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What’s new

What changed on Library Across, week by week. For what’s planned next, see Coming soon.

Week of November 9

  • Why Bibles differ: the New Testament verses some Bibles leave out (Matthew 17:21, Acts 8:37…) and the passages they split on (the end of Mark, John 7:53–8:11, 1 John 5:7), the KJV, WEB and ASV side by side with a short note on why. A small mark under those verses in the reader links there.
  • Themes: 67 scripture themes (forgiveness, the flood, exile, mercy, death…), each traced across every tradition and the Library's books, side by side, and 44 Library themes (coming of age, revenge, voyages at sea, ghosts…) with the books that carry each one most. A verse or paragraph that is one of a theme's strongest passages shows it in Cross references.
  • Scriptures and Library: two sides in one app, with a small switch at the top. Each side lists its own shelves, and search and cross references stay on their side unless you include the other.
  • Search every book in the Library at once: which books mention a whale, a lighthouse or a dragon, with the chapters to open.
  • At the end of a Library book, “If you liked this…” suggests the books most like it.
  • A thin progress bar shows how far you are through a chapter, with the minutes left. Library books read as one long scroll.
  • Cross references now link books to books, and scriptures to the closest passages in the Library.
  • Thousands of small leftovers in the books tidied (stray underscores, margin notes, picture captions, accents), and 50 long book names shortened.
  • Freethought moved to the Library, next to Literature.
  • The tour has two new steps: the Scriptures and Library switch, and what's coming next.

Week of November 2

  • Literature: over 1,000 public-domain novels, poems, plays, children's books and non-fiction, with search inside every book.
  • Freethought: 39 public-domain books in six shelves.
  • The I Ching, all 64 hexagrams, in James Legge's 1882 translation.
  • Words mode: pronunciations for Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese words, and Russian, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic words letter by letter.
  • Ask AI: an “In depth” switch for longer answers.
  • “Studied it again” for chapters you re-read, with re-reading badges.
  • Progress, goals, badges, sync codes and study groups.
  • Offline downloads: keep chosen languages and versions on your device, with their recorded audio.
  • A guided tour, continuous scroll into the next chapter, red-letter words of Jesus, and word lookup in nine languages.
  • A “Send feedback” form in the menu, About and every verse's menu.
  • Many new texts: the Quran, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Hadith, the Pali Canon, the Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita and more.
  • Read-along with recorded voices that keep playing with the screen off.

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