password-protected PDFs

• The app notifications are split into several channels; you can enable or disable the channels separately

Version 3.1.9 (Aug 25, 2023)

• On Android 13 the app requests the notifications permission

Version 3.1.8 (Aug 22, 2023)

• FBReader is suggested for opening any file from Samsung standard file manager

• API 33 (Android 13) is now the main target

Version 3.1.7 (Jun 19, 2023)

• Radaee PDF library upgraded to 3.65.27

Version 3.1.6 (May 8, 2023)

• Radaee PDF library upgraded to 3.65.25

• This version fixes few errors in network catalogues

Version 3.1.5 (Mar 28, 2023)

• Radaee PDF library rolled back to 3.53.2

• Minor fixes

Version 3.1.4 (Feb 4, 2023)

• Fixed possible crash in PDF view

• Minor UI fixes

• HTTP is replaced with HTTPS where possible

Version 3.1.3 (Jan 29, 2023)

• Quick fix: no crash on old Android devices

Version 3.1.2 (Jan 27, 2023)

• Minor fixes in reading aloud

• Minor UI changes

Version 3.1.1 (Dec 31, 2022)

• Fixed position storing after reading aloud

Version 3.1 (Dec 27, 2022)

• New interface for reading aloud

• Saving/restoring settings feature

• Fixed saving issue for books with ':' in the title

• Fixed crash on Samsung and OnePlus devices with Android 13

Version 3.0.39 (Dec 1, 2022)

• Fixed few Android 12 specific issues

Version 3.0.38 (Nov 22, 2022)

• Fixed crash in predefined backgrounds selection dialogue

• Fixed possible crash in network operations

• API 31 (Android 12) is now the main target

Version 3.0.37 (Oct 27, 2022)

• Fixed navigation button issues on Android 11 and higher

• Added detailed message regarding new permission request

• Bookmarks sync: the app works with styles added in the desktop version

Version 3.0.36 (Oct 22, 2022)

• Compatibility with Android 12 and newer

• Works on Android 4.4 and newer

• Broken Yandex translator replaced with DeepL

• Radaee PDF library updated to version 3.65.21

Version 3.0.35 (Apr 14, 2021)

• Fixed garbage text issue in some HTML and mobi files

• Added free catalogue of popular science books Vsenauka.ru (books in Russian)

Version 3.0.34 (Apr 7, 2021)

• Fixed performance issue in mobi file loading

• The parser is more tolerant to non-well formed XML

Version 3.0.33 (Mar 25, 2021)

• Fixed possible crash during scanning wrong-formatted books

• Restored catalogue “Rational thinking” (in Russian)

Version 3.0.32 (Feb 25, 2021)

• Fixed opening files from external file managers

Version 3.0.31 (Feb 18, 2021)

• Fixed downloading books with long file names

Version 3.0.30 (Jan 18, 2021)

• Fixed “missing table of contents” issue

Version 3.0.29 (Dec 24, 2020)

• Resolved conflict with the system dark theme on some devices

• Minor fixes in the network library and the text-to-speech logic

Version 3.0.28 (Dec 6, 2020)

• Better detection of unsuccessfully downloaded books

• More clear error messages

• Fixed “black screen” issue when brightness is lower than 25%. Increase “min screen brightness” level in “Appearance” section of the settings dialogue, if you experience the issue

Version 3.0.27 (Nov 24, 2020)

• Minor text formatting fixes

• Improved TTS stability

Version 3.0.26 (Nov 10, 2020)

• Fixed current book saving issue

Version 3.0.25 (Aug 31, 2020)

• Urgent change: Yandex.Translate temporary replaced with Google.Translate

Version 3.0.22 (Dec 24, 2019)

• Fixed cloud authentication for devices with no Google Services

Version 3.0.21 (Dec 19, 2019)

• Fixed possible crash on first start (in library transfer code)

• Fixed possible failure in uploading books to the cloud

Version 3.0.20 (Dec 8, 2019)

• Fixed PDF page autocrop

Version 3.0.19 (Nov 26, 2019)

• Text-to-speech: fixed “missing words/sentences” issue when reading with default settings

Version 3.0.18 (Nov 15, 2019)

