Paperback is a lightweight, fast, and accessible ebook/document
reader designed to make reading fun and seamless, regardless of the file
format being used or the user’s reading preferences.
2 System Requirements
Paperback currently runs on Windows 10/11. It’s possible it runs on
earlier versions of Windows too and/or can be built in such a way that
it will, but this hasn’t been tested yet. macOS support is planned for a
future version.
3 Features:
Incredibly fast and standalone.
Simple tabbed interface, allowing you to open as many documents as
you want at once.
Saves your cursor position across every document you open.
Optionally remembers what documents you had open when you closed the
program, and restores them on next launch.
Designed with screen reader users in mind.
Ability to navigate through epub sections, as well as pages in a
PDF. More navigation units, such as HTML headings, are planned.
Includes a robust find dialog, including features like history and
regular expression support.
Usable from the Windows open with dialog.
4 Currently supported
filetypes:
Paperback supports several common file formats, with more planned for
future releases.
Epub 2/3 books.
HTML documents.
Markdown documents.
PDF documents.
Text documents.
5 Hotkeys
Paperback’s user interface was designed specifically with keyboard
and screen reader users in mind. As such, every action has an associated
hotkey. Below, you’ll find a list of all of them, grouped by menu
structure. ### File menu * Ctrl+O: open a document. * Ctrl+F4: close the
currently focused document. * Ctrl+Shift+F4: close all currently opened
documents. * Ctrl+E: export the currently focused document to plain
text.
5.1 Go menu
Ctrl+F: show the find dialog.
F3: find next.
Shift+F3: find previous.
Ctrl+G: bring up the go to dialog, allowing you to go to either a
line number or a percentage.
Ctrl+P: brings up a dialog allowing you to specify a page number to
jump to, if the document supports pages.
Left bracket: go to the previous epub section.
Right bracket: go to the next epub section.
P: go to the next page.
Shift+P: go to the previous page.
5.2 Tools menu
Ctrl+W: view the word count of the currently focused document.
Ctrl+I: bring up the document info dialog.
Ctrl+T: show the table of contents.
Ctrl+Comma: bring up the options dialog.
5.3 About menu
Ctrl+F1: show the about dialog.
F1: pop up this readme file in your default web browser.
6 Changelog
6.1 Version 0.21
Added the total number of pages to the page label in the go to page
dialog. #46.
Allow tabbing from the document content to your list of opened
documents. #19.
Fixed the heading keystrokes sometimes opening recent documents if
you had enough of them. #47.
Paperback will now remove unnecessary soft hyphens from text
output.
Fixed heading navigation sometimes putting you on the wrong
character.
Added PDF document support, including the ability to navigate
between pages! #12, #37.
Added keystrokes for navigating by headings in HTML content,
including epub books and markdown documents. These keystrokes were
designed to work similar to a screen reader. #3.
Fixed loading epubs with URL-encoded filenames in their manifests.
#20.
Fixed loading epub 3 books with XHTML embedded inside of them. #35.
A message is now spoken if the document doesn’t support a table of
contents or sections, as opposed to the menu items being disabled. #39.
Added a recent documents menu! It currently stores your last 10
opened documents, and pressing enter on one will open it for reading. #32.
Completely rewrote the Find dialog, making it much simpler to use,
while also adding a history of your last 25 searches and regular
expression support! #21.
Previously opened documents are now remembered across application
restarts. This is configurable through the new options item in the tools
menu. #18.
Added shift+f1 to open the readme directly in Paperback itself.