OUP - LawReader
Oxford University Press Titles
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OUP LawReader on ProLibro™ provides you with instant access to leading authorities from Oxford University Press. Its unique, intuitive interface enables you to find answers instantly both offline and online – anytime, anywhere.
• Access to leading OUP titles both offline and online across mobile devices, PCs, and laptops
• New tabbed title support allows you to open multiple publications at once and easily navigate between them.
• New multi-title searching available directly in the library. Open a publication with results to see those results directly in the book.
• New multitasking engine allows you to download multiple publications at once.
• Clear, common-sense navigation for instant access to the information you need
• Push updates ensure you always have the most up-to-date materials
• Full-text boolean searching that provides immediate results
• Create and organize personal bookmarks, highlights, and notes easily
• Annotations and actions history are synchronized across all of your digital devices
• Quickly copy and paste into other documents, complete with references and links
• Share links with other OUP LawReader users that automatically open the app and take them directly to the referenced location
more - Improved the media panel to better handle scrolling/panning/zooming on all platforms
- Improved the media handling of books that use the new packaging approach of Build
- Fixed an edge case where books could erroneously report that offline time has been exceeded.
4.1.8 11/25/2025
Many fixes to logins and general stability. Important improvement to the speed of books opening.
4.1.4 05/21/2025
Fixed a critical issue where offline access was failing in some scenarios.
4.0.25 11/23/2024
Major revisions to the download process. Cleanup of many error sources.
4.0.18 10/30/2024
Bug fixes. Usability adjustments.
4.0.5 09/18/2024
Major change to the Libraries powering LawReader running on proLibro. Expect increases in performance, stability, and efficiency. A long laundry list of bugs have been resolved to provide a better experience all around.
4.0.0 07/28/2024
Many stability fixes and adjustments to the UI/UX in some cases.
3.2.20 01/17/2024
Fixed an issue were a large part of the screen could go gray.
3.2.12 12/15/2022
Fixed issue where new tips could not be created.
Fixed issue where user content migration dialogs would cause errors to display.
Offline package redemption cleans up after itself better.
Offline package redemption shares progress with the user.
Multiple performance improvements and library tweaks.
3.2.9 11/30/2022
Hotfix adjustment to handle the issue reported in some cases of a gray screen on app launch.
3.2.2 09/08/2022
Hotfix version 3.2.1
- Fixed an issue where the library could load empty.
- Fixed an issue where copy was not working in some scenarios.
- Fixed an issue where the book view displayed half its size with a grey background.
3.2.1 09/08/2022
Fixed issues that could cause instability during downloads. Adjusted the context menu to avoid inconsistent click targeting.
3.1.30 03/02/2022
Updated multiple internal libraries. Many bug fixes and UI adjustments for mobile and small frame use cases. Fixed a bug where the book could get stuck synchronizing user content.
3.1.25 01/11/2022
Updated dependencies and fixed some rare login bugs
3.1.23 11/18/2021
Optimizations to the download process of books to avoid download corruption cases and general optimizations.
3.1.19 09/24/2021
Fixed an issue where a duplicate book key could result in an empty library.
3.1.14 03/27/2021
Login token tweak and optimizations.
3.1.11 03/18/2021
General tweaks and optimizations. Many bug fixes.
3.1.10 03/16/2021
Various fixes and stability enhancements.
3.0.14 08/05/2020
Bug fixes and stability enhancements.
3.0.10 06/18/2020
= Highlighting improvements, including
- Overlapping highlights now show the overlapping colour up to 3 overlapping highlights. See which annotations overlap directly in the content!
- Major performance improvements loading and handling high volumes of highlights.
- Enhanced rules on highlight presentation - highlight lists are now presented with the most recent highlight at the top of the list
= New content flow controls increase the speed of navigating titles.
= General quality of life and performance enhancements.
3.0.9 06/10/2020
Library
- New: Ctrl+R on the library panel will trigger a refresh of the library.
- New: Open books are now restored on subsequent launch, with the user returned to the active state when the App is closed.
- Enhanced: Clicking the text on library tiles now opens the "more info" page when not in search mode.
- Enhanced: The brand icon on the top left of the panel now navigates to the library instead of doing nothing.
- Enhanced: Made the selection state of tiles in the mutli-title search a bit clearer. Previous animation made it seem like the tile needed to be clicked instead of showing it as "selected".
