In a two-page spread, a page now turns over the spine and lands on the one facing it. The library moves to the system’s own tabs and toolbar, and PDFs are easier to read. Page turns • Two pages at a time, a curl turns one page the way your hand would: lifted at its edge, carried over the spine and laid on the facing page. Going back is the mirror. It works in PDFs, in the printed journal, and in EPUBs whenever the width shows two columns. • A two-page spread is headed and numbered like a printed one. Navigation • Library, Explore, Inspiration and Search sit in a tab bar, each with its own icon. The shelf picker, the journal, Add and … stand in the toolbar above. • Settings → Navigation → Toolbar buttons sets their order, and which of them wait in … instead. • Light and dark have a button of their own. The new light spreads out from where you tapped. • On an iPad the sidebar lists your shelves, so another shelf is one tap away. • Rather have Biblio’s original masthead, with its wordmark? It is still here as Classic, in Settings → Navigation. PDFs • A tap clears a text selection. Before, one selected word could leave the page refusing swipes and taps. • The right-hand page of a spread zooms and stays zoomed, instead of springing back. • Page thumbnails are drawn once, away from the page you are reading, so a scanned book stays quick to turn. Also • Sharing from Reading sends a clean card rather than a capture of the screen. • The journal shows its cover in the grid and the list. • Fixed: one book much wider than the rest set the spacing for its whole shelf, so an iPhone showed one cover per row. • Fixed: a link from another app to a book on your shelf could open onto an empty shelf.

Order your books by height, or by the year they were printed — the two orders you can still read when the books are standing spine-out. A tier of spines fills its board instead of stopping halfway, and choosing an order now moves the shelf itself. Two new orders • By height, tallest first, so the top edges fall away in one line. It is how a shelf of hardbacks is kept, and the one order you can read on a shelf turned spine-out. • By the year each book was published, earliest first, so the shelf reads as a chronology. A book with no year on it stands at the end rather than at the front. • Fixed: choosing an order changed the list and the cascade and left the shelf standing exactly as it was. The books now move to the order you picked. Spines • A tier of photographed spines fills its shelf. Ten spines stand in the space one cover takes, so counting the books out evenly across the rows left that tier ending halfway along a full-width board. The rows are cut on the width they actually take. • Fixed: a swipe along a shelf with spines on it could stop partway and refuse to go any further that way, while the arrows carried on working. Vidya • She can look beyond your library again. The catalogue behind her was often never connected at all, depending on how that launch happened to go. • Asking her in words for a book outside your library was the one phrasing that switched the search off. It no longer is. • With no catalogue in reach she says she could not look, rather than naming a book from memory. Genre • A book nobody has classified is no longer filed as non-fiction — not an EPUB you dropped in, not one added from the catalogue with nothing to go on, not one added by hand with the genre left blank, not one from a shared shelf. • Where a catalogue positively knows better, books already filed that way are put right.

The shelf stands in the order you choose — by author, by what you read last, by title — and the cascade follows. Photographed spines stand in bays now, and a shelf left alone no longer comes back squeezed. The order your books stand in • Order your shelf by your own arrangement, by author, by title, by what you last read, by status or by rating. The cascade follows the same choice. • A sort is only a way of looking until you say "Keep this order" — the arrangement you made by hand is never written over behind your back. • Filed by surname, the way a library would: Ursula K. Le Guin under L, Vincent van Gogh under V, and a name already written surname-first left as it is. • Photographed spines stand in bays. A run of them fills the space one cover would have taken, and the next cover picks the grid back up, so a row with spines still lines up with the rows above. Vidya • She carries a long conversation on to Apple's Private Cloud Compute rather than starting it over. The thread survives, and the answer tells you when it was not answered on your device. • A book she names from your own shelf wears your own cover, photographs and all, instead of an empty placeholder. Also • A library imported from Goodreads or StoryGraph is no longer filed as non-fiction from end to end. A shelf named "to-read" says where a book sits in your reading, not what it is about. • Fixed: a shelf or a graph left alone, then turned or folded, came back with the books squeezed. • Fixed: the shelf drew into half the screen after turning the phone on the newest iOS, and stayed there. • Fixed: half a shelf in landscape — a count of columns had been standing in for the width of the screen.

