Better book search. - Apple Books joins OpenLibrary and Google Books as a search source. It helps most with ebooks and recent titles, and only takes part when you search by title and author. - Google Books searches now use the app's own key, so they no longer stop with a "quota exceeded" message when a shared allowance runs out. - The results screen opens as soon as you tap Search and shows progress. If one source has a problem it says so in its own section instead of "No results found". - Result sections can be collapsed, and books without a cover show a placeholder.

The immediate cause of this update was my wife holding up a copy of "The Q" by Beth Brower and asking, with the patience of someone who has been married to a software developer for a very long time, why the app she was specifically promised would track her books could not find this particular book. I had no good answer. I had a couch, and I had incentive. Turns out OpenLibrary — a noble, free, community-maintained archive of human knowledge — doesn't have every book. Shocking. Apparently decades of volunteers cataloguing the accumulated output of Western civilization still missed a few titles. So I added Google Books as a fallback, because one institution isn't enough. Search now queries both OpenLibrary and Google Books simultaneously, presenting results in clearly labeled sections so you can compare and choose whichever one got the author's name right. Books remember where their data came from, and "Refresh Book Details" is smart enough to go back to the same source instead of wandering off to ask someone else. A "Powered by Google" badge was added to the detail view because Google's terms of service asked nicely, and I am nothing if not compliant with the terms of service of multi-trillion dollar corporations. The app still costs too much. That's intentional. It's working.

Fixed the app menu on Mac, which was stubbornly introducing itself as "MyReadingJournal" despite having a perfectly good name. It now correctly says "Book/Read," which is the name on the door, the name on the tin, and the name my wife uses when she's not calling it "the book thing." The book cover on the detail page now stays pinned to the top of the screen instead of drifting toward the middle like it was looking for a more comfortable spot. It was not. It lives at the top now. Various under-the-hood improvements were made that you will never notice, which is exactly how it should be.

Minor irrelevant things. Move along.

Updated ISBN workflow. If the book is not found by ISBN, you can take a picture of the cover and add the Title/Author to your list. It will crop the book picture to just the cover and try to populate the title and author from the cover.

We’re issuing an immediate recall on the last update. Turns out, in my excitement to give you those half-stars you didn't need, I broke something you probably didn't use. But my perfectionism (ha!) wouldn't let it slide. So here is a patch. Please stop downloading this. It only encourages me. This app is still not for you.

Half stars. That's it. That's the update. Rating a book in nice, clean whole numbers wasn't "good enough" for my wife. It has to be 4 stars, plus one of those stars that looks like it got caught in a closing elevator door. We're going for accuracy, folks. And in case you were wondering: This app is still not for you.

Still not for you. But fixed some date handling for "Books to Read".

This app is still not for you, therefore what's new in this version is irrelevant.