Book Detail and Management
Book detail page is both the listening entry and the primary admin workspace for metadata and chapter structure.
User Features
1. Information Display
- Metadata: cover, title, author, narrator, year, and duration stats.
- Description: expandable long summary.
- Reading state:
- Unread: show Start.
- In progress: show Continue with chapter hint and percentage.
- Completed: mark as finished.
2. Interactions
- Add to Favorites: Add the book to your "Favorites" list.
- Resume Listening: Jump straight to where you left off.
- Offline Download: Cache the entire book or selected chapters to your device for offline listening.
- Bookmark Management: View and manage all audio bookmarks for the book, and quickly jump to specific plot points.
- Install to Home Screen: Supports adding the app to your device's home screen, automatically caching resources so visited pages can be accessed offline.
Admin Features
Click top-right Edit to open the book editor. The cover stays square.
1. Metadata Editing
- Edit title, author, narrator, year, description, and category tags in Basic.
- Online scraping previews cover and metadata before you save.
2. Chapter Management
- In Chapters, save manual order, restore the default order, or preview AI organization before applying it.
- Per-chapter renaming is not available in this stage.
3. Subtitle Recognition
- Recognize Subtitles opens the Subtitles tab in the editor.
- Review coverage, start, resume, or stop transcription for this book, and proofread generated text.
- Global jobs and service setup live in Subtitle Management. The player only reads subtitles.
4. Deletion
- Safe Recycle Bin: Deleting a book moves its data to the recycle bin, allowing for easy recovery. Delete Book appears only in Basic.
- Original File Safety: Deleting a book will never affect the original audio files on your Cloud drive or NAS.