• PDF: better (and faster) calculation of page crop

• Radaee PDF library updated to version 3.52.5 (from 3.50)

Version 3.0.17 (Sep 19, 2019)

• CSS style processing change: the app treats 1px in CSS as 1dp (device independent point)

• CSS style processing change: the app respects manual zoom in/out even if CSS font size is fixed

• Fixed LitRes account authorisation issue

Version 3.0.16 (Aug 30, 2019)

• Fixed possible issue with saving reading position in PDFs and comics

• Text search performance optimisation

• New option: bottom footer margin (for devices with hidden screen pixels)

• Minor library improvements

Version 3.0.15 (Jul 5, 2019)

• Fixed back button behaviour in local and network libraries

• Fixed saving of bookmarks search pattern

Version 3.0.14 (Jun 28, 2019)

• Fixed possible issue in listing LitRes catalogue content

• Security fixes

Version 3.0.12 (May 31, 2019)

• New features and fixes in reading aloud, including reading time limit

• Blue icon background on Android 8.1 and higher

• Few interface strings fixes

Version 3.0.11 (May 5, 2019)

• LitRes catalogue: better processing for in-book links

• Performance tweaks

Version 3.0.10 (Apr 29, 2019)

• Library view: old style file tree enabled by default (it can be disabled in the library settings)

• LitRes catalogue: sortings for “My books” folder are back

• Performance tweaks

Version 3.0.9 (Apr 22, 2019)

• Fixed some performance issues in classic library view

• Fixed possible crash during authorisation in LitRes network catalogue

Version 3.0.8 (Apr 9, 2019)

• Fixed opening external files via file picker

• Few improvements in LitRes network catalogue

Version 3.0.7 (Apr 5, 2019)

• Fixed missing books and shelves issue in the library view

• Better support for opening MS Word files from external file managers

Version 3.0.6 (Apr 2, 2019)

• Fixed crash on devices with blocked background processes

• Fixed issues with opening books from the file picker

• Fixed possible background battery consuming in library

• Text-to-speech: fixed issues in voice selection dialogue

• PDF/comics: fixed issue with inter-column space

Version 3.0.5 (Mar 25, 2019)

• Regular library scanning has gone. Use the “Rescan” menu item if you want to update the library content

• Fixed misc library-related issues

Version 3.0.4 (Mar 18, 2019)

• Fixed bookmark editing issue

• Fixed rare app crash during hyphenation

• Text-to-speech: voices that require a network connection are disabled by default

Version 3.0.3 (Mar 14, 2019)

• Restored communication with third-party TTS+ plugin

• Removed BETA badge from the launcher icon

• Updated Ukrainian localisation

Version 3.0 (Mar 12, 2019)

• Built-in reading aloud module

• Background library and config services have gone

• New version of LitRes store catalogue

• File picker

• New Chinese localisation

• Misc fixes

Version 2.9.5 (Dec 9, 2018)

• More stability fixes

Version 2.9.4 (Nov 23, 2018)

• Better line breaking for texts with complex punctuation

• Stability fixes backported from beta 3.0

Version 2.9.2 (Oct 10, 2018)

• Fixed text search related issues

Version 2.9.1 (Sep 20, 2018)

• Fixed flash effect during page turning in “dark screen” mode

Version 2.9 (Sep 18, 2018)

• This version requires Android 4.1 or higher

• Fixed page turning issues: possible animation freezes and missing pages

• Fixed notification issues on new Android devices

• Fixed cover choice for some fb2 files

• Android Go: fixed possible crash during synchronisation

Version 2.8.13 (Aug 21, 2018)

• Fixed the battery drain issue, a.k.a. continuous “FBReader runs in background”/“FBReader is using battery” notification issue

• Updated Czech localisation

Version 2.8.12 (Aug 13, 2018)

• Fixed background sync issue on Android 8 devices

Version 2.8.11 (Jun 28, 2018)

• The app opens fb2.zip files from Telegram

• Fixed adaptive icon on some devices

• The app ignores more XML errors, opens more “incorrect” files

• Better comics support: the app detects archive type by the file content instead of extension

• Fixed LitRes registration issues

• Updated Belarusian localisation

Version 2.8.10 (Apr 2, 2018)

