Now available on iOS: EPUB and webpage snapshot annotation and PDF metadata retrieval

dstillman
We've just released a new version of Zotero for iOS that adds two major new features.

You should receive the update automatically, or you can update now from the App Store.
  • marcodepp
    This is great :) thanks for the hardwork. Does it remember the reading position? this would allow to use zotero as a ebook reader !
  • 232v
    Is there currently a way to create webpage snapshots on iOS?
  • dstillman
    @232v: No, not currently, sorry.
  • dstillman
    @marcodepp: Yes, it should remember reading position across devices.
  • foss-
    This is outstanding news and a highly welcome change. Since I have mostly moved away from Apples mobile operating systems, hoping Android will catch up with epub / webpage snapshot support. Thanks for your work.
  • poettli
    (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/111418/epub-support-on-android)
  • 232v
    @dstillman: Thanks for the clarification, and for the great update. Is creating webpage snapshots on iOS a planned feature?
  • poettli
    (https://github.com/zotero/zotero-ios/issues/597#issuecomment-3483800513)
  • i460
    Hi,

    Thanks very much for this upgrade. Reading ePub files in iOS is the last step to completely moving my research workflow to Zotero!

    I was really looking for it, so, once I read the release notes, I dove into a book to check how it works. Even though the feature is still a little buggy with hiding menus —I got locked in and couldn't exit with the bars hidden— I'm really enjoying it.

    There are two features I'm really missing, though:
    1. The black theme from Zotero Desktop. Dark grey is too bright—specially in a shared bed!—and full black is gentler on the battery. Please, please, please!
    2. A location reference. Just a page counter like Zotero Desktop in the footer would be fine, but some reference is needed. The nicest implementation of a navigation reference I've seen is the footer bar in Yomu Reader:
      https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u34511/xfg6vp73hdqj8sd7to66.jpg
    Many thanks and looking forward to what's next!



  • anbuwi
    This is great. Thanks for your excellent work and adding this feature in IOS. I was looking forward to this for a long time. It's making Zotero even more useful and puts it on track to be used as an ebook reader, making all others obsolete.

    In the future it would be great to have the option under appearance to increase the font size and for the setting to be saved and maintained. It can be increased already, I am aware, but font size/zooming in is not maintained and has to be done again each time an EPUB is opened.

    Also it would make Zotero much more convenient to be used as an ebook reader (this goes beyond only IOS) if there was a history of recently viewed/opened entries/files, in particular EPUB (and PDF). At the moment, as a workaround, I am using tags to keep track of publications I currently read. A history would be so much better.

    +1 on the location reference mentioned before too.

    Again, great work, and thank you!
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