## Summary
* Truncating chapter titles using utf8 safe functions (Cyrillic titles
were split mid codepoint)
* refactoring of lib/Utf8
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## Summary
* This change hides the button hints from overlapping chapter titles
when in landscape CW mode.
Before

After

## Additional Context
* I initially considered implementing an offset fix, but with potential
UI changes on the horizon, hiding the button hints appears to be the
simplest solution for now.
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## Summary
* refactors Indexing popups into ScreenComponents (they had different
implementations in different files)
* removes Indexing popup for small chapters
* only show Indexing popup (without progress bar) for large chapters
(using same minimum file size condition as for progress bar before)
## Additional Context
* Having to show even single popup message and redraw the screen slows
down the flow significantly
* Testing results:
* Opening large chapter with progress bar - 11 seconds
* Same chapter without progress bar, only single Indexing popup - 5
seconds
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## Summary
* Adds a menu in the Epub reader
* The Chapter selection is moved there to pos 1 (so it can be reached by
double tapping the confirm button)
* A Go Home is there, too
* Most significantly, a function "Delete Book Cache" is added. This
returns to main (to avoid directly rebuilding cached items, eg. if this
is used to debug/develop other areas - and it's also easier ;))
Probably, the Sync function could now be moved from the Chapter
selection to this menu, too.
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## Summary
Extracted some changes from
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/500 to make
reviewing easier
This PR adds HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) for display and GPIO
components, making it easier to write a stub or an emulated
implementation of the hardware.
SD card HAL will be added via another PR, because it's a bit more
tricky.
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* **What is the goal of this PR?** Implement a metadata viewer for the
Recents screen
* **What changes are included?**
| Recents | Files |
| --- | --- |
| <img alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e0f2d816-ddce-4a2e-bd4a-cd431d0e6532"
/> | <img alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3225cdce-d501-4175-bc92-73cb8bfe7a41"
/> |
For the Files screen, I have not made any changes on purpose. For the
Recents screen, we now display the Book title and author. If it is a
file with no epub metadata like txt or md, we display the file name
without the file extension.
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Although I went trough all the code manually and made changes as well,
please be aware the majority of the code is AI generated.
---------
Co-authored-by: Eliz Kilic <elizk@google.com>
## Summary
* If long-press chapter skip is disabled, turn pages on button pressed,
not released
* Makes page turning snappier
* Refactors MappedInputManager for readability
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** This PR introduces a new "Status Bar"
mode that displays a visual progress bar at the bottom of the screen,
providing readers with a graphical indication of their position within
the book.
* **What changes are included?**
* **Settings**: Updated SettingsActivity to expand the "Status Bar"
configuration with a new option: Full w/ Progress Bar.
* **EPUB Reader**: Modified EpubReaderActivity to calculate the global
book progress and render a progress bar at the bottom of the viewable
area when the new setting is active.
* **TXT Reader**: Modified TxtReaderActivity to implement similar
progress bar rendering logic based on the current page and total page
count.
## Additional Context
* The progress bar is rendered with a height of 4 pixels at the very
bottom of the screen (adjusted for margins).
* The feature reuses the existing renderStatusBar logic but
conditionally draws the bar instead of (or in addition to) other
elements depending on the specific implementation details in each
reader.
* Renamed existing 'Full' mode to 'Full w/ Percentage'
* Added new 'Full w/ Progress Bar' option
<img
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08c0dd49-c64c-4d4d-9fbb-f576c02d05d9"
width="500">
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
* Aims to fix Issue #220
* **What changes are included?**
- Increased size of `progress.bin` such that total page count of current
section can be stored
- Comparison of total page count is done to determine if reader settings
were changed
- New position/page number is calculated using percentage calculated
from read progress
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
specific areas to focus on).
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## Summary
* Fixes#475
* Fixes#477
* Closes#428
## Additional Context
* Updates to
`src/activities/reader/EpubReaderChapterSelectionActivity.cpp` are
copied verbatim from #433 (thanks to @jonasdiemer)
* Update to `src/activities/settings/KOReaderSettingsActivity.cpp` per
discussion with @itsthisjustin at #428
Tested on my device with several books and koreader sync turned on and
off.
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## Summary
Addresses
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/issues/504
- Reverts book progress % to showing as an integer instead of with a
decimal place
- This was changed to 1 decimal point of precision in
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/232 from
what I can tell
- As this wasn't the primary intention of that PR, I'm assuming it was
left in accidentally
IMO having a decimal place of precision is too much for something as
vague as book completion percent. This de-clutters the status bar and
prevents extra updates as you change pages.
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## Summary
Give space to the chapter title if we don't show battery percentage.
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# Summary
This PR introduces a reusable Tab Bar component and combines the Recent
Books and File Browser into a unified tabbed page called "My Library"
accessible from the Home screen.