• Fixed XHTML entities support broken in 2.8.9

Version 2.8.9 (Mar 29, 2018)

• The app ignores some XML errors in fb2 and ePub books

• The app opens books from Chrome downloads and some file managers

• Scaled (bigger) images on hi-res screens

• Better pattern for “Hard paper” background

• Added “display:none” CSS property support

• Fixed fb2 images support

• Fixed crash on some mobi books

• Preferences: fixed error on changing the background colour to white

• Minor fixes

Version 2.8.8 (Dec 26, 2017)

• Fixed CSS processing for some Calibre-generated ePubs

• Fixed twitter icon issue

• Separate build for arm64 processor architecture

Version 2.8.7 (Dec 1, 2017)

• Full compatibility with Android 8.* and Android Go

• Adaptive launcher icon for newest devices

• Minor fixes

Version 2.8.5 (Sep 29, 2017)

• Fixed performance issue for devices with high-resolution screens

• Better backgrounds for high-resolution screens

• New default background “Paper” (taken from the iOS version). Old default “Sand”, as well as the free version default “Sepia”, is available to select in “Colours & Wallpapers” section of the Settings dialogue

• Radaee PDF library updated to version 3.14 (from 3.9)

• Fixed minor formatting issues

• Updated Belarusian and Czech localisations

Version 2.8.4 (Sep 15, 2017)

• Fixed issue with upgrade from versions older than 2.7

• Fixed double tap processing in reading mode

• Fixed text style logic for MOBI files with embedded CSS

Version 2.8.3 (Jul 25, 2017)

• Fixed mysterious bug in license checking

Version 2.8.2 (Jul 1, 2017)

• Fixed library scanning issues for large book collections

• Fixed format detection for “incorrect” (not fully conformed to the standard) ePub files

• Fixed background FBReader Book Network sign-in (for synchronisation)

• Fixed margin-top and margin-bottom CSS properties processing

Version 2.8.1 (Jun 27, 2017)

• Better MS Word document format detection

• FBReader does not scan apk/jar archives in library folder anymore

Version 2.8 (Jun 23, 2017)

• New default text styles set

• New default bookshelf look: covers only

• New Google authentication dialogue (for synchronisation)

• Automatic book format detection

• PDF, comics: autocrop is enabled by default

• CSS: added multiclass selectors support

• Updated Polish and Portuguese localisations

Version 2.7.15 (Apr 28, 2017)

• Fixed nested table of contents regression introduced in 2.7.14

• Fixed possible issue with screen sleeping prevention

• Fixed “Search” item behaviour in the network library

• Updated Polish localisation

• New option to select where to tap to scroll page forward/back

Version 2.7.14 (Apr 14, 2017)

• New style web authentication for devices with no Google Services (Google blocks obsolete authentication for security reasons)

• Better support for widescreen smartphones (like Galaxy S8, LG G6)

• Fixed performance issues for some books

• Fixed table of contents reading for some ePub files

Version 2.7.13 (Mar 30, 2017)

• Fixed misc sync issues

Version 2.7.12 (Feb 17, 2017)

• Fixed sync issue introduced in 2.7.11 (books upload to the cloud was broken)

• Misc UI and network performance tweaks

Version 2.7.11 (Feb 11, 2017)

• New bookmarks list features:

    • “Order bookmarks” button

    • Page numbers

    • Live search

• Restored ColorDict3-compatible dictionaries support

• Fixed SNI (https protocol extension) support

• Fixed folder settings issue

• Fixed possible crash in footer rendering

Version 2.7.10 (Jan 27, 2017)

• Misc performance optimisations

• Fixed LitRes basket issue

• Fixed background settings issue (does not reset background to default sporadically)

• FBReader does not try to scan file again after error. No recurrent “FBReader has been stopped” messages more.

