Librique 1.1

AI translation

A selected passage can now be translated with a language model: Anthropic (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), OpenAI (Terra, Sol), or Google Gemini (Argon, Flash). Intelligent translation is turned on in Settings, under Translation. When it is off, the passage is translated by Apple’s built-in on-device translator, as before.

• The model produces a literary translation that takes the paragraph and the book into account: it receives the book’s title, authors and language, the paragraph, and the selected passage.
• If the passage contains an idiom, wordplay or an allusion that is lost in translation, a short note follows the translation.
• Follow-up questions about the passage can be asked; answers come in the translation language. The conversation is not saved.
• An API key from the chosen provider is required. Requests are billed at the provider’s rates.
• The key is stored in the keychain and is available on other devices that have iCloud password sync turned on.
• Before connecting, the app asks for permission to send the selected text and questions to the chosen provider. The text goes directly to the provider; the developer does not receive it.

How to connect: see Help, Translation.

Window with instructions

When a book opens, a window shows a tap diagram: where to turn pages forward and back, where to open the menu, and how to open an illustration full screen. The Don’t show again checkbox turns the window off. More in Help, Reading.

Layout

• The bottom margin is measured from the page number line, and the top margin can be removed entirely.
• Stress marks sit above the letter.
• Tables support cells merged across rows and the right border.
• Poetry and code samples keep their spaces and line breaks; code is set in a monospaced font.
• The line spacing setting works with all fonts.
• The Iowan font has been added.
• Tapping the cover turns the page.

Keyboard

The keyboard can be dismissed by swiping down on every screen.

Questions and bug reports can be sent to [email protected].