Guarded closer than ever. This update is about your reading. Private, steady, and yours. • What you read stays private. A book can no longer reach the internet while you read it. Some ebook files hide images or fonts that report when and where they were opened; BookHoard now blocks them. • Choose your page. Read on white, sepia, grey or black, in books and PDFs alike. Highlights stay clear on every one. • The last page is the end. Books finish at 100%, and your place is kept exactly — even if you close a book with the controls showing. • PDFs, read like books. Swipe to turn the page, bookmark the one you're on, and jump through a PDF's own contents. • Quote the copy on your shelf. Make a quote card from any book in the hoard — paperbacks and hardbacks too. • Imported books, easy to bring back. After a reinstall or a new phone, the Library shows which imports are missing and where they came from. Import them again and each returns to its book, with your place, highlights and notes. Also: • Clearer messages when signing in doesn't work, with a way forward. • VoiceOver can read the book itself, and reach the sliders, ratings and reading menus. • Softer text on the black and grey pages. • Books reopen straight to your place, without a flash of page one. • On iPad, swiping back a page no longer closes the book. • Signing out on one device no longer signs you out of the others. • If a search can't reach the catalog, it says so and offers to try again.

SEND A BOOK STRAIGHT TO BOOKHOARD Share an EPUB or PDF from Files, Drive or your mail and it goes into your Vault, with no trip through the import screen. On iPhone and iPad, have BookHoard open when you share it. BOOKPLATES FOR THE SHELF ITSELF Print your own, with your name and a running accession number, so the books on the shelf carry the same record the app does. One design is free; the rest are Hoard+. SEVEN DAYS, SEVEN BANS — 4 TO 10 OCTOBER One banned book a day with its real record: which district, which date, what was decided. Every one of them free to read here. MARK YOUR PAGE Tap the ribbon in the corner of a page and it is kept. Press any highlight to read your note back, change it, or let it go. The Marks list holds all of it in the order the book does. TAKE YOUR MARKS WITH YOU Every bookmark, highlight and note in a book, as a PDF or a text file, from the Marks list. Yours to do anything with. Hoard+. WHICH SHOPS HAND OVER THE FILE Buy online is sorted into print, ebooks and audiobooks now, and the ebook shops say whether the file is DRM-free — because a book you can move is a book you can read here. A FACE FOR EVERY BOOK Books with no cover art get one of their own: the Trove's classics, your own imports, and the ones no shop had a picture for.

THE TROVE — three hundred books, free Under the + button: public-domain classics you can open right now, at no cost. Seventy-four of them sit on somebody's banned list, and the Trove names whose. They don't count against your library limit. READ WHAT YOU ALREADY OWN Bring your DRM-free EPUBs. They stay on your device, they open without a signal, and the hoard finally does something with what it has been guarding. IT KEEPS YOUR PLACE Close the book mid-sentence and it opens there. Whatever you're part-way through waits at the top of the Library, so you're never hunting for it. TURN IT SIDEWAYS The app follows the phone now. Useful for a wide shelf, and for reading with the text a little larger. Also in this release: Banned Index links now resolve on many more books, the reading scrubber lands where you drop it, and a handful of smaller fixes.

Four themes — Hoard, Prism, Dark Academia, and Nocturne. Shelf view — see your library as spines on a shelf, the way it looks at home. Your own covers — photograph the copy you actually own and crop it to fit. Discover — mood picks and picks drawn from your library now sit side by side. Plus a faster app open, sharper contrast throughout, and fixes to staying signed in, series grouping, and the library grid.

Series tracking, and a clearer picture of what you own. • Series — see how many books you own in a series and exactly which volumes are still missing. Detect Series can sort your whole library into its sets in one pass. • Hoard Value — estimate your collection against real list prices, set your own value on the rare and signed ones, and export a PDF inventory for insurance. • The Banned tab — search a live index of 20,000+ challenged U.S. books, see how many of them are on your own shelves, and share the count. • Faster scanning — noticeably less waiting between one barcode and the next. • Sharper results throughout: banned books are only flagged when it's genuinely the book that was challenged, and author bibliographies no longer fill up with box sets, wholesale listings, and foreign-language editions. Plus a long list of smaller fixes — share cards that fit, library controls that stay put, cover art that fills in more reliably, and an accessibility pass across the newer screens.

NEW: The Banned tab Browse a live, continuously updated index of 20,000+ banned and challenged U.S. books. Search by title or author, filter by state, and see how many of the books in your own library have been banned somewhere. Redesigned Discover Your personalized picks, this week's bestsellers, and more — all in one clean feed. Borrowed books Log a book you borrowed (and its format), so you never accidentally re-borrow it. Plus polish and bug fixes throughout. Happy hoarding.