## Features
### New Tab Bar Component
A flexible, reusable tab bar component added to `ScreenComponents` that
can be used throughout the application.
### New Scroll Indicator Component
A page position indicator for lists that span multiple pages.
**Features:**
- Up/down arrow indicators
- Current page fraction display (e.g., "1/3")
- Only renders when content spans multiple pages
### My Library Activity
A new unified view combining Recent Books and File Browser into a single
tabbed page.
**Tabs:**
- **Recent** - Shows recently opened books
- **Files** - Browse SD card directory structure
**Navigation:**
- Up/Down or Left/Right: Navigate through list items
- Left/Right (when first item selected): Switch between tabs
- Confirm: Open selected book or enter directory
- Back: Go up directory (Files tab) or return home
- Long press Back: Jump to root directory (Files tab)
**UI Elements:**
- Tab bar with selection indicator
- Scroll/page indicator on right side
- Side button hints (up/down arrows)
- Dynamic bottom button labels ("BACK" in subdirectories, "HOME" at
root)
## Tab Bar Usage
The tab bar component is designed to be reusable across different
activities. Here's how to use it:
### Basic Example
```cpp
#include "ScreenComponents.h"
void MyActivity::render() const {
renderer.clearScreen();
// Define tabs with labels and selection state
std::vector<TabInfo> tabs = {
{"Tab One", currentTab == 0}, // Selected when currentTab is 0
{"Tab Two", currentTab == 1}, // Selected when currentTab is 1
{"Tab Three", currentTab == 2} // Selected when currentTab is 2
};
// Draw tab bar at Y position 15, returns height of the tab bar
int tabBarHeight = ScreenComponents::drawTabBar(renderer, 15, tabs);
// Position your content below the tab bar
int contentStartY = 15 + tabBarHeight + 10; // Add some padding
// Draw content based on selected tab
if (currentTab == 0) {
renderTabOneContent(contentStartY);
} else if (currentTab == 1) {
renderTabTwoContent(contentStartY);
} else {
renderTabThreeContent(contentStartY);
}
renderer.displayBuffer();
}
```
Video Demo: https://share.cleanshot.com/P6NBncFS
<img width="250"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/07de4418-968e-4a88-9b42-ac5f53d8a832"
/>
<img width="250"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e40201ed-dcc8-4568-b008-cd2bf13ebb2a"
/>
<img width="250"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/73db269f-e629-4696-b8ca-0b8443451a05"
/>
---------
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
- Implements a fix to truncate chapter names that exceeds display width
* **What changes are included?**
- Implements a fix to truncate chapter names that exceeds display width
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
specific areas to focus on).
- Prior to the fix, if the book contains multiple chapters with names
longer than the display width, there is a noticeable delay when
scrolling through the list of chapters.
Serial output of the issue:
```
[25673] [ACT] Entering activity: EpubReaderChapterSelection
[25693] [GFX] !! Outside range (485, 65) -> (65, -6)
[25693] [GFX] !! Outside range (486, 65) -> (65, -7)
[25693] [GFX] !! Outside range (487, 65) -> (65, -8)
[25693] [GFX] !! Outside range (488, 65) -> (65, -9)
[25693] [GFX] !! Outside range (485, 66) -> (66, -6)
[25693] [GFX] !! Outside range (486, 66) -> (66, -7)
[25694] [GFX] !! Outside range (487, 66) -> (66, -8)
[25694] [GFX] !! Outside range (484, 67) -> (67, -5)
[25694] [GFX] !! Outside range (485, 67) -> (67, -6)
[25694] [GFX] !! Outside range (486, 67) -> (67, -7)
[25694] [GFX] !! Outside range (483, 68) -> (68, -4)
[25694] [GFX] !! Outside range (484, 68) -> (68, -5)
[25694] [GFX] !! Outside range (485, 68) -> (68, -6)
```
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## Summary
* Adds (optional) Hyphenation for English, French, German, Russian
languages
## Additional Context
* Included hyphenation dictionaries add approximately 280kb to the flash
usage (German alone takes 200kb)
* Trie encoded dictionaries are adopted from hypher project
(https://github.com/typst/hypher)
* Soft hyphens (and other explicit hyphens) take precedence over
dict-based hyphenation. Overall, the hyphenation rules are quite
aggressive, as I believe it makes more sense on our smaller screen.
---------
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## Summary
- Adds KOReader progress sync integration, allowing CrossPoint to sync
reading positions with other
KOReader-compatible devices
- Stores credentials securely with XOR obfuscation
- Uses KOReader's partial MD5 document hashing for cross-device book
matching
- Syncs position via percentage with estimated XPath for compatibility
# Features
- Settings: KOReader Username, Password, and Authenticate options
- Sync from chapters menu: "Sync Progress" option appears when
credentials are configured
- Bidirectional sync: Can apply remote progress or upload local progress
---------
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## Summary
* This builds upon the helpful PR
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/341, and
adds support for the setting to also apply to the XTC reader, which I
believed has just been missed and was not intentionally left out.
