# Read My Book

Version: 0.4.2

Offline EPUB/PDF reader with Text-to-Speech for Android (Boox friendly).

Features

• Import EPUB and PDF via Storage Access Framework
• Parse EPUB spine and table of contents (nav.xhtml or toc.ncx)
• Chapter list screen with selectable chapters (EPUB)
• Text-to-Speech reading with sentence preview and controls
• Resume position (chapter + sentence index)
• Foreground service for background TTS playback
• Display book cover on start and reading screens

Version History

0.4.2

• Improve TTS pacing on slow devices (sentence-by-sentence queueing, smarter splits)
• Reduce memory use by storing sentence lists for playback/preview
• Fix adaptive icon sizing and rendering across launchers

0.4.1

• Update app name, icon, and start screen logo

0.4

• Add PDF import and Text-to-Speech reading

0.3.0

• Display book cover on start and reading screens
• Improve TTS chunking to reduce long pauses

0.2.1

• Add Settings page for TTS rate/pitch (persisted)
• Add About page with version + GitHub link
• UI cleanups on start and reading screens

0.2.0

• Move TTS playback into a foreground service for background reading
• Add notification permissions for Android 13+

0.1.1

• Improve HTML to text cleanup for chapter content

0.1.0

• Initial app flow with start screen and chapter list
• EPUB TOC parsing for human-readable chapter titles
• TTS reading with sentence preview and resume position

Planned Next

• Better TTS voices (voice picker, offline voice checks)
• Notification playback controls (Read/Stop/Next/Prev)
• Persist TTS voice selection
• Resume screen polish (show saved position clearly)
• Multi-book library with last 5 recent books
• Resume cards per book (title, chapter, sentence)
• Bookmark/save position per book
• Chapter search and filter
• Sleep timer (15/30/60 minutes)
• Skip by paragraph or sentence count
• "Now Reading" header with chapter title
• Export/import reading state (backup)

Future Extensibility

• Swapping TTS backends (local vs API)
• Future formats (PDF, Markdown, HTML)
• Text-to-audio quality improvements
• Smarter chunking (sentence/paragraph aware, not raw length)
• Optional normalization (footnotes, references, page numbers)
• Voice presets per book or genre
• Optional semantic indexing of books (future: concept navigation)
• "Explain this passage" hooks (offline LLM later)
• Voice change for quotations

Build

./gradlew assembleDebug

Test

./gradlew test

Run

• Open the project in Android Studio
• Click Run ▶ on a device or emulator