Bookworm 2026.2

What's new in 2026.2

What's Changed
Localization Updates
- Finnish: Updated the translation, documentation, and user guide. (@jkinnunen, #372, #378, #382, #411)
- Spanish: Updated the translation for the 2026 message catalog. (@ericdq, #371)
- Vietnamese: Added the Vietnamese translation and user guide. (@nguyenanhduc09, #375)
- Traditional Chinese: Added the zh_TW translation. (@PeterDaveHello, #388)
- Simplified Chinese: Updated the user guide and message catalog, exposed additional user-facing messages for translation, and translated the new strings. (@cary-rowen, #399, 0962a9c, 0ccb20a, 5f11553)
- English documentation: Updated the README and user guide to cover the current feature set. (@cary-rowen, #397)
Features & Enhancements
- Added embedded image navigation for HTML, Markdown, EPUB, MOBI, AZW, and AZW3 documents. (@cary-rowen, #377, #381, #386, #395, #396)
- Images can be opened with Ctrl+Enter in a viewer with zoom, copy, save, and keyboard close actions. Available shortcuts are shown in the toolbar tooltips.
- Web documents can open remote images.
- Navigation can play an optional image sound and, by default, includes images with empty alternative text.
- Added AZW file support to the MOBI document handler. (@cary-rowen, cfac438)
- Migrated browseable messages and table views from the legacy HTML dialog to WebView. (@cary-rowen, #400)
- Retains tables, MathML, ARIA attributes, and safe presentation styles, with text wrapping, keyboard actions, and external link handling.
- Independent message windows now close with Bookworm, and empty table captions no longer produce malformed window titles.
Reading, Speech & OCR
- Replaced the OneCore speech engine's neosynth dependency with PyWinRT. (@cary-rowen, #401)
- Fixed voice selection, language switching, and restoration of the active voice profile.
- Fixed playback, highlighting, paragraph navigation, and continuous reading across pages and sections.
- Improved automatic OCR during continuous reading: following pages are prepared in advance, reading waits for OCR when needed, obsolete results no longer move focus, and canceling a dialog no longer resets the open book's OCR state. (@cary-rowen, #402)
- Windows OCR now uses PyWinRT directly instead of docrpy and preserves line breaks in recognized text. (@cary-rowen, #403)
Document Handling & Navigation
- Fixed search and search-result navigation. (@cary-rowen, #379, #380) …

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