Vidya speaks again on the newest iOS. A book you don't own yet opens its details — and its cover, held down, becomes the book itself. Vidya • She fell silent mid-conversation on the newest iOS, which had renamed the error a long thread runs into. She answers again. • Each answer is sized to the model's own memory rather than a fixed guess, so more of your library reaches her at once. • Ask her something that isn't about books and she answers briefly, instead of steering everything back to your shelf. • She no longer greets you twice in the same conversation. A book you haven't met • Tap any book on Ranking, or on someone's shared shelf, for what it actually is: the description, the year, the length. A cover alone told you nothing. • A book you already own offers the next thing rather than a tick — read it, or log your reading when the copy is a printed one. • Press and hold a cover and it becomes the book. It lifts off the page into your hand, turns to show its spine and its printed back, and opens on its title page. Your own photographs of a spine or a back come with it. Also • Picking a book up and putting it down can be heard again on iPhone. Placing those sounds in space had been quietly costing them about ten decibels. • Ranking counts a work once, however many editions of it people are reading, and no single reader can carry a book to the top alone. • A PDF that isn't a book — a paper, a few pages of an article — is filed as a document until a catalogue says otherwise. • Fixed: every filled button wrote its label in white, which on the dark theme was very nearly unreadable.

Siri knows your library Ask Siri for the book about whaling and it finds it, even when the title never says so. Say "this book" in the reader or on a book's details and Siri knows which one you mean; in the list and the grid, "the third one" works too. Siri can also pass a book on to another app. Vidya finds more Vidya now reads what each of your books is about, so she names every one that fits a question rather than only the best. When just one or two fit, Find more beyond my library looks further on the same topic in a tap, and a follow-up about her answer carries on instead of starting over. Her bar sits on a frosted panel, so it reads cleanly over every shelf and room. The magazine rack A new shelf style in perforated steel, with books leaning back against it cover-forward, in front of a board-formed concrete wall. Books lift over its lip as you take them down and put them back, the rack sounds like steel, and every room now has its own acoustics. Part of membership. Motion A swipe along the shelf glides without catching at each book, on iPhone, iPad and a Mac trackpad. Taking a book down is one continuous motion. Spine photographs A level in the camera shows when the phone is square to the book, Biblio finds the spine's edges itself, and the crop has four corners and a magnifier for a book photographed at an angle. Also On iPhone the journal has a mark in the top bar, the list folds its filters into one menu, and a book's details can log your reading. Highlights and bookmarks have a right-click menu, with a delete button on the Mac. The reading timer pauses and resumes from the Lock Screen. Sync does almost no work when nothing has changed. Fixed On a Mac, covers stay on the shelf after the display sleeps. The journal's pages turn without a flash and a printed year opens at once. A photographed spine is no longer forgotten the next time the book is edited on iPhone or iPad. Ranking no longer flickers while it loads.

The Mac The picker for a cover, spine or back photograph can be cancelled, and it offers Files as well as Photos. A right-click menu holds still under the pointer — on a book in your hand too, with Put Back at the top. Check faces closes on Done. Faces, the journal's writing page and Settings open at a size that suits a desktop window: drag a corner to resize one, or double-click it to fill the window. The information panel widens when you drag its edge left. Reading A PDF spread draws its next pages before the turn, so a two-page turn no longer stalls, and a scanned page arrives sharp rather than blurred. Two pages or one is a choice in the reader's menu. A tall picture in an EPUB opens fitted to the screen and still pans and zooms. The journal Members can bind the year like a book: a photograph on the cover, a cloth and foil of their own choosing, a hardcover. A journal in your hand now appears in a shared shelf image. Switching between the Journal shelf and Main draws the new shelf at once, and Settings can hide the Journal tab for anyone who would rather not see it. Founding members A Founding member can now be thanked by name, under Acknowledgments in the app and at biblio.ink/credits. It stays off until you switch it on in Settings, where the printed name is yours to choose. Fixed A Mac that had been re-applying its whole library every minute now pulls only what changed, and the shelf holds still while it syncs. On an iPhone the shelf comes all the way to the journal at the left end rather than stopping one column short. The sync indicator stays in view on a bare shelf.

Fixes The Monthly option is back on the plan screen. If the app happened to be open when the monthly plans became available, it went on showing yearly billing alone. The year's journal now stands in Cascade alongside the rest of the library, and opens from there.

The reading journal There is one more volume on your shelf, and it is the only one nobody else wrote. It stands at the left of the top row with this year on its spine, and it thickens as the year goes on — with what you kept from your books, and what you had to say about them. Tap the year and it comes to the desk like any other book. Write at the top; the entry keeps itself when you look away. Mark a book finished and it comes down to the desk, settles, and the journal arrives beside it with a fresh entry already open for that book. Highlight a passage, share a quote, or choose Keep on a selection, in EPUB or PDF, and the passage is kept with its book and its page. The journal opens as a book too, falling open on the first page you wrote and set in the same serif as the rest of the library. Apple Pencil writes in it, a photograph can go in beside the words, and a calendar jumps to any day. Every year keeps its own volume, and they stand together on a Journal shelf of their own. Members choose the cloth and a foil monogram for the year's binding, and the journal travels with the library on Biblio Cloud or iCloud. Export a year, or the whole journal, as a Markdown file. The shelf A book with a photographed spine now stands spine-out at the head of the row, packed close on a deeper board. A book you pick up slides fully clear before it turns, so it never clips its neighbor, and the ladders and poles on the mid-century and glass shelves stand in channels the layout keeps clear. Fixed: highlighting in EPUB, which had stopped working; a highlight toolbar that ran off the edge of a phone; and books showing blank faces while their photographs loaded.

