Introducing ZeroBooks Reader: an accessible book, document, and audio reader with a one-time purchase

Is there a way to set any of these settings to work per document so for example, the setting to read by line is there a way to make that to where it just works for the particular document that you’re reading and not for every single document

Hi,
I started using ZeroBooks today. I'm mainly planning to use it for audiobooks, but I like it so far. I think more granular headset controls would be great, for example, let me skip back 30 seconds with the standard headset gesture, and forward 30 seconds with the standard forward gesture. Right now, it skips back and forward by chapter, which is fine... as the app's default, lol. But a person should be able to set it, I'm rarely in front of my phone when listening to a book, I always have a headset or bluetooth speaker on, so it's just easier to push those controls, plus, with those controls enabled, I don't have to unlock my phone, find the back or forward by time button, and miss half the book while doing it, lol. That's my biggest gripe with the BARD mobile app, but what BARD mobile is or isn't, does or doesn't have aren't relevant to ZeroBooks, lol. Plus, I love the name, Zero is my fave number, lol.

Its really urgent for me I was a prominent user of Seeing AI but what happened that the app crashed recently? I used it to scan my documents accurately my textbooks and when it’s my exams right now the app crashes while I scam and all that effort that I put into it just goes into water so I wanted to know if this document reader will help me scan documents and save it or export it
Please reply as soon as possible for it’s really urgent for me

Yes, being able to skip backward or forward a small unit of time is my most important feature for book players. I've complained to NLS about the defect in the barred player, and I have no use for this app if it doesn't have the feature. To bad, because I need a new app that includes OCR for PDF's. I'm tired of paying the voice dream subscription fee when they don't do any updates or fixes related to voices, or to Kindle reading controls.

Hi team,
First of all, I want to compliment you on developing such a great app. Even though I had previously purchased Voice Dream Reader, I find Zero Books Reader significantly better, and I am fully switching over to your application.
As a dedicated user who relies heavily on VoiceOver, I would like to offer a few suggestions to make the reading experience even smoother:
* Suppress the "Playing" VoiceOver Announcement on Playback:
When activating the Play button, VoiceOver currently announces "playing." Announcing "paused" upon pausing makes sense, but announcing "playing" when playback starts is redundant because the book audio begins immediately. More importantly, this announcement triggers audio ducking, causing the book's audio to duck right as it starts. Voice Dream Reader avoids this by remaining silent on play, and adopting that behavior here would greatly improve playback initiation.
* Prevent Double Speech While Scrubbing During Active Playback:
Moving the cursor line by line or sentence by sentence works well when paused. However, if audio is already actively playing, navigating forward or backward should simply move the playback cursor without triggering VoiceOver to speak the text. When VoiceOver reads the line while the built-in reader is also speaking, it results in two simultaneous voices clashing. VoiceOver should speak the text under the cursor only when playback is paused.
* Option for Cloud / Online OCR:
The current on-device OCR is solid, but it occasionally runs into accuracy issues on complex or lower-quality scanned pages. Adding an optional online/cloud-based OCR engine alongside the existing scanner would be a fantastic enhancement for handling difficult documents. More Granular Playback Speed Controls: Please consider adding finer speed adjustment steps (such as 0.05x or 0.10x increments) instead of the current 0.25x jumps (1.25x, 1.50x, 1.75x). A more granular step size would offer greater flexibility, allowing users to fine-tune the listening pace precisely to their personal comfort.

Thank you for your hard work and commitment to accessibility!

Hi, thanks so much for sharing this! It seems like a perfect alternative to the other apps available and I love it already! Would you be able to implement a way to customize read punctuation? For example, I like to hear quotation marks, parenthesis, and emdashes. I tried to use the pronunciation dictionary, but putting punctuation in as the in-book text just blanks out when it's saved. I can do this with Voice Dream, so hoping it can be added as it's probably one of the only things keeping me on that app at this point lol.
Edit: I also found that if I delete a pronunciation rule and hit the add button, the app crashes. I'm on an iPhone 16 Pro.

I'm also wondering if there's an exact list of supported formats that you can share? Are audio files supported, along with text?

Sorry, one last thing that I noticed-is there a way to pause and play using one press of the headphone button? I understand that we can skip forward and backward, but it would be nice to be able to play/pause as well so we don't have to keep accessing the screen to magic tap.
Edit: I see mentioned int he settings that play/pause should work with a single press, but it's not working with my Airpod Pro 3's.
Thanks again for this! It has so many great features!

Hi,
m4b's are supported, and they play, but I can't get it to recognize that they're chapterized. Other book apps recognize the chapters. I think it's a bug.