Beresta: Library & Highlights

Three themes, book details from the web, Vocabulary and Share to Beresta Choose from three themes: Wax, Imprint and the new Galley, each with a light and a dark variant (Settings, Appearance). The book page, the iPad shelf column and the iPhone shelf list now take the theme’s colors, and Dark reaches the page too. Book details from the web: the book screen has “Details from the Web”. When you tap Search, Beresta asks Open Library and Google Books and shows a before-and-after comparison, and you tick what to take: authors, year, publisher, description, cover. Your own Google Books key goes into Settings, “Details from the Web”, and is kept in the Keychain. Words you look up in the dictionary now collect in Vocabulary, with the sentence from the book, the meaning and the place you looked them up. It lives in the sidebar, you can edit the meaning, and words go to Anki cards the same way highlights do. Send a page from Safari or any app to Beresta with Share: the sheet shows the title and a tag, and says “Already in Beresta” if you saved it before. Import lists from Pocket, Instapaper and wallabag (CSV): archived items come in as read, favorites and folders become tags, and article texts download in the background with one button. At page 50 a book asks once whether to keep going, put it aside or drop it; turn this off under Reading. Also in this build. On the book screen, the Read and Download buttons are filled with the theme’s accent and stay legible in any appearance, and captions under covers no longer vanish when you switch themes. iPhone and iPad now measure a book’s length themselves: an EPUB is no longer “not yet measured — time only”, and your reading shows up in statistics as pages, not just minutes. EPUB import no longer lists the translator, editor or illustrator as authors, and “Luhmann, Niklas” becomes “Niklas Luhmann”. In a PDF, “Last, First” in the author field is one person too, not two. A brightness slider in the view menu, next to the page color; the edge gesture stays. Page-turn animation can be turned off. Deleting a hashtag from a note removes its tag. Merging authors updates the name in older highlights too. Tweets and podcasts from a Readwise export are skipped, and the summary says how many. Sync: when a server temporarily limits requests, as Koofr does, Beresta says so in plain words and waits until the stated time instead of extending the limit with more attempts; for Koofr it explains that you need an app password. If the iCloud folder has not finished downloading, Download says the folder is unavailable instead of staying silent. Fixed: Read in the iPad book card opens the book at once, your place no longer jumps ahead when you change the text size after moving with the slider, [1]-style footnotes open in a popup, PDF books no longer close with an error, and the password from an OPDS catalog address is not kept in the library. Adding a note to an existing highlight no longer recolors it with the color picked in the menu: its color and style stay as they were. You can still recolor a highlight with the color circle.