Reader Panel
- Enhanced: Reinstated a feature that properly repositions the ContextMenu as the selection changes so it doesn't block selection
- Enhanced: Fixed dialogs being hidden behind message notifications
Annotations
- New: General presentation cleanup for Annotations panels. Default Annotation colors options extended, and custom colours are now saved to the list for future reuse, and synchronized between devices.
- Enhanced: Annotation and Favourite detail panels properly reset when appropriate.
- Enhanced: Added a "GoTo" button on the form toolbars of Annotation/Favourite detail views (users can still jump to the annotation from the list view)
- Enhanced: Added a padding to the AnnotationType context menu items to avoid the "crushed" look they had.
- Fix: issue where the Annotation/Favourite form being closed could cause it to pop back open partially.
- Fix: issue where favourites could not be created
- Fix: issue where deleting a favourite/annotation/type would make the form toolbar disappear
Search
- Enhanced: System Memory improvements when Search is active
- Enhanced: Search Result details can now be collapsed to show more results per page.
- Enhanced: Search Result details (collapsed vs. details and Rank vs. Reading Order) display options now persist between sessions.
- Fix: Search result 'words around results' have had the square brackets removed around the elipses.
- Fix: Search results only scrolling to the segment instead of the first result for the segment.
- Fix: Issue where search navigation could end up in a loop.
- Fix: The end of search causing the suggestions to pop up, blocking the first result
Table of Contents
- Enhanced: Aligned the ToC expanders and icons to the top line of the ToC item. This way they appear consistently when the ToC item is on multiple lines.
- Enhanced: The search filter icon has been revised. It will be clearer when it is active and won't show in the ToC toolbar unless the filter checkboxes are visible.
- Enhanced: "Toggle inputs" tooltip has been changed to a friendlier name.
- Fix: Clear all checkboxes were not clearing.
Options
- Fix: Settings window no longer cut off when the height of the app is too small.
- Fix: Reader font size has been fixed. Setting it in the options will now correctly increase or decrease the size of text.
General
- Fix: Offline mode not functioning as intended. Books should no longer be closed unexpectedly in offline mode.
3.0.7 04/30/2020
- Fixed offline mode not functioning as intended. Books should no longer be closed unexpectedly in offline mode.
- Fixed the settings window getting cut off when the height of the app is too small.
- Made the selection state of tiles in the mutli-title search a bit clearer.
- Other performance and user interface enhancements.
3.0.5 04/10/2020
Stability improvements and minor bug fixes.
3.0.4 03/28/2020
Introducing version 3.0.1 of the acclaimed OUP - LawReader on proLibro. In this major update we have redesigned the user interface with a new modern design for improved readability and speedier navigation. The new release brings major optimizations and new features including:
• A crisp new design with a modern new interface allows you to focus on getting to the information you need fast without losing any of the functionality available in previous releases.
• You can now open multiple Titles at once! Each Title is displayed independently in tabs at the top of the screen. Switch between your opened publications quickly and easily without needing to close and open the new one.
• Search across multiple Titles! User the Search option in the Library and select multiple Titles to include in a single search, then open the Title to see the results by selecting the hit count.
• See upcoming and other Oxford University Press Titles available for LawReader displayed in the new "Other Available Titles" list in the Library.
• A speedy new architecture supporting multiple simultaneous actions. This revamped rendering engine enables downloading and launching multiple Titles as well as streamlining other actions for improved efficiency and responsiveness.
• The Reader's Navigator scrollbar has been enhanced to show the relative location of search results to mark topical density and the Navigator dialog now displays the search results count in the same fashion as the Table of Contents.
• Annotations and favourites can now be grouped by their types and folders respectively, allowing for a clean and streamlined viewing of these panels.
• Landscape mode is now available to iPhone users.
• A significant number of optimizations, stabilization, security, and performance improvements make LawReader the fastest and most efficient reference e-reader available.
Note, this major revision may require a re-download of your Titles.
3.0.1 03/20/2020
- Improved the media panel to better handle scrolling/panning/zooming on all platforms
- Improved the media handling of books that use the new packaging approach of Build
- Fixed an edge case where books could erroneously report that offline time has been exceeded.
more Version 4.1.8 11/25/2025
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