Photographed faces A book can now wear photographs of its own spine and back cover, not just its front. A guided capture keeps the shot lined up, a three-photo set covers the whole book, and the change lands on the book in your hand right away rather than waiting for it to go back on the shelf. Photos sync across your devices and show up on shelves you've shared. PDF reader A new Blend theme colors the page surround from the document's own paper, page by page, so the reading surface matches the book. Two-page spreads are here too — off by default, shown when there's room, with the whole reader turning by spread. Both readers now take arrow keys, space, and Escape. And the Mac stall some page turns caused is fixed. EPUB A full-page image no longer spills past the page it's on. Fixed: chart color mode is now one setting for the whole app instead of per-chart, a map cluster count that was hard to read, and Home Screen widgets going blank under the Clear appearance.

Ranking Inspiration has a second section: the books people are spending real time with, ranked by hours read. It counts books, never people — no names, no usernames, nothing about who read what. It stays off until you turn it on, and turning it off deletes what was sent. Bring your reading history Import a CSV from Goodreads, StoryGraph or LibraryThing. Covers are found as the books arrive, a book you already own is not added twice even when the editions differ, and the import screen remembers which services you have already brought across. Shelves Every shelf keeps its own appearance, and rename and delete now live in that same panel. Renaming a shelf you have published leaves its public link exactly where it was. Books Panels no longer invent a year or a page count they do not have — they show what is known, and what you entered yourself. Reading time follows a book wherever it appears. Charts The map and the reading grid draw in one ink, with a switch back to colour or to the original palette.

Books that move where you put them Hold and drag any book to reorder your shelf or list. On the grid, lift a cover and the others make room; in the list, dragging is live the moment you touch a row. The font size control in the reader now shows actual letter sizes instead of a percentage, so you can see exactly what you're choosing. Fixed: Home Screen widget covers went blank after being placed, and the book info panel was hard to read in light mode.

Cooler, and more capable Idle 3D views — the shelf, cascade, and constellation — stop rendering instead of running the phone hot around the clock. Tap any illustration to see it full-screen. Missing a cover? Generate one with Image Playground. Fixed: opening a book's info from the list could crash the app, an unzipped EPUB could fail to import, and turning on notifications sometimes did nothing.

Your shelf, and the room behind it, are now yours to choose. SIX SHELVES, THREE ROOMS, PICKED SEPARATELY Tap the quiet dot in the bottom-right corner. Warm oak boards against a gallery wall, a glass shelf in a wood-panelled room — any pairing you like. The wood room is one continuous wall of the same timber as the shelf, honey oak by day and walnut by night, with real grain in both. Glass goes liquid: half-thickness panes, rounded at the edge, each catching a soft trace of the cover in front of it. And a mid-century unit whose boards thread through real wire ladders. Warm wood and Classic are free, shelf and room together. THE HOUSE LIGHTS GO DOWN A new red velvet room. The curtain arrives rather than appears — two halves sweep in from the wings, the right a beat behind the left, and settle with the weight of real fabric. Below it, a table draped in the same cloth your books stand on. Pinch for more than one tier and the shelf becomes a staircase of velvet steps climbing back into the room. Free, curtain and boards together. THREE WIDGETS, AND A LIVE ACTIVITY Currently Reading — the cover, how far in you are, and a tap that opens the book at the page you stopped on. Reading Streak — days in a row and the weeks behind them, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. And Shelf: not a drawing of a shelf but a photograph of yours, taken in the room and the style you chose. On the Mac, the same three on the desktop. Start reading and the book rides the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island until you close it. PAGES TURN LIKE PAPER Both readers now curl the page under your finger. It leans the way you drag, keeps the pace of your hand, and turns a page rather than the whole screen. PDFs too. A WORD FROM YOUR OWN SHELF Biblio can now say something about a book that is actually yours — an author born today, a book you finished a year ago tonight, a book that has gone quiet on you. One a week at the very most, most weeks nothing at all, and never a red badge. Your titles and dates are read on this device and nothing about them is sent anywhere. Off entirely until you ask for it. CHOOSE YOUR BINDING Six app icons cut from the same leather. On iOS 26 they take the Clear and Tinted looks with them, and the shelf stands on the Home Screen itself. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE The Map, Reading and Constellation views now stand in the room you chose. Covers arrive for catalogue books that were published without one. Settings shows how much of your cloud storage is spoken for, and what happens when it fills. Markdown manuscripts open like any other book. Highlighting across a page break holds still while you drag. Plus a long list of smaller fixes and a faster shelf.

