Volume: Books Read Aloud

## 1.2.0 — 2026-10-01 ### CarPlay - Pick a book from your recent books on the car's screen and it picks up where you left off, with no need to open it on your phone first. You can also jump between chapters from the car. - Narration keeps going when you leave the reader, and pauses when CarPlay disconnects. ### Reading - Highlight passages and add notes, then see them all together, either for one book or across your whole library. - Tag your highlights by topic and filter or group them by tag. - Many EPUBs now look much better: headings, emphasis, tables, equations, and sidebars keep their structure, and images read clearly in dark themes. - Opening a chapter now starts at the very top of the page. ### Listening - Narration now covers more than the words. Figures, tables, code, and equations are announced instead of silently skipped, and short pauses mark headings, quotations, verse, and section breaks, like a human narrator. Turn announcements down or off in Settings. - Choose how much audio to prepare ahead with three clear options: Live only, As you listen, and Whole chapter. Audio you have already heard is kept, so replaying and going back are instant. - If a sentence can't be voiced, a short tone plays and narration carries on. The skipped passage is marked in the text. If a voice fails, narration stops at that point and resumes there. - Changing the voice or other narration settings mid-book now takes effect right away. - Seeking, replaying, and switching books are much more reliable, and narration recovers when headphones or speakers change. - Preview a voice with your own text. ### Library - Books are marked finished automatically when you reach the end, and Recently Opened now reflects when you actually opened a book. - Clean Up Finished & Unopened gathers books you are done with or haven't opened in a while, so you can move them to the Trash in one go (with undo). - Export a narrated book as an audiobook (M4B) with chapter markers, or export the original file you imported. - When you save from the share sheet, you can file the item straight into a collection, or name a new one there. - The User Guide covers everything new. To update your copy, go to Settings → About → Restore User Guide; your place in it is kept. ### Languages - Now available in Spanish, French, German, and Danish. - The Turkish translation is now complete and has been reviewed for consistent wording. - Screens that still appeared in English, such as Clean Up and several settings notes, are now translated.