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Updates regarding Patreon posts

Paperback has been getting unwanted attention of an anti-piracy firm because of which we have to take down all the content on the social media platforms (namely Twitter and YouTube) that show any serialised manga, this includes thumbnails and chapter pages.Going forward we will be taking necessary p...

App Preview - April 2021

It has been a year since Paperback initially launched, here is how far the app has come.But we're not stopping here, we have a lot of features planned for this year that will only further enhance the experience of using Paperback. Here are some of the features you can expect this year Local devi...

Backlogged messages

First and foremost, my apologies to everyone who has recently messaged for support on Patreon and haven't gotten a reply.The reason why that has happened is becuase of the sheer number of messages being received and the way Patreon functions, it takes way too long for messages to load and the in...

Status Update

It's been a while since I've done something like this, huh. So let's discuss the state of the app at the moment and where things are headed.As of version 0.3.0-b11.1.0 the app is in a state where I would consider it to be pretty stable, there are a few bugs here and there and some places...

Beta Release v0.3.0-b11.0.22

After a long wait, it's finally here. This release fixes a host bugs with the last version and overall improves on the stability and reading experience.iOS 14 - A botched releaseLike many others, iOS 14's release blindsided Paperback's stability for quite some time, and it seems that a m...

Apple Developer account and App Store release

Paperback finally has an Apple Developer account now thanks to one of the Discord server members and Patron Sirus#0721 and with that, the first App Store release is available for everyone to download here.Going forward, all beta builds will be pushed to TestFlight exclusively. There may be a signifi...

Patron Release v0.3.0-b8

Following the approval of an Apple Dev account, the latest build (b8.1.2) has been pushed to TestFlight. Going forward, all beta builds will be pushed to TestFlight exclusively.v0.3.0-b8 includes the following features: Chapter downloading Seamless chapter continuation in Paged reader Light backgrou...

Patron Release v0.3.0-b7

The 7th beta of the 0.3.0 version is now available to download for all Patrons!The big take-aways of beta 7 are the "Continue reading" support Full Library backups Ability to hide homepage sections from a sourceThe next beta should contain working downloads along with a host of bug fixes, fo...

Website and multiple sources

In the past half month, I have started to implement the support for community developed manga source extensions. However, due to initial goals of having MangaDex as the exclusive source, a lot of features were baked in to work solely with MD, this has caused an entire rebuild of the foundation of th...

Name change, current state of the app and plans going forward .

I haven't been active on here as much as I'd like mainly because of the insane amount of work that I've had to do in the past month or so. The Discord blew up and the Public releases added to the fire. I would highly recommend everyone to join the Discord, it's the fastest and the pr...

Chapter Downloading

Changelog: Implemented Chapter downloading Added bulk options Improved performance issues with chapter list when chapter was downloading Implemented automatic Save/Resume for pages if the application is killed

Update 8

Changelog: Added support for using the app with a slow or no connection (no chapter downloading yet, next update for sure). Manga details for followed mangas are stored offline so you can view the manga page with slow or no internet. Chapters are now synced with MD even if you don't have the man...