What changed in Solaread

A maintenance release for the reader, plus the new Solaread mark.

• Your glosses stay after a reload. Books that had been annotated could come back blank after a reload, or lose their glosses overnight, while the reader quietly re-translated them. The reader now recognises its own translations reliably, so an annotated book opens annotated.
• No more books stuck on "Syncing translations". A book prepared on one device could get stuck on that message on another. It now picks up the finished translation and opens.
• Double-click gives the right word. Double-clicking several words in a row could show the first word's translation for every one of them. Each word now gets its own answer.
• Cloud sync no longer stalls on old vocabulary records. A rare conflict between an older and a newer vocabulary assessment stopped the sync from finishing; it completes again.
• A calmer bookshelf. The bookshelf, My Notes and the word list share one heading style and start from the same place; the duplicated sub-headings and decorative icons on empty pages are gone.
• The new Solaread mark. A sun over an open book, in the sidebar, the pricing page, the browser tab and the desktop app icon.

Solaread now has a proper front door and a fixed address for the reader.

• solaread.com is the product site. It explains what Solaread does, compares the plans, and carries the FAQ, this changelog and the blog.
• The reader lives at app.solaread.com. Bookmarks, the Chrome extension and the payment return page all use the new address. Nothing changes inside your library.
• Translation is back after the DeepSeek V4.1 rollout. A provider-side change on 9 September stopped every new book's translations from completing. The fix shipped today; books imported since then will prepare again when you open them.
• Local Beta and the fixed Beta site start correctly again with the live billing configuration.

The home page now shows the reader the way it looks, not the way we describe it.

• Four annotation languages side by side. The same English passage with glosses in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and French, captured from the reader.
• The popover, where it belongs. The hover explanation in the reading sample now sits under the term it explains, and a short recording shows it appear and leave with the mouse.
• Chrome extension, up front. One click sends an article, an HTML page, an EPUB, TXT or PDF link, or a YouTube transcript to your shelf. It is in beta testing and coming to the Chrome Web Store.
• Notes with completion. The Scholar section shows a rendering of the notes panel with a completion drawn from the page you are reading. It is labelled as a rendering: that panel is still in development.
• Reader Plus and original books. The pricing page now says what Reader Plus is for, including a library of original-language books licensed from publishers, which we are in discussion about.

This release brings the first paid plan and the sync that makes a second device useful.

• Scholar Plus is available. It unlocks AI translation and PDF processing without limits and opens Scholar mode, the notes panel beside the reader. Compare the plans on the pricing page and subscribe from Settings inside the app.
• Cloud sync now carries your library, reading position, highlights and notes between devices, and restores books you imported elsewhere.
• Long documents scroll smoothly. The reader measures only what is on screen, so large PDFs and long books no longer stutter, and your position is restored exactly on reopen.
• Book language detection looks at the body of the text instead of the first block, so papers that open with a DOI or an author list are no longer asked to confirm their language.
• Vocabulary test was rebuilt as one continuous flow: 20 general words plus 8 per professional field, with a live estimate of how long it will take.

A stability release. The translation, PDF parsing and prediction services were repackaged so a missing shared dependency can no longer take them offline, and a build check now catches that class of problem before anything is published.