A shelf of your own. The shelf your books stand on, and the room behind it, are now yours to choose. Tap the quiet dot in the bottom-right corner. • Pick the shelf and the room separately — warm oak boards against a gallery wall, or a glass shelf in a wood-panelled room. Any pairing. • Six shelves: warm wood, classic, cream, brown, glass, and a mid-century unit whose boards thread through real wire ladders. • Glass is float glass — see-through panes with green-teal edges, held up by chrome poles when you zoom out to more than one tier. • The warm wood room is one continuous wall of the same timber as the shelf: honey oak by day, walnut by night, with real grain in both. • Warm wood and Classic are free, shelf and room together. The rest come with membership — try any of them first, and the shelf reverts when you close the panel. A new icon, and seven more. • Biblio now wears a stone leather board with its name blind-embossed in the corner. • Eight bindings in all, in Settings. Stone and the original Classic plate are free; the six leather dyes come with membership. Also in this release • Set a book down on the glass shelf and it sounds like glass, not timber. • Swipe page-turns are back in the reader. • Book descriptions that arrived from an epub as raw markup read as prose again — the ones already in your library are repaired the next time you open the app. • A shared picture of your shelf carries the room you actually chose. • A cover no longer flickers as the book settles back onto the shelf. • On Mac, Done closes the finished-this-year list again.

Biblio can now go and find books for you, not only hold the ones you already have. BROWSE A CATALOG The Add menu has a new door. It opens Project Gutenberg and its 75,000 free, public domain books. Search it, or wander through Popular, Latest and Random. A book arrives the way any other does, with a real cover and real metadata, filed on your shelf and ready to read. Run your own library? Add a server for Kavita, Calibre-Web, Komga, COPS or calibre's own content server. Anything that speaks OPDS will do. Test the connection before you save it, and your key or password stays in the device keychain, never synced. SHARE A LINE Select a passage in the reader and choose Share Quote. Biblio draws it as a picture in that book's own colours, with its cover, title, author and the chapter it came from, ready for wherever you post it. Saved highlights share the same way. JAPANESE SPINES STAND UP Japanese and Chinese titles now read top to bottom on the spine, the way they do on a real shelf. ANNOUNCEMENTS A new switch in Settings lets Biblio tell you when there is a new release or a free book worth reading. It is off until you turn it on, and turning it off stops everything. A few times a year at most, and never anything about what you read. ALSO Share your shelf on a photo of your own. See everything you finished this year as a poster of its covers. And a fix for a crash when opening a book from the list.

• Books that open the right way — manga, Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian books now bind on the right and read back to front; top-bound documents flip up like a binder. Read straight from the epub, mirrored on the shelf, matched in the reader. Plus a new "document" genre. • Share your shelf — turn any view into a share-ready image (Story or Post): the shelf, a book in hand, the map, or the constellation, wordmark and your name included. • New arrivals wear an obi — a paper band that tears when you first open the book. • Read undisturbed — a Reading Focus quiets the library to just your book; epub page progress now keeps up screen by screen.

• The world map now groups nearby bookshops into a single marker — tap to zoom in and spread them apart. Cities with several shops stay readable instead of overlapping. • Ask Vidya to find a book and the map now flies straight to its location. • Fixed the constellation losing your focused book when switching between light and dark. • Smoother book hover on the cascade shelf. • On Mac, the shelf no longer flickers when you switch back to the app. • More reliable iCloud and Biblio Cloud sync, with clearer messaging if a sync needs a moment to retry.

- Change a book's cover by dragging an image straight onto it, on Mac and iPad. - Ask Vidya to find covers for books that came in without one. - Grid view gains a hover response, and several crashes and rough edges are fixed. - Now member can change the 'Biblio' wordmark to any name you'd like or even hide it for clean, minimal interface. - Game controller support.

**The Map.** Your library on a world map: books pin to the places they're about, and tapping a place fans out its covers. Pan, zoom, and switch between Map and Constellation in the Graph view. - Pick or hide a book's map location yourself from the editor and books spanning several countries now pin at each one. - Importing a file you already own now opens your existing copy instead of creating a duplicate. - Shelf swipes and arrows now land centered on a book. - Covers are backed up with your library, shelf reordering syncs across devices, and the cover grid respects Reduce Motion. - Fixes: the Import file button in the Add sheet, an editor freeze, a cover-save crash, and a visible seam in landscape.