Calibre folks asked, so: - You can add a whole folder from Files now, like your calibre library in iCloud Drive or Dropbox. Athene grabs every book in it with calibre's titles, covers and tags - Your calibre tags show up in Collections, so you can browse your shelf by tag - Athene finds your "read" column even if it's called Finished, Done, Have read etc - The calibre setup guide now covers the Read column and running calibre-server on a NAS Also: - Press and hold a book and tap About This Book to see what it's about, its series and its tags - The book you're reading gets a little bookmark on the shelf and a "Continue reading" line under Library (you can turn the line off in Settings) - Send to KOReader only shows up if you use KOReader sync - Some EPUBs wouldn't open and said something about a zip archive. That's fixed

Clearer calibre setup. The guide now reminds you to click Allow the first time your Mac or PC asks whether calibre can accept connections (if it was dismissed, your iPhone or iPad couldn't reach calibre), and shows where Calibre lives now: Library › + › Calibre.

Athene 3.2.2 makes the Notebook at home on iPad. A book's notes now read like a page: a comfortable column, front of the book to back, under the book's own chapter names. Turn your iPad on its side and the book sits beside them, with the parts that hold your notes one tap away. Reflections, notes and highlights each have their filter, and a drawing sits in a card its own size. Also: • On iPad, panels open and close more gently, and changing the text size fades smoothly instead of jumping. • A roomier Aa panel on iPad, and the book's cover in Contents no longer crowds the corner. • KOReader setup, rewritten step by step for Kobo, Kindle and Boox. • "Continue where you left off" from KOReader now waits for you instead of disappearing. • Captions under illustrations no longer get cut off.

Athene 3.2 gives your notes a home, reads your PDFs aloud, and keeps your e-reader in step. All of it is free. THE NOTEBOOK A new tab for every highlight, note and drawing from every book, with filters and search. Tap a note to open its page. On iPad it spreads into two columns. Touch and hold a note to export it on its own, as text or as a PDF that keeps your drawings; a book's whole set exports from its page, and a PDF book can go out as itself, with your highlights, notes and drawings on its pages. REFLECTIONS Write what stayed with you, after a chapter, a reading session or a whole book: in the Notebook, or in the Notebook tab while you read. Typed or drawn, your reflections stay in the Notebook even when a book leaves your shelf. LISTEN TO PDFS Listen now reads PDFs. It skips running heads, page numbers and footnotes, joins words split across pages, reads scanned pages, and describes pictures and tables as it reaches them: from the PDF's own descriptions, or on iOS 27 by Apple Intelligence, on your device. KOREADER Keep KOReader on your Kobo or other e-reader in step with Athene: your books, your place, your highlights, notes and bookmarks, through a sync server of your own. Settings › Sync › KOReader shows you how, step by step. CALIBRE, BOTH WAYS Highlights you make in calibre's own reader now come into Athene, and from there to KOReader and your other devices. Your calibre library opens from + in your Library, and remembers where you were in it. TRANSLATE Select a passage and translate it, with Apple's translation. AND The Owl waits on the page after THE END. Settings has a new Support section, to rate Athene or write to me.

Athene 3.1 brings everything from 3.0 GINGERBREAD, the biggest update yet, and a few improvements of its own. All of it is free. LISTEN Any book, read aloud in a warm, natural voice that runs on your device. Tap the headphones while you read, and it keeps going with the screen locked. The voice is a one-time download of about 242 MB. NOTES YOU CAN DRAW Switch a note from Type to Draw and sketch in the margin, with a tray of pens and inks. Turn on Settings › Reading › More Drawing Tools for a fountain pen, a pencil and a brush. INK ON PDFS Mark up any page of a PDF with Apple Pencil, or with a finger. A DICTIONARY Select a word to see what it means and how to say it. It is built in, and it works offline. ICLOUD SYNC Turn it on in Settings › Sync, and your place, highlights, notes, drawings, collections, papers and reading settings follow you to every device signed in to your iCloud. It's off until you turn it on, and it goes only to your own private iCloud. FONTS AND PAPERS Read in any Google Font: Aa › Add a Font. Paper comes in any colour. MORE WAYS IN Tap + on the Library for free classics from Project Gutenberg, books sent from your computer over Wi‑Fi, a link to a book on the web, or an OPDS catalog. Athene now opens MOBI, AZW3, Word, FB2, TXT and HTML files too, turning them into books as they arrive. SEND TO CALIBRE Your highlights and how far you've read can go back to your calibre library, into columns you choose, and finished books can be marked as read. NEW IN 3.1 CALIBRE, EASIER TO CONNECT Type your computer's address without a port, and Athene finds calibre by itself. When it can't connect, it now says why: calibre isn't running, it's the wrong port, the computer is asleep, or Local Network is switched off. If calibre's Content server is off, "Show me how" walks you through turning it on. COLLECTIONS Add a whole stack of books to a collection at once, and rename or delete a collection by pressing and holding it. A book's menu can take it out of the collection you're in, and switching collections now fades smoothly instead of jumping. TRYING VOICES Each voice plays a different line about Owl when you try it, and a ring around its play button shows the line playing to the end. THE NOTEBOOK The reader's notes panel is now the Notebook, with room for all its filters. Reading is free, as it was.

Athene 3.0 GINGERBREAD - is the biggest update yet, and all of it is free. LISTEN Any book, read aloud in a warm, natural voice that runs on your device. Tap the headphones while you read, and it keeps going with the screen locked. The voice is a one-time download of about 242 MB. NOTES YOU CAN DRAW Switch a note from Type to Draw and sketch in the margin, with a tray of pens and inks. Turn on Settings › Reading › More Drawing Tools for a fountain pen, a pencil and a brush. INK ON PDFS Mark up any page of a PDF with Apple Pencil, or with a finger. A DICTIONARY Select a word to see what it means and how to say it. It is built in, and it works offline. ICLOUD SYNC Turn it on in Settings › Sync, and your place, highlights, notes, drawings, collections, papers and reading settings follow you to every device signed in to your iCloud. It's off until you turn it on, and it goes only to your own private iCloud. FONTS AND PAPERS Read in any Google Font: Aa › Add a Font. Paper comes in any colour. MORE WAYS IN Tap + on the Library for free classics from Project Gutenberg, books sent from your computer over Wi‑Fi, a link to a book on the web, or an OPDS catalog. Athene now opens MOBI, AZW3, Word, FB2, TXT and HTML files too, turning them into books as they arrive. SEND TO CALIBRE Your highlights and how far you've read can go back to your calibre library, into columns you choose, and finished books can be marked as read. Reading is free, as it was.

A new calibre screen, and a good deal more. YOUR CALIBRE LIBRARY The calibre tab now opens on what's new on your server, the next book in a series you've finished, and more by the author you're reading, with Authors, Series, Tags and Formats a tap away. When calibre has no description for one, the Owl reads its first few pages and tells you how it begins. Athene now reaches your server over Tailscale. READING Turn on Settings › Reading › Show Reading Progress for a fine line at the foot of the page, with how much of the book you've read beside it. PDFs now pinch to zoom and turn with a swipe, so a stray tap no longer flips the page. Style/Layout panel re-organized ON IPAD The tabs move to the top of the screen, calibre lists use the width in two columns, and Contents, Aa and the Owl open right beside their buttons. Reading is free, as it was.

CALIBRE Athene now works with calibre's own built-in content server, not only calibre-web. READING Text alignment — justified, or ragged right. Four line-spacing settings and three margin widths. All under Aa, in Layout. AROUND THE APP Easier to use with one hand on iPhone Reading is free, as it was.