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Update: v1.0.2
Another small update to Voluminous on this grey Monday morning here in London. As well as a smattering of little fixes, there are a couple of new features:
- There's improved support for controlling Voluminous with the keyboard, in particular, being able to delete books you've finished with by using the delete key (as well as the Edit → Delete menu option).
- If you bring up the Book Info panel, the author's name now has a small magnifying-glass icon next to it. If you click this, you'll be taken to their biography on Wikipedia.
Update: v1.0.6
We released a new version of Voluminous today, version 1.0.6. It's just a small update, mostly Fixamatron stuff, but we also fixed a couple of small bugs and added a new feature: My Bookshelf.
When you click My Bookshelf, it filters the book catalogue down to just the books you have in your collection — the same list normally shown in the sidebar, but whereas the sidebar is arranged to bring the books you're currently reading to the top, My Bookshelf works the same way the catalogue normally does, so you can look up specific titles or just browse your personal collection by author, subject, etc.
Not finding your books?
A quick tip about searching for books in Voluminous: the search box contains a small magnifying-glass icon, and if you click it, a menu pops up listing the types of search you can do. With this, you can choose to search only the titles of books, or their authors' names.
Let's say you're looking for the works of Edgar Allen Poe. If you just type "poe" into the search box, you'll find about 500 books of poems and poetry, as well as those by Poe. But if you change the search to "Authors", you'll find just what you wanted.
Update: v1.0.3
Here's the update mentioned last week. Since the Fixamatron has been quiet of late, it's mostly focused on adding features and polishing the user-interface a little. Two notable improvements are designed to make on-screen reading easier for tired eyes:
- You can now zoom the text size up or down
- In full-screen mode, you can now change a book's margins, just by dragging them to a new width
Welcome to Voluminous
Hello! Well, the big news around here is that we've launched Voluminous 1.0 — thanks to all the beta testers — and to everyone else, we hope you enjoy using it!
Snow Leopard Compatibility
Just a quick note for those of you who've rushed ahead to Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"): Version 1.0.6 of Voluminous is not compatible, but we've brought out a new version, 1.0.7, which does work under Snow Leopard.
If you've not yet upgraded to Snow Leopard, but intend to, we recommend updating Voluminous first. If you're already using Snow Leopard and find that Voluminous doesn't start, you won't be able to use the built-in auto-updater. Simply download the new "free trial" version from our website — you should find that when you install and run it, it's automatically registered with the same details as before.
Update: v1.0.5
Yup, Voluminous 1.0.5 is out. We were going to release this on Monday — but we thought people might be a bit distracted at the time, and since the beta testers haven't reported any problems, we're going to let you all get your hands on it today.
We think it's a particularly good update:
- You can now add Sticky Notes to the books in your library. The first sentence of the note is used as its title, and you can jump straight to it from the book's Sticky Note popup-menu — so you can use them as extra bookmarks as well as for annotating your books.
- Also new is Chapter Skip, mentioned previously. If you haven't read that news post already, please do, as it has some information about what's going on behind the scenes, and why you might sometimes see things other than chapter headings in the list.
- You can resize the sidebar, which is most useful when dealing with old-fashioned books in a series: "Book With A Very Long Title Well We Call It A Title It's More Of An Introductory Paragraph Really But These Things Just Used To Be The Way It Was Done — Part One."
- Improved the readability of headings in the Autumn/AutumnBare styles.
- And of course more book fixes, including Φθινόπωρο by Konstantinos Chatzopoulos, and Paródia ao primeiro canto dos Lusíadas de Camões por quatro estudantes de Évora em 1589.
Update: Fixamatron 0001
We've released a small update to Voluminous this evening. It fixes a few little issues that people have got in touch with us about:
- A small bug when showing/hiding the Topic Browser has been fixed.
- The Topic Browser is also now resizable, so you can choose to fit more topics into your window, or more books, as you wish.
- We've also implemented our first batch of Fixamatron updates.
Current Plans
Hey all! We've been kinda quiet the past few days, I know. Well, we haven't received any Fixamatron reports in a while, so that's given us time to work on larger projects — new features and longer-term goals.
We're planning to release another minor update in a couple of weeks, which would bring a small collection of enhancements, and then a bigger announcement in perhaps mid-June or early July. We don't really like to talk about new features before they're ready — because we hate to disappoint people if it turns out not to be possible for some reason — but I think it's safe to say that adding more control over the size of text is at the top of our list.
Update: Fixamatron 0002
We've released another small update to Voluminous this afternoon. It's mostly just to address some issues with specific books that were reported to us via the Fixamatron, including Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
A quick note on something we couldn't fix: A couple of books — Le Grand Meaulnes and Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra — were reported to us for having faulty accents.
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