The One with the Thoughts of Frans

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer for E Ink devices, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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Special thanks to @dengste this month for adding natural light support on the Kobo Aura One (#3679).

You can control the natural light feature on the Kobo Aura One through the regular frontlight widget and the frontlight gesture controller. The latter allows for controlling warmth by swiping on the right of the screen, and is accessible via Tools → More plugins → Frontlight gesture controller.

Those who read two-column papers might like the new two-column navigation (@FranMarelli This does not work in conjunction with scroll mode.

Those willing to experiment can try the new Open with… option (#3651).

Finally, a little clarification on last month’s HTML dictionary support. We use MuPDF to render the HTML dictionary results. Unfortunately, MuPDF expects its input to be well-formed XHTML, meaning XML. When the HTML is tag soup instead, KOReader will fall back to a stripped version of the HTML dictionary entry. Should this be the case, you can manually fix up the output by adding a .lua file in the dictionary directory. Further details and a few examples are provided by @poire-z in #3611.

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights include:

• Fix speedup of dictionaries init (@poire-z
• Swipe down or tap on top left/right to access left/right reader menu tab directly (@nagyation
• Menu: configure number of items per page, wrap entries (@robert00s
• OPDS – add confirm when file exist in local destination (@robert00s
• HTML dictionary link support (@TnS-hun
• Update History and Last open document when move (cut and paste) file (@poire-z
• Do not execute background runner if device is suspended (@Hzj-jie
• [feat] Add NetworkManager:isConnected() (@Frenzie
• Filemanager – sort by percent of book (@robert00s
• [UX] Move “Go back to previous location” up one menu level (@Frenzie
• Wikipedia: show images and allow interrupting queries (@poire-z
• luasettings: backup previous file and auto-recover (@poire-z
• epub metadata: support multiple authors (@poire-z
• HtmlBoxWidget: fix selection when starting from end (@poire-z
• Bump base: fix gray background instead of white on Kindle (@poire-z
• Add MovableContainer: allow moving some widgets (@poire-z
• Add menu item for toggling auto_book_status (@poire-z
• [UX] Dict: scroll back with tap: go to bottom of prev definition (@poire-z
• NewsDownloader: better exception handling and basic redirects (@mwoz123
• [feat] Open with: choose which engine to use for file (@Frenzie
• Menu: speed up rendering of long texts (@robert00s
• cre full text search: fix inconsistencies (@poire-z
• kobolight.plugin: Support for setting natural light (@dengste
• Show vertical marker at original position when back from link (@poire-z
• File manager: added ‘Go to letter’ (@robert00s
• cre cache: allow for disabling compression (@poire-z
• [feat] Two-column navigation (@FranMarelli
• [fix] larger max font size for crengine (@Frenzie

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