* XTC does not have chapter support yet, but it does skip 10 pages when
long-pressed, and so I think this is useful.
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## Summary
Adds a new "Long-press Chapter Skip" toggle in Settings to control
whether holding the side buttons skips chapters.
I kept accidentally triggering chapter skips while reading, which caused
me to lose my place in the middle of long chapters.
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks,
specific areas to focus on).
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Add support for reading plain text (.txt) files, enabling users to
browse, read, and track progress in TXT documents alongside existing
EPUB and XTC formats.
* **What changes are included?**
- New Txt library for loading and parsing plain text files
- New TxtReaderActivity with streaming page rendering using 8KB chunks
to handle large files without memory issues on ESP32-C3
- Page index caching system (index.bin) for instant re-open after sleep
or app restart
- Progress bar UI during initial file indexing (matching EPUB style)
- Word wrapping with proper UTF-8 support
- Cover image support for TXT files:
- Primary: image with same filename as TXT (e.g., book.jpg for book.txt)
- Fallback: cover.bmp/jpg/jpeg in the same folder
- JPG to BMP conversion using existing converter
- Sleep screen cover mode now works with TXT files
- File browser now shows .txt files
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
* Memory constraints: The streaming approach was necessary because
ESP32-C3 only has 320KB RAM. A 700KB TXT file cannot be loaded entirely
into memory, so we read 8KB chunks and build a page offset index
instead.
* Cache invalidation: The page index cache automatically invalidates
when file size, viewport width, or lines per page changes (e.g., font
size or orientation change).
* Performance: First open requires indexing (with progress bar),
subsequent opens load from cache instantly.
* Cover image format: PNG is detected but not supported for conversion
(no PNG decoder available). Only BMP and JPG/JPEG work.
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
* This PR adds a setting to (additionally) map the forward page turn
onto the powerbutton when in `EPUBReaderActivity` and powerbutton short
press is not mapped to sleep mode. I find the powerbutton to be exactly
where my thumb is while reading so it is very convenient to map the
forwardpage turn to that. Maybe Im not alone with this ^^
* **What changes are included?**
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks, specific areas to
focus on).
## Summary
Fixes https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/issues/233
## Additional Context
By disabling the Text Anti-Aliasing in the settings, you can get faster
black-and-white page turns that work exactly like the stock firmware,
instead of having an additional flash after rendering (see issue linked
above for example).
Tested on the X4 and confirmed working.
---------
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## Summary
Adds feature to file selection activity for better user navigation when
ascending folders. The activity now remembers the index of the parent
folder instead of always resetting to the first element.
I don't have any means of testing this, so if someone could test it
that'd be great
Resolves#259
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
* This PR adds a setting to control the top left and right margins of
the reader screen in 4 sizes (5, 10, 20, 40 pt?) and defaults to `SMALL`
which is equivalent to the fixed margin of 5 that was already in use
before.
* **What changes are included?**
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks, specific areas to
focus on).
---------
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## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?** (e.g., Fixes a bug in the user
authentication module, Implements the new feature for
file uploading.)
* **What changes are included?**
## Additional Context
* Add any other information that might be helpful for the reviewer
(e.g., performance implications, potential risks, specific areas to
focus on).
---------
Co-authored-by: ratedcounsel <hello@ratedcounsel.com>
Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Add a new user setting for paragraph alignment, instead of hard-coding
full justification.
* **What changes are included?**
One new line in the settings screen, with 4 options
(justify/left/center/right). Default is justified since that's what it
was already. I personally only wanted to disable justification and use
"left", but I included the other options for completeness since they
were already supported.
## Additional Context
Tested on my X4 and looks as expected for each alignment.
Co-authored-by: Maeve Andrews <maeve@git.mail.maeveandrews.com>
## Summary
* Update EpdFontFamily::Style to be u8 instead of u32 (saving 3 bytes
per word)
* Update layout width/height to be u16 from int
* Update page element count to be u16 from u32
* Update text block element count to be u16 from u32
* Bumped section bin version to version 8
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Fix file browser failing to navigate into subdirectories with non-ASCII
(Korean/Unicode) folder names.
* **What changes are included?**
- Enable UTF-8 long file names in SdFat (`USE_UTF8_LONG_NAMES=1`)
- Add directory validation before iterating files
- Add `rewindDirectory()` call for stability
## Additional Context
## Summary
* Swap from Aleo to Bookerly for wider glyph support
* Swap from Space Grotesk to a small Noto Sans
## Additional Context
* 0.11.0 swapped to Aleo which has a few issues (things like Cyrillic
support for eg)
This parses the guide section in the content.opf for text/start
references and jumps to this on first open of the book.
