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.

Your reading, remembered. Biblio 1.5 keeps a quiet ledger of your reading — every book, wherever you read it. • Time in the reader records itself: open a book, read, and the day is inked into your log. Nothing to start or stop. • Reading on Kindle or on paper? Log it in a few taps from the book's panel — the day, how long, and where. • Started and Finished dates now sit beside a book's status, filled in the moment a book moves along, always yours to adjust. • A new Reading view joins Map and Constellation: a year of days, each square deepening with the time you gave it — streaks, days read, and books finished at a glance. • Tap any day to see which books it held; your in-progress shelf sits below, each book with its hours. Also in this release: reading logs and dates travel more dependably between your devices, and a subscription purchased on iPhone now unlocks everywhere without the wait.

Bug fix for publish shelf.

• 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.