Every release is a move, and every move is recorded here: dated, named, accounted for. Nothing ships in silence.
Chapter headers now sit on a frosted band on every phone and tablet, so the text never runs under the title. Saving a highlight in a long chapter no longer stalls the page, and the Feed composer keeps its words straight while the keyboard corrects them. Swipe a translation off the shelf, find your saved posts in their own Feed tab, tag a reader by typing @ and their name, and find chapters, essays and web links in one link picker.
Stan’s posts in the Feed’s Public tab now read without an account, and a reader without a book in the Library sees them too; the comments wait behind sign-in. While a chapter lays itself out, its progress now runs along the chapter line under the title instead of a bar of its own.
The listening dock in the reader keeps its glass on the iPad instead of turning clear, and the card that asks how you appear in the Feed now opens the review itself. Fourteen lines of the app’s own words read more plainly.
Every sheet, card and pill in the app now wears the same Liquid Glass, from sign-in to your highlights and the notifications on the iPad. The reader’s settings sit in glass too, scroll inside their sheet, and let you pick the page colour. On the iPad, tapping the theme coin no longer sends a chapter back to its first line.
On your first visit to the Feed you now choose how you appear: your real name from your order, or a pen name made on the spot with its own face and colour, and which one is your default. Readers already inside are asked once. Offline, the player and the reader open at once from the copies on your phone, Download all answers the tap immediately, and the chapter list fills its sheet.
A code now goes only to the email a book was bought with, or to a number already on your account. The screen says the same thing either way, so nobody can learn whether an email belongs to a reader. Your library and your codes are untouched.
Extras now carries the essays after the journals as cards. Read one there, save it for offline, pin it to the top of your list, hear it when it carries audio, or open it in the reader. Some essays are for readers with a book, and the Feed now opens to readers with a book in their Library.
A saved highlight offers Undo for a moment, and Cancel in the naming box leaves nothing tinted. On the iPad, naming a quote card no longer freezes the screen. Profile pictures load faster, Sign out sits on your profile page, and your notifications show each comment once.
A comment you start under a post is saved as you type and is back when you return, with its photo, your name choice and the comment it answers. Sending it clears it.
The door to the Room takes your date of birth as three boxes in the order your country writes it, with an Open calendar button beside them that reaches back to 1900.
Every cover carries its language once a second language is on your shelf, a language row filters the books, and a card tells you when your license includes a translation. Search finds whole words and lights them up, quote cards are named before they are made and carry the words around the passage, and posts save themselves as you write. The reader, the messages and the composer sit better with the keyboard on every phone and tablet.
A photo added to a Room post now uploads with its type, so the post goes out instead of stalling. If an upload is ever refused, the composer says so on the spot. Tag a reader with an @ and the first letters of a name.
Extras has a Translations page: add an edition to your shelf and read its opening chapters free; the rest comes with the book you own. Every page title now sits in the page, the header is the phone's own glass, and signing out leaves nothing of your account on the device. Dozens of smaller fixes from the store review, on iPhone and iPad alike.
The Feed tab now holds the readers' room for every signed-in reader: posts, comments, private messages, reactions, chapter and post cards, a noticeboard and search. Post under your real name or an anonymous name of your own, and switch between the two whenever you like. Every post is checked for the guidelines before it appears, usually within seconds.
Settings joins the bottom bar on iPhone, the iPad carries the same glass bar, and large text sizes reshape the Library instead of clipping it. The reader gains a progress scrubber, a return pill for the spot you left, a read-time count, and a Match button that moves the narration to the page in view. Sign-in explains a failed connection in plain words, the free opening chapters ship inside the app for a first open without signal, and resumed audio starts exactly where you left it.
The search panel now stands at full height from the first tap and stays planted while you type, with the keyboard steady beneath it. Results always open from the top of the list. Delivered silently to every installed copy.
Bookmarks and highlights now return you to the exact line they were set on, however deep the chapter. In-book search holds its ground while you type and lands every result precisely, with your place waiting when you step back. Delivered silently to every installed copy; no update required.
The complete Stan Taylor library arrives on iPhone and iPad: every book typeset natively, every audiobook narrated by Stan, and your place held across reading and listening. Highlights, notes, and bookmarks live on your account and follow you to any device, and the wallpaper forge turns the lines that hit into lock screens. Free to download; books unlock with the access code from your order.
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