Currently, this behavior will be repeated in case the reader manually
jumps to Chapter 0 and then re-opens the book. IMO, this is an
acceptable edge case (for which I couldn't see a good fix other than to
drag a "first open" boolean around).
---------
Co-authored-by: Sam Davis <sam@sjd.co>
Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
* Add setting for line spacing to adjust space between lines
* Aleo is already a bit tighter than Noto Sans and Open Dyslexic, so
have adjusted the values to match, this can be tweaked in the future
## Summary
* Show previous title for unnamed spines
* The spec is a little unclear, but there are plenty of cases where
chapters are split up in parts and should show the previous chapter's
title
* List TOC items instead of spine items in chapter select
* Bump `BOOK_CACHE_VERSION` to `2` to force regeneration of spine item's
TOC indexes
## Summary
* Swap to updated SDCardManager which uses SdFat
* Add exFAT support
* Swap to using FsFile everywhere
* Use newly exposed `SdMan` macro to get to static instance of
SDCardManager
* Move a bunch of FsHelpers up to SDCardManager
## Summary
- **What is the goal of this PR?** Add chapter selection support to the
XTC reader activity, including parsing chapter metadata from XTC files.
- **What changes are included?** Implemented XTC chapter parsing and
exposure in the XTC library, added a chapter selection activity for XTC,
integrated it into XtcReaderActivity, and normalized chapter page
indices by shifting them to 0-based.
## Additional Context
- The reader uses 0-based page indexing (first page = 0), but the XTC
chapter table appears to be 1-based (first page = 1), so chapter
start/end pages are shifted down by 1 during parsing.
## Summary
**What is the goal of this PR?**
Adds a setting to swap the front buttons. The default functionality are:
Back/Confirm/Left/Right. When this setting is enabled they become:
Left/Right/Back/Confirm. This makes it more comfortable to use when
holding in your right hand since your thumb can more easily rest on the
next button. The original firmware has a similar setting.
**What changes are included?**
- Add the new setting.
- Create a mapper to dynamically switch the buttons based on the
setting.
- Use mapper on the various activity screens.
- Update the button hints to reflect the swapped buttons.
## Additional Context
Full disclosure: I used Codex CLI to put this PR together, but did
review it to make sure it makes sense.
Also tested on my device:
https://share.cleanshot.com/k76891NY
## Summary
* Consolidate chapter page data into single file
* Header structure of the file stays the same, following the page count,
we now put a LUT offset
* The page data is all then appended to this file
* Finally the LUT is appended to the end of the file, and the page count
is updated
* This will also significantly improve the duration of cache cleanup
which takes a while to scan the directory and cleanup content
* Remove page file version as it's all tied up into the section file now
* Bumped section file version to 7
* Moved section content into sub directory
* Updated docs
## Additional Context
* Benchmarks:
* Generating 74 pages of content from a chapter in Jade Legacy took:
* master: 6,229ms
* this PR: 1,305ms
* Speedup of 79%
* Generating 207 pages of content from Livesuit book:
* With progress bar UI updates:
* master: 24,250ms
* this PR: 8,063ms
* Speedup of 67%
* Without progress bar UI updates:
* master: 13,055ms
* this PR: 3,600ms
* Speedup of 72%
## Summary
* **What is the goal of this PR?**
Add support for XTC (XTeink X4 native) ebook format, which contains
pre-rendered 480x800 1-bit bitmap pages optimized for e-ink displays.
* **What changes are included?**
- New `lib/Xtc/` library with XtcParser for reading XTC files
- XtcReaderActivity for displaying XTC pages on e-ink display
- XTC file detection in FileSelectionActivity
- Cover BMP generation from first XTC page
- Correct XTG page header structure (22 bytes) and bit polarity handling
## Additional Context
- XTC files contain pre-rendered bitmap pages with embedded status bar
(page numbers, progress %)
- XTG page header: 22 bytes (magic + dimensions + reserved fields +
bitmap size)
- Bit polarity: 0 = black, 1 = white
- No runtime text rendering needed - pages display directly on e-ink
- Faster page display compared to EPUB since no parsing/rendering
required
- Memory efficient: loads one page at a time (48KB per page)
- Tested with XTC files generated from https://x4converter.rho.sh/
- Verified correct page alignment and color rendering
- Please report any issues if you test with XTC files from other
sources.
---------
Co-authored-by: Dave Allie <dave@daveallie.com>
## Summary
* Use font ascender height for baseline offset
* Previously was using font height, but when rendering the font (even
from y = 0), there would be a lot of top margin
* Font would also go below the "bottom of the line" as we were using the
full font height as the baseline
## Additional Context
* This caused some text to move around, I've fixed everything I can
* Notably it moves the first line of font a little closer to the top of
the page