Version 2.7.9 (Dec 30, 2016)

• New offline dictionaries support: NGHS, Livio

• Dictionary settings update: to use GoldenDict dictionaries, select GodenDict in settings, not ColorDict 3

• Fixed crash on some mobi files

• Classic library view: fixed top-level directories content issue

• Updated Armenian, Czech, Japanese, and Portuguese localisations

• Added (partial) Urdu localisation

Version 2.7.8 (Nov 16, 2016)

• Fixed “FBReader has been stopped” issue (in library/PDF scanning)

• UI tweaks

• “Storage access denied” dialogue

Version 2.7.6/2.7.7 (Oct 26, 2016)

• Fixed PDF and *.fb2.zip bugs introduced in 2.7.5

• No file change notification for files outside the book folders

• Fixed CSS support: margins before and after paragraphs

• Fixed possible crash in file chooser

• Fixed possible crash when used with Google Now On Tap

Version 2.7.5 (Oct 21, 2016)

• Misc speed optimisations

• Updated Basque and Romanian localisations

Version 2.7.4 (Oct 7, 2016)

• New colour preference look

• No file change notification for plain text files

• Fixed DjVu plugin background settings

• Updated Czech and Portuguese localisations

Version 2.7.3 (Sep 25, 2016)

• Fixed saving of current reading position

• Fixed battery level displaying

• “Force web auth” option for devices with broken Google auth

• “Modified file notification”: added “Remove the file from the library” item (for files out of library folder only)

• Start screen loading speed up

Version 2.7.2 (Sep 6, 2016)

• Fixed “return to” items behaviour (in the back button menu)

• Fixed preferences crash on Android 4.0/4.1

• Fixed “Supported file formats” preference

Version 2.7.1 (Sep 2, 2016)

• Multiple files per book

• File change notification

• Fixed reading progress issue

• Easy access to books on sd card

• Android 6: FBReader opens ePub/PDF files from external applications (not fb2 yet)

• No longer wrong “missing book” notifications

• “Tweet what you have read” link at end of book

• Autocrop option for PDFs and comics

• Fixed large table of contents support

• Misc fixes in ePub, MS Doc, RTF support

• Android 7 multi-window mode support

Version 2.6.13 (Apr 4, 2016)

• FBReader does not reset directories options on start

Version 2.6.12 (Apr 2, 2016)

• Fixed network issue

• Fixed book deleting issue

• Fixed large book collections scanning

Version 2.6.11 (Mar 25, 2016)

• Fixed screen sleeping issue

• Fixed https network catalogues connection

• Fixed navigation slider issue

• Smoother page turning animation. Animation speed could be changed on some devices. You can adjust it in Page Turning setting section

• Fixed back button behaviour

Version 2.6.10 (Mar 4, 2016)

• Cosmetic fixes

Versions 2.6.7-2.6.9 (Feb 13-26, 2016)

• Fixed synchronisation issues

• Fixed saving of position between runs

• Fixed bookmarks higlighting issue

• Minor fixes

Version 2.6.6 (Feb 3, 2016)

• Fixed storage permission issue on Android 6

• Updated Chinese localisation

• Fixed PDF metainfo reading

Version 2.6.5 (Jan 31, 2016)

• Fixed status bar behaviour on Android 4.3 and lower

• Minor fixes

Version 2.6.4 (Jan 29, 2016)

• Left (“hamburger”) menu look meets latest Google guidelines

• Added content description for the main view (for TalkBack users)

• Fixed accented letters rendering in *.doc files

• Fixed “Where to save downloaded books” option issue

• Fixed chapter mark positions on the progress indicator

• Stability fixes

Version 2.6.3 (Jan 14, 2016)

• Fixed page numbering issues

• Fixed non-breakable spaces width issue

• Fixed book menu behaviour

• Updated Czech and Romanian localisations

• Stability fixes

Version 2.6.2 (Dec 31, 2015)

• Swipe gesture for left (“hamburger”) menu is disabled by default. It could be enabled in the “Appearance” section of the Settings dialogue

• Fixed hyphenation issues

• Fixed non-breakable spaces processing in the rendering engine

• Fixed Slovoed (Paragon) dictionaries integration

Version 2.6 (Dec 20, 2015)

• Added this dialogue :)

• Material design UI style

• In reading mode there are two menus now, left (“book”) and right (“main”). Item positions are configurable

• Custom shelves synchronisation

• Fixed tags/authors editing in the book info dialogue

• Fast scroll and alphabetic index in the bookshelf (swipe finger along the right edge of the list)

• Page numbers in the table of contents

• Simple start screen widgets

• Minor fixes