Spooky Classics for October, and save the lines you love while you listen. • Spooky Classics: Frankenstein, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray and The Turn of the Screw are free to listen this October. Fall Classics returns in November. • Tap Save Passage in the player to keep what you just heard. Saved text stays marked on the page. • Find every passage under Saved Passages in the Chapters sheet. Tap one to read or play it, then return to your place. • Speed, Voice and Save Passage now have their own labeled row under the playback controls. • Play From Here starts at the line you tap. • A new chapter now opens at its top.

Books that set lines in ALL CAPS, like chapter epigraphs and small-caps openings, now sound right. Those lines are read as ordinary sentences, while real acronyms like IBM are still spelled out. A cleaner, more consistent look: sheets open the same way everywhere, the current chapter is easier to spot, and About is easier to read at large text sizes. After you download a Premium voice, the last step now names it and lets you keep your current voice instead.

• Hear the difference: the first time you press Play, Reader can play a sample of one of Apple's free Premium voices next to your current one, then show you how to download it. • New listeners get their first hour with no ads. After that, a small banner appears above the book. • Rather not see ads? Remove them with a one-time purchase, from the banner or from About. No subscription. • The Play and Pause button now changes the moment you tap it.

Tapping a Fall Classics link now opens the collection right in Reader.

Nine autumn classics, and a reader that remembers where you were. • Five new books, and an autumn shelf. The Secret Garden, Walden, The Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow join Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Little Women and The Hound of the Baskervilles as Fall Classics — nine titles with new cover art, free, nothing to buy. • Your book opens where you left it. Reopening a book now returns you to the passage you were on instead of the top of the chapter. • Moving between chapters lands properly. Starting a new chapter, or rolling into one as it plays, now puts you at the chapter's heading rather than just below it. • Finding your place is easier. "Back to current" now sits at the top of the screen and points the way the spoken word lies, appears only when the word is genuinely off screen, and no longer flickers while you scroll. • The chapter list has moved above the progress bar, within easier reach.

Thirteen classic books, free, right in the app. • Free Classics. Thirteen great books with new cover art, ready to listen the moment you open the app. No account, no download, nothing to buy. • Your own books are easier to add. An Import ePub tile now sits in your library, so bringing in a book you already own takes one tap from the shelf. New here? The library points you to Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg, and About has a page on where to find books. • A fix for British English voices. The word highlight could stop in the middle of a long sentence and sit still for several seconds before catching up. It now keeps pace with the voice. • Chapter headings numbered with Roman numerals are read as numbers, so Chapter IV is spoken "Chapter four" instead of letter by letter. • Steadier playback. Skipping or changing speed can no longer end a chapter early or jump you somewhere you did not ask for, and the reader stays responsive while the next passage is being prepared.

• The play and pause control no longer shows the wrong state after you skip or change speed. What the button shows now matches what you are hearing. • About shows the build number next to the version, which makes a support message easier to answer.

Pictures, and a font that helps. • Illustrated books now show their illustrations, in place between paragraphs and sized to the page rather than stretched to fill it. • OpenDyslexic joins System, Serif and Monospaced in the font picker. It was drawn to make letters harder to mistake for one another, and it grows with your text size the same way the other faces do. • Books open faster, illustrated ones most of all, and the app stays responsive while a long book loads. • The page follows the voice more closely, and "Back to current" reliably returns you to the word being read, including when a full-page picture sits between you and it.

Reader now shows a single banner ad above the text while you read - no full-screen ads, and nothing that interrupts playback. In the EU, UK and Switzerland you'll be asked once about your data; you can revisit that choice in About › Privacy Options.

Words that read two ways now read the right way. "There was a tear in his shirt" and "a tear rolled down her cheek" are spelled the same and spoken differently. Until now one of them came out wrong. This release decides them by meaning, so tear, wind, bow, row, lead, sow, dove, bass and wound get the reading the sentence actually calls for. The work happens on your device while the next chapter is being prepared, so playback never waits on it and nothing about your book is sent anywhere. Requires an iPhone with Apple Intelligence; everything else in the app works as before. Also in this release: - Playback starts sooner. Each passage is prepared as it is queued instead of all at once. - Starting partway through a paragraph keeps the right pronunciation instead of resetting it. The word list is the real lexicon, not invented: bass, bow, dove, lead, row, sow, tear, wind, wound and their plurals.