Resize Youtube Videos — You can now resize YouTube videos on the web, thanks to Mati. If you grab the small horizontal bar under the video and drag it up or down, the video will adapt to the new height. On mobile, you will see a much clearer error message when viewing YouTube videos while offline.'
New AI Models — OpenAI o1 is now available in the list of “bring-your-own-key” GPT models. It is designed to spend more time thinking, making it capable of more complex reasoning in science, math, and programming. You can learn more about using different GPT models from the Ghostreader documentation.
Fixed many bugs, including a large one where opening certain ePUB books would crash the app, urls with specific urls wouldn't work, split views wouldn't work, and much more.
Parsing Updates — Kryzs made improvements to how Reader handles posts from moretothat.com, http://todayintabs.com/, http://maggieappleton.com/, http://gatesnotes.com/, http://ycombionator.com/, http://nytimes.com/, Notion, and Bluesky.
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New Summaries in List View — We now display the summary and document title/favicon in the mobile actions sheet: just long press any document from a list view (like “Later” or your Feed) to get a quick peak at a document's summary without having to open it.
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So many bug fixes — Fixes to tags, the Omnivore import, Youtube AI transcript enhancement, ghostreader summaries, loading states (no more flickering when new documents are imported), progress bars, text-to-speech (TTS), parsing (for Bluesky and unherd.com), and much much more!
UI Improvements — The front matter (top header, buttons, etc) in the document view got a big redesign courtesy of Kris and Johannes, with the summary showing in a toggle view above the document content. It’s now easier to start TTS from anywhere within the document — check out the new play button in the top right. The option to change appearance is now in the bottom sheet. Excessively long metadata is now truncated, Ghostreader summaries can be about twice as long, and emails look a lot nicer in the Daily Digest.
Discover Documents — Mati built an easy way to bulk add some of Reader’s most popular documents directly to your account, hand-curated by our Wisereads editor Abi.
Export Everything — Thanks to Piotr, Reader's "Export PDFs and EPUBs" feature has been reworked to "Export full files and articles" which not only exports your uploaded files but also all of your Reader document HTMLs. Reader's public document list API now has a new html_content response data field enabled via the withHtmlContent query param. The Reader API also properly returns updated metadata instead of the original metadata.
* Reader now has a Trash Bin, where you can find all recently deleted documents and easily restore them
* New better "Return to reading position" feature while skimming any document :) Return to where you were reading, or jump to where you are now without any annoyance or confusion.
* We've updated the core local database for Reader, which will require a one time migration, but fix many bugs and improve performance.
* Tags should now load in the share sheet (when saving documents from another app) 10-100x faster!
* You can now view Enhanced Transcripts for youtube videos -- they'll be capitalized correctly with punctuation, paragraph breaks, etc. Perfect for highlighting your favorite moments from any video :)
* Highlighting Upgrades – You should now notice several subtle upgrades to the highlighting experience including better grabbing of leading and trailing punctuation, smoother cross-page highlighting in Paged Scroll mode on mobile, and, most importantly, the ability